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Were the White House’s Tariffs Calculations Done By AI?

The use of the trade deficit in tariff calculations is recommended by the leading generative AI.

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How can science benefit from AI? Risks?

Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions and to what extent they can be generalized. A publicationnow warns of misunderstandings in handling artificial intelligence. At the same time, it highlights the conditions under which researchers can most likely have confidence in the models.

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Artificial intelligence has potential to aid physician decisions during virtual urgent care

Do physicians or artificial intelligence (AI) offer better treatment recommendations for patients examined through a virtual urgent care setting? A new study shows physicians and AI models have distinct strengths. The study compared initial AI treatment recommendations to final recommendations of physicians who had access to the AI recommendations but may or may not have reviewed them.

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DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, NETSCOUT Warns

Hackers now use AI and botnets to launch powerful DDoS attacks, bypassing security and overwhelming servers as law enforcement struggles to keep up.

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Trump’s Tariffs Hammer Big Tech as Apple, Meta, Amazon Shares Plunge

The 10% baseline tariff plus additional “reciprocal” levies on China, India, and Taiwan has undermined investor confidence in the U.S. tech giants.

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Benchmarks Find ‘DeepSeek-V3-0324 Is More Vulnerable Than Qwen2.5-Max’

While the latest iteration of Qwen2.5-Max outperforms DeepSeek-V3 on security, the AI model lags behind its competition in several other areas.

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Gartner: Gen AI is in the ‘Trough of Disillusionment,’ Yet Spending Expected to Increase Through 2028

According to a report from Gartner, spending on generative AI will rise to over $600 billion in 2025. However, some high-profile failures have shaken many consumers’ faith in the technology.

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New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports

The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.

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Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy

At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels.

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Google DeepMind Proposes AI ‘Monitors’ to Police Hyperintelligent Models

DeepMind’s approach to AGI safety and security splits threats into four categories. One solution could be a “monitor” AI.

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Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data

More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project.

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Microsoft Finally Expands Copilot+ AI Features to Intel and AMD-Powered PCs

Windows brings AI-powered creative tools to AMD and Intel PCs, including Cocreator in Paint and new Restyle Image and Image Creator features in Photos.

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Multi-resistance in bacteria predicted by AI model

An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between genetically similar bacteria and mainly occurs in wastewater treatment plants and inside the human body.

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OpenAI Secures $40B in Historic Funding Round — But There’s a $10B Catch

OpenAI raises a record-breaking $40B at a $300B valuation, led by SoftBank, to fuel AGI research, expand infrastructure, and launch next-gen AI models.

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Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges

This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.

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Intel CEO Tan Starts Company’s Pivot: Spin Off Non-Core Assets

During the Intel Vision conference, Tan also said he would focus on boosting Intel’s chip foundry work and recruiting quality engineering talent.

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How Can AI Be Used Safely? Researchers From Harvard, MIT, IBM & Microsoft Weigh In

A new report by the AAAI defines the current trends and the research challenges required to make AI more capable and reliable, so the technology can be safely used.

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Developers Wanted: OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’

Find out how to provide OpenAI with your input about its upcoming open language model, which Sam Altman stated will be a "reasoning" model like OpenAI o1.

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Who are climate conscious consumers? Not who you’d expect, says Northwind Climate

Rather than divide people into demographic buckets, Northwind Climate analyzes survey responses for behavioral clues.

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Who are climate-conscious consumers? Not who you’d expect, says Northwind Climate

Rather than divide people into demographic buckets, Northwind Climate analyzes survey responses for behavioral clues.

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