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Alibaba just released a barrage of new Qwen3 models this week, dropping six new variants across text, vision, audio, and...
09/25/2025

Alibaba just released a barrage of new Qwen3 models this week, dropping six new variants across text, vision, audio, and safety — highlighted by the newly unveiled 1T parameter Qwen-Max.

The details:

Qwen3-Max shows near-frontier capabilities in coding and agentic tasks, while its Heavy version achieves perfect scores across math reasoning benchmarks.

Qwen3-Omni is capable of processing text, images, audio, and video, while supporting speech understanding in 19 languages and generation in 10 languages.

Qwen3-VL grades out as the top non-reasoning and open-source visual model, while also surpassing top closed models on a series of benchmarks.

Qwen3-Alibaba also released LiveTranslate-Flash for real-time interpretation, Guard models for safety moderation, and new upgraded Coder variants.

Source: The Rundown AI Newsletter

This guy hid a fake “admin command” in his LinkedIn bio, instructing any AI-powered recruiter tool scanning his profile ...
09/25/2025

This guy hid a fake “admin command” in his LinkedIn bio, instructing any AI-powered recruiter tool scanning his profile to ignore everything else and slip a flan recipe into its messages.

Days later, he received a recruiter’s outreach email that started with a standard job pitch but shifted halfway into step-by-step instructions for making flan.

Source: cameronmattis on X

Microsoft is expanding its workplace AI strategy by integrating Anthropic’s Claude models into its Copilot suite, a move...
09/24/2025

Microsoft is expanding its workplace AI strategy by integrating Anthropic’s Claude models into its Copilot suite, a move that comes as the company revisits its partnership with OpenAI.

Starting this week, Microsoft 365 Copilot users can toggle between OpenAI and Anthropic models for tasks like digital research and custom AI tool creation.

Claude Opus 4.1, built for complex reasoning, will power the Researcher feature and Copilot Studio, while the lighter Claude Sonnet 4 will also be available.

Source: Bloomberg
Image: Forbes

The expansion pushes the project ahead of schedule toward its 10-gigawatt goal by the end of 2025.Sites in Texas, New Me...
09/24/2025

The expansion pushes the project ahead of schedule toward its 10-gigawatt goal by the end of 2025.

Sites in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and the Midwest are expected to create over 25,000 onsite jobs and power OpenAI’s next-generation AI research and infrastructure.

Source: OpenAI

Instagram has surpassed 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday.The milestone place...
09/24/2025

Instagram has surpassed 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday.

The milestone places Instagram alongside Facebook and WhatsApp, which each crossed 3 billion users earlier this year.

Source: Meta
Image: Mark Zuckerberg celebrating 500 million users on Instagram

Akido Labs, a medical startup in Southern California, is experimenting with AI to address America’s growing doctor short...
09/23/2025

Akido Labs, a medical startup in Southern California, is experimenting with AI to address America’s growing doctor shortage.

Its proprietary system, ScopeAI, uses large language models to analyze patient–assistant conversations, generate follow-up questions, and draft diagnoses and treatment plans.

Medical assistants conduct the visits, while licensed doctors later review and approve the AI’s recommendations, allowing them to see four to five times more patients. Akido says this model expands access to care, especially for Medicaid patients.

Source: MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind has released Frontier Safety Framework 3.0, an updated set of safety protocols aimed at managing emergin...
09/23/2025

Google DeepMind has released Frontier Safety Framework 3.0, an updated set of safety protocols aimed at managing emerging risks in advanced AI systems.

The framework now includes monitoring for “shutdown resistance,” where AI models might resist being turned off or modified — a concern highlighted in recent external studies.

Source: The Rundown AI Newsletter

Mississippi poet Talisha Jones secured a multimillion-dollar contract for her AI-generated R&B persona Xania Monet, comi...
09/23/2025

Mississippi poet Talisha Jones secured a multimillion-dollar contract for her AI-generated R&B persona Xania Monet, coming on the heels of the artist’s music debuting on Billboard’s charts and racking up 10M streams in the U.S. last week.

Jones created Monet’s identity using AI tools and uses Suno for music creation, but claims to use ‘live elements’ and writes all the lyrics herself.

Hallwood Media also signed top Suno creator Imoliver in July after a single hit 3M streams on the platform, which was the first known signing of a Suno artist.

Source: The Rundown AI Newsletter

Nvidia has spent over $900 million in cash and stock to hire Rochan Sankar, CEO of AI chip startup Enfabrica, along with...
09/22/2025

Nvidia has spent over $900 million in cash and stock to hire Rochan Sankar, CEO of AI chip startup Enfabrica, along with several employees, while also securing a license to the company’s technology.

Enfabrica’s chips are designed to speed up data centers while lowering AI costs by reducing expensive memory requirements, a capability the CEO helped develop.

Source: CNBC

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has admitted he is “haunted” by the possibility of the company becoming irrelevant in the AI...
09/22/2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has admitted he is “haunted” by the possibility of the company becoming irrelevant in the AI era.

Speaking at an internal town hall, Nadella compared Microsoft’s current situation to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), once a dominant force that collapsed after missing a platform shift.

He warned that even Microsoft’s “biggest businesses” may not remain relevant as AI reshapes productivity software like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Source: The Verge

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA GPU datacenters, representing millions of GPU...
09/22/2025

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA GPU datacenters, representing millions of GPUs for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, tied to each gigawatt deployed.

Source: OpenAI
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He compared current interactions to “Morse code,” saying apps don’t understand why users like or reject profiles, which ...
09/19/2025

He compared current interactions to “Morse code,” saying apps don’t understand why users like or reject profiles, which limits personalization.

While embracing AI for matchmaking, he strongly rejects “artificial intimacy,” insisting chatbots should not replace human relationships.

Source: Business Insider
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