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The Department of Defense has captured a staggering 70-90% of all federal AI contracts, creating a dramatic capability imbalance within the US government that could reshape internal power dynamics and leave civilian agencies unprepared for the AI revolution, according to a comprehensive new report examining government AI adoption. This stark
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Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet has demonstrated significantly better performance than OpenAI's models in replicating complex machine learning research, achieving a 21.0% replication score compared to OpenAI's o1 model at 13.2% on a new benchmark designed to test AI research capabilities. End
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"A revolution is here," declares climate scientist Ed Hawkins about the unprecedented capability of Google's latest AI to extract billions of historical weather observations from paper records with near-perfect accuracy and at negligible cost. End of Miles reports that this development could transform climate research by
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"I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies," declared renowned AI pioneer Andrew Ng in a stark warning about how broad tariffs will damage the global AI ecosystem. "Broad tariffs, implemented not just against adversaries but also steadfast allies, will
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"There's this bit of human vanity to think that consciousness is some super complicated thing at the pinnacle of mental development," declares Joscha Bach, challenging a fundamental assumption about the nature of consciousness and its relationship to intelligence. Bach, a comparative scientist at Liquid AI and
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"Instead of writing logic, we're teaching systems how to reason about tools," explains tech expert Nate B. Jones in his latest analysis on AI development trends. "What happens when we remove the script? What happens when the model is given a wide range of possible
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"People are definitely going to start asking AIs to do stuff for them, rather than just going back and forth asking questions while doing the work themselves," Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed in a candid discussion about the company's future direction. The AI search engine is
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Google Gemini is the "main rival" that Perplexity is focused on competing against in the rapidly evolving AI search landscape, according to company CEO Aravind Srinivas. The strategic positioning marks a significant shift in how AI search startups view the competitive field, End of Miles reports, as Perplexity
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Google has had "2 years to kill Perplexity and hasn't" because doing so would disrupt their advertising business model that relies on users clicking through links rather than getting direct AI answers, according to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA session addressing the
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"No one likes being described as evil and the villains," LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman told an Oxford Union audience while explaining the tech industry's notable rightward shift in the 2024 election cycle. The venture capitalist and tech entrepreneur offered a rare insider perspective on Silicon Valley&
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"In my 2.5 years of running Perplexity, one thing I have realized is no one has a long-term model advantage. The product is the ultimate place to compete on," declared Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of the AI search company challenging Google's dominance. End of
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Perplexity's highly anticipated Comet browser is facing development delays as engineers tackle the challenges of creating AI that can effectively parse web pages, navigate sites, and intelligently interact with content, the company's CEO has revealed. The browser aims to leverage client-side data access to deliver personalization