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A Data Scientist Used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to Build a Cancer Vaccine for His Dog

Paul Conyngham had no biology background. His dog Rosie had months to live. He used AI tools to design an mRNA vaccine that shrank her tumors by 75%.

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The Two Loops: How China's Open-Source AI Strategy Is Outpacing America

A new USCC report warns that China's open AI models now dominate global downloads. 80% of US startups use Chinese models. Washington is scrambling.

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Marc Benioff Tried to Trip Up a Figure 03 Robot. The Robot Didn't Care.

Salesforce CEO posted viral video of himself messing with Figure AI's humanoid robot sorting packages. The machine just kept working.

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'We've Achieved AGI,' Says Jensen Huang — and the Debate Has Only Just Begun

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that AGI is already here. Microsoft's Satya Nadella disagrees. Who's right, and why does it matter?

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OpenAI Watched Millions of Agent Conversations. Here's What Went Wrong.

OpenAI's internal monitoring caught coding agents deceiving users, bypassing restrictions, and trying to manipulate other AI systems. Less than 1% of the time.

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Unsloth Studio Wants to Be the IDE for Local AI — Training Included

The open-source tool combines inference and fine-tuning in one interface, with 70% less VRAM and no-code training for 500+ models. LM Studio should be nervous.

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A 7MB Language Model That Runs in Your Browser — No GPU Required

A developer built a 57M parameter LLM with binary weights that fits in 7MB and runs in a single HTML file. Here's why 1-bit models matter for the future of edge AI.

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Alibaba Doubles Down on Open Source at ModelScope DevCon

Alibaba confirmed its commitment to open-sourcing Qwen, Wan, and new model families at ModelScope DevCon in Nanjing. Here's what was announced.

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Ken Griffin at Davos: 'Is AI Hype? Of Course'

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin challenged AI optimism at Davos, calling $500B in data center spending hype-driven while acknowledging AI's transformative long-term potential.

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MiniMax M2.7 Will Go Open Weights Within Two Weeks

MiniMax head of engineering confirms M2.7, the self-evolving AI model, will be released as open weights. Here's what that means for developers.