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The startup Elorian launched its first model, Glimpse, built to reason with images rather than only about them. In Elorian's own evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning. It also reaches competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
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The app-building platform Replit changed its default model provider. According to CEO Amjad Masad, OpenAI replaces Anthropic as the default choice. Claude still remains available to customers on the platform.
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After backlash, Meta is again updating its terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. The specific wording no longer appears on the commercial terms page.
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Nvidia introduced its RTX Spark N1X processor, a powerful Arm-based chip for laptops and small desktops. It aims to rival the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. The Verge has spent a week testing several laptops built on this new platform.
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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity. According to the report, the agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
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