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AI music startup Suno doubles its valuation to $5.4 billion while fighting major record labels in court

AI music startup Suno has raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation. That's double its valuation from just seven months ago. Bond Capital led the round, with participation from IVP, Forerunner, ...
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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering

Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model. According to Ideogram, the new features include native 2K resolution, transparent backgrounds, precise layout ...
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Nous Research releases Hermes Desktop, an open-source AI agent for every platform

Nous Research has released Hermes Desktop, an open-source AI agent app under the MIT license. The desktop app is now available as a public preview for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The agent runs across ...
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OpenAI models now available on Amazon Web Services

OpenAI is making its GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 language models, along with its Codex coding tool, available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The models run on Amazon Bedrock in both commercial and ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Google unveiled the new Coral Board at Google I/O - a compact single-board computer for on-device AI. The board features the Coral NPU, an open-source machine learning unit built on the RISC-V ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra becomes the smartest open US model, but China still leads Nemotron 3 Ultra lands in the "most attractive quadrant" of the Artificial Analysis chart, ...
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Anthropic is about to become the first profitable AI lab

Anthropic expects $559 million in operating profit for Q2 on $10.9 billion in revenue, the WSJ reports. The main drivers: coding tools seeing massive demand and Claude's agentic task processing.
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Trump pulls AI safety order after last-minute calls from Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks

US President Donald Trump canceled the signing of an executive order on AI safety scheduled for Thursday. Phone calls from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former AI advisor David Sacks tipped the ...
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The EU wants to regulate AI but needs OpenAI and Anthropic to let regulators through the door

The EU has the AI Act and the AI Office, but still can't get hands-on access to frontier models. OpenAI's offer is welcome, but it highlights an uncomfortable truth for Brussels: EU regulators depend ...
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AI money keeps flowing as Deepseek plans record raise and Core Automation quadruples valuation in weeks

Money keeps pouring into AI startups at a staggering pace. According to The Information, Chinese AI lab Deepseek is planning a funding round of up to 50 billion yuan ($7.35 billion), the largest ever ...
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GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length

GPT-5.5's list price has doubled compared to GPT-5.4. Input tokens now cost $5 and output tokens $30 per million, up from $2.50 and $15. OpenAI says shorter responses should partially offset this, but ...
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Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search

Google has introduced a "Preferred Sources" feature that lets users manually mark journalistic outlets they want to see more often in search results. But the company has spent decades algorithmically ...