— AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that is able to make new discoveries in computing and mathematics, says Matej Balog, a researcher at Google DeepMind, to VentureBeat.
Google doesn’t say when the model will be available to the general public, but is planning on working with certain scientists and is «exploring» a broader release.
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OpenAIs coding model was launched in the API only on April 14th, and reduced costs compared to GPT 4.5.
It also comes with a large context window of 1 million «tokens.» These are compute units that roughly translates to 750,000 words — so this model can read and output very large files or codebases.
It should be available under the model selector menu by clicking on «More models.»
UPDATE: It seems that without announcement of fanfare, free users on ChatGPT.com now get 4.1-mini as the new default model, a step up from the previous 4o-mini.
Despite some reports, GPT-4.1 does not appear to be the default for paid users—ChatGPT Plus still opens with GPT-4o as standard
By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today.
GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it’s faster, it’s a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 14, 2025
Read more: OpenAI’s model release notes, Ars Technica bemoans model confusion, Teknotum on the 4.1 launch.
By doing this, albeit in their Labs section, Google shows they are considering using some of the most valuable screen real estate on the planet to further promote its Gemini AI models.
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The UN Secretary General has set a deadline for 2026 to reach an agreement on so-called «killer robots,» while great powers resist.
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Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.
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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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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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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.
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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— The community of volunteers behind Wikipedia is the most important and unique element of Wikipedia’s success, the document begins.
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— 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’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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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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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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