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Charts from Mary Meeker’s “Trends — Artificial Intelligence” report show global AI user growth, rising AI job demand, and revenue lagging behind compute costs.
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AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.
Bar chart that compares the costs to run a suite of popular benchmarks on reasoning and non-reasoning AI models.
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Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
Duolingo owl mascots dressed in cultural costumes, representing global languages and cultures.
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Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Bar chart of AUROC scores for model recognition of non-public and public data across GPT versions, highlighting performance differences.
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Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books

A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
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Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more

Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.
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U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE

The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Grok’s Fixation on South Africa: xAI blames unnamed, unauthorized employee for chatbot introducing "white genocide" into conversations

An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.
Chat interface discussing code error with special character filenames. Terminal shows Unix commands for troubleshooting.
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Your Robot Dev Team: OpenAI introduces Codex, a multi-agent cloud-based software engineering tool in ChatGPT

OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.
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EU Loosens AI Regulations: European regulators move to relax some AI Act rules on developers’ liability, other provisions

The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.
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AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.
Diagram of LLM-based preference approximation and multimodal sequential recommendation for personalized product suggestions.
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Inferring Customer Preferences: LLMs boost shopping recommendations by decoding what users want

Large language models can improve systems that recommend items to purchase by inferring customer preferences.
CB Insights AI 100 2025 infographic showing top AI startups across sectors like healthcare, robotics, and infrastructure.
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Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list

AI agents and infrastructure made a strong showing on CB Insights’s latest list of the top 100 AI startups.
NVIDIA AI computing hardware with multiple GPUs on a black reflective surface.
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U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
Comparison chart of GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini with other models on coding, math, tool use, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks.
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OpenAI Launches Cost-Effective Alternatives: OpenAI replaces GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1 Family, plus o3 and o4-mini, new models focused on reasoning and coding

OpenAI refreshed its roster of models and scheduled the largest, most costly one for removal.
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The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI

A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
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