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Image by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Deep Cogito, a company that’s been quietly building some of the most intriguing brain-inspired AI out there, just made a bold move: they’ve open-sourced not one, but four new hybrid reasoning models—and they come with something surprisingly human-like. Intuition. Yep, you read that right. These models don’t just process […]

Photo by Fer Troulik on Unsplash A major privacy hiccup just prompted OpenAI to quietly step back from one of its high-profile features. If you’ve ever used ChatGPT’s “Browse with Bing” tool to gather info from the web, here’s something that might make you pause: OpenAI has temporarily yanked that feature after private user conversations

Photo by Jorge Mallo on Unsplash Google has just dropped something big: its Gemini 2.5 “Deep Think” AI is officially out for public use. Yes, the same powerful model that recently snagged medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics. But—there’s a catch, and it’s not just about access. What’s Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’? Photo by

Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, we’re no longer just talking about powerful tools built by big companies behind closed doors. There’s been a significant shift, and it’s one that caught my attention: open-source AI is now a national priority in the United States. Yes, open-source.

Backed by a $30B-a-year deal, the 5 GW Stargate project in Abilene is bringing AI infrastructure to the Big Country and powering OpenAI’s next-gen ambitions. Photo by Leif Christoph Gottwald on Unsplash If you told someone a few years ago that a 5-gigawatt AI data center would be taking shape in a small Texas city

Photo by Tristan Gevaux on Unsplash Why the Trump administration’s AI strategy is drawing cheers from Big Tech and jeers from public interest groups worried about jobs, climate, and power bills On Wednesday, the White House dropped a 25-page document titled “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” and the title pretty much says it

Photo by THE ORGANIC CRAVE Ⓡ on Unsplash The black market for GPUs is booming, and China’s hungry AI sector is getting fed. Here’s how smuggled Nvidia chips are still making their way across borders. Late last year, the U.S. government tightened controls on the export of high-end AI chips to China. The goal? To