Artificial Intelligence: News, Business, Science

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Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

Google outlines MIRAS and Titans, a possible path toward continuously learning AI

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Google gathers triple OpenAI's AI data through its search monopoly

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Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

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OpenAI ordered to turn over 20 million ChatGPT chats to the New York Times

AI in practice

Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

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Google Cloud has signed a multi-year partnership with the AI coding startup Replit as it looks to strengthen its position against competitors like Anthropic and Cursor. Under the agreement, Replit will deepen its use of Google Cloud services and offer Google models directly on its platform.

Replit has been on a remarkable growth streak, reportedly boosting its annual revenue from 2.8 million dollars to 150 million dollars in less than a year. Google is leaning on the momentum of its new Gemini 3 model as part of this push.

Its biggest rival in the coding-assistant space is Anthropic, whose Claude Code tool hit an annualized revenue of 1 billion dollars in November. Developers also use Claude models widely through other tools like Cursor. Anthropic recently signed a partnership with Snowflake and even acquired the Bun JavaScript runtime to bolster Claude Code.

Despite the competition, Anthropic is also a Google Cloud customer. In October, the company announced plans to rent up to one million TPUs from Google by 2026.

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AI in practice

Dec 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025

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Meta is turning its AI assistant into a real-time news hub, pulling in content from major media outlets including CNN, Fox News, Le Monde Group, People, USA Today, The Daily Caller, and The Washington Examiner. When users ask news-related questions, the assistant will surface information and direct links to articles on these partner sites. Researchers have noted a tradeoff with these kinds of tools. AI search engines tend to lower click-through rates for news outlets, and they often answer news questions with incorrect information rather than leaving gaps.

Meta says the goal is to reach new audiences for its media partners, and the company plans to bring additional publishers on board. Other AI search providers like OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity have already signed similar deals.

Physicist Steve Hsu publishes research built around a core idea generated by GPT-5

AI in practice

Dec 4, 2025Dec 4, 2025

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Google AI just released an updated "Deep Think" mode for Google AI Ultra subscribers using the Gemini app. Built on the Gemini 3 model, the feature aims to boost the AI's reasoning skills. Google says the mode uses "advanced parallel thinking" to investigate multiple hypotheses at the same time, making these models better suited for complex scientific tasks than for mundane office work.

The technology "builds on" on the Deep Think variant of Gemini 2.5, which recently posted impressive scores at the International Mathematical Olympiad and a major programming competition. To try it out, subscribers select "Deep Think" in the app's input field and choose the "Gemini 3 Pro" model from the menu. The Ultra subscription currently costs $250 per month for the standard plan.

The release looks like a direct response to DeepsSeek's new open-source math model and an upcoming system from OpenAI. Reports suggest OpenAI plans to launch its new model next week, with performance expected to outperform Gemini 3.

via Google AI / X

AI and society

Dec 4, 2025Dec 4, 2025

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The European Union is planning a major expansion of its AI infrastructure. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission want to build up to five AI gigafactories across Europe to boost compute capacity for advanced AI models and reduce the region's dependence on foreign technology.

The Commission plans to fund the effort with 20 billion euros through its InvestAI program, and the EIB is considering additional loans. Each site will include about 100,000 high-performance AI chips, described as "the most advanced" available and roughly four times more than existing facilities.

"AI gigafactories will train the most complex, very large AI models, which require extensive computing infrastructure for breakthroughs in domains such as medicine, cleantech and space."

The project falls under the EIB's TechEU program, which aims to mobilize 250 billion euros in investment by 2027.

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