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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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Build 2026: Microsoft tops Google in image generation while playing catch-up on reasoning

Microsoft unveiled seven homegrown AI models at Build 2026, including its first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1. In benchmarks, it lands roughly on par with Deepseek V3.2. A new method called ...
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OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers

OpenAI has shipped a batch of new features for Codex, including role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, product design, and investment banking; 62 apps and 110 capabilities in total. Legal and ...
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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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OpenAI's Codex can now operate your Windows PC autonomously, hunting bugs and testing apps on its own

OpenAI has expanded its Codex app to Windows 11, adding "Computer Use" and mobile access. The AI can now use apps, files, and other resources on a PC, even when the user isn't at the computer. That ...
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Attackers abuse shared ChatGPT and Claude chats to spread malware

Attackers are exploiting shared chat links in ChatGPT and Claude to push malware. Both platforms let users share conversations publicly via URL. Victims stumble onto these chats through paid search ...
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Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5

That makes Deepseek's flagship about 11.5 times cheaper than GPT 5.5 on standard input pricing. The gap is much wider on output, where Deepseek V4 Pro is about 34.5 times cheaper. Against GPT 5.5 long ...
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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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YouTube opens its deepfake face-swap detection tool to all adult creators

YouTube is making its AI face-swap detection tool available to all creators 18 and older. The company announced the expansion on its community platform. Previously, Likeness Detection was only a pilot ...
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OpenAI makes its AI coding assistant Codex available on iOS and Android

OpenAI brings its AI coding assistant Codex to the ChatGPT app on iOS and Android. Codex writes and edits code independently, either on a user's local machine or in a cloud-based development ...