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Google drops new Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, says it excels at coding
Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.
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OpenAI scraps for-profit structure, but keeps door open for investments
This means changing the structure of it’s operational, for profit Limited Liability Company (LLC) to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that will be controlled by it’s non-profit entity intended to «ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,» OpenAI writes in a blog post.
A Public Benefit Corporation is a profit-based company that legally commits to both profit and purpose — like «advancing AI for all» — and must consider that mission alongside shareholder value. It also has to publish a yearly «public benefit» report. It’s essentially a mission-specific corporate vehicle.
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Judge in Meta’s copyright case questions fair use defense
The case revolves around whether AI companies like Meta can use copyrighted works in the training of their models, which they claim is fair use, while the authors seek damages and compensation for the fact that they copied all of their work without authorization.
The case could upend the entire AI market, and Meta fears it would make them less competitive should they lose.
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Clarifying Apple’s tariff exposure
With the 145% tariffs imposed on goods imported from China, Apple was facing steep cost increases and would likely have had to drastically increase prices on its product offerings.
Google’s AdSense experimenting with AI chatbots
AdSense apparently began experimenting with ads for AI chatbots, or, as they call it «conversational AI,» in chatbots iAsk and Liner, according to Bloomberg, which is paywalled.
Just a test?
SEO roundtable quotes Bloomberg as saying that AdSense had «expanded to include conversations with chatbots operated by AI startups.»
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Wikipedia to use AI — to augment editors, not content
— The community of volunteers behind Wikipedia is the most important and unique element of Wikipedia’s success, the document begins.
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Big Tech embraces AI coding, hitting 30% of software
— I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a conversation at LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference, according to CNBC
Microsoft says they have made progress with Python, and less with C++ projects, but he is still pointing that some projects could be entirely written by AI.
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Meta AIs new Llama 4 app has access to Facebook, Instagram
Meta’s blog post touts the potential of linking it with your other Meta accounts so it can get to know you better, and says the app will remember things about you that you explicitly ask it to retain — or information you already shared on Facebook, for example.
This is slightly off what ChatGPT offers outside the EU, where the app will add all previous chats to its «memory.» The memory feature in Meta AI is also not available in the EU, limiting this service to the USA and Canada for now.
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ChatGPT debuts shopping and product reviews
The new feature will produce «improved product results» and show product cards with images and prices, pulling product reviews from sites like professional publishers and forums like reddit, and often presenting reviews with star ratings, writes The Verge.
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Metas nye Twitter-klone blir ikke tilgjengelig i Norge/EU
Appen dukker ikke opp i flere europeiske versjoner av App Store, i følge Bloomberg, og den vises heller ikke i Norge.
Gratisappen soper opp informasjon om livet ditt fra Instagram, om handlingsmønster og reklamer, og sveiper samtidig opp data fra mobilen din om helse, finanser, nettlesing, plassering, innkjøp, kontakter og søkehistorie — for å nevne noe, melder Independent.ie.
Det var ikke uventet at Meta ville bruke Threads til datainnsamling, i et så stort omfang at det blir en personvernsfelle av de helt store.
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Microsoft: 81% of SMBs see 2025 as pivotal year for AI at work
Enter AI agents to alleviate the press, they say, and 79 % of leaders concur. Most are now planning to use AI to boost productivity within the next 12 to 18 months.
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Gizmodo og Kotaku skal «teste» AI-generert innhold
Fagforeningen og flere av de ansatte regerer på sin side med frykt og harme, både for nedbemanninger — og ikke minst for kvaliteten på innholdet.
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No, an AI is not running that radio show in Australia
The story doing the rounds this week is that an ai «bot» called Thy is running a four hour radio show on Australias CADA channel. It’s hit the mainstream press and is reported by The Verge, The Independent and The Sydney Morning Herald, to name few.
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YouTube stanser enkelte avspillinger med reklameblokkering
De som blir dekket av eksperimentet, får opp en en advarselsplakat der man blir bedt om å hvitliste Youtube, fjerne adblockeren, eller starte et abonnement på YouTube Premium.
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