Artificial Intelligence: News, Business, Science

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Jul 13, 2025Jul 13, 2025

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Kimi-K2 is the next open-weight AI milestone from China after Deepseek

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Jul 11, 2025Jul 11, 2025

New Energy-Based Transformer architecture aims to bring better "System 2 thinking" to AI models

AI in practice

Jul 10, 2025Jul 10, 2025

Musk unveils Grok 4 as xAI’s new AI model that beats OpenAI and Google on major benchmarks

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AI in practice

Jul 13, 2025Jul 13, 2025

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SpaceX, Elon Musk's aerospace company, is investing $2 billion in Elon Musk's AI lab, xAI. The funding is part of a larger $5 billion round, according to The Wall Street Journal. xAI's chatbot Grok is already used for customer support in SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service.

Musk stated on X that "it would be great" if Tesla also invested in xAI, but this requires approval from Tesla's board and shareholders. In March, Musk announced the merger of xAI with his social media company X. The merger allows the companies to share data, AI models, computing power, and staff.

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AI research

Jul 13, 2025Jul 13, 2025

AI system StreamDiT generates livestream videos from text at 16 fps 512p

AI in practice

Jul 13, 2025Jul 13, 2025

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xAI says it wants to fix Grok 4 because referencing Musk's views is not right for a truth-seeking AI

AI in practice

Jul 13, 2025Jul 13, 2025

Elon Musk's AI company xAI apologizes "deeply" for Grok's "horrific behavior"

AI research

Jul 13, 2025

Researchers used 1,600 YouTube fail videos to show AI models struggle with surprises

AI research

Jul 13, 2025Jul 13, 2025

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AI coding can make developers slower even if they feel faster

AI and society

Jul 12, 2025Jul 12, 2025

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Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting about 1,300 jobs, or roughly 6 percent of the workforce at their parent company, Recruit Holdings. CEO Hisayuki Idekoba says the move is meant to make hiring more efficient by using more AI to automate recruitment and reduce manual work. The cuts mainly affect research, development, HR, and sustainability teams in the US, but other regions are involved as well. According to Idekoba, AI already writes about a third of new program code at the company, and that number is expected to climb to 50 percent soon.

AI is changing the world, and we must adapt by ensuring our product delivers truly great experiences for job seekers and employers.

Hisayuki Idekoba

Not everyone in the industry is convinced. While AI can help with programming, critics argue that the technology still isn't good enough to fully replace human developers. Some see these AI explanations as a way to justify layoffs that are really driven by economic reasons.

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AI in practice

Jul 12, 2025Jul 12, 2025

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OpenAI alignment researcher Sean Grove believes the most valuable programmers of the future will be those who communicate best. "If you can communicate effectively, you can program," Grove says. In his view, software development has never been just about code but about structured communication: understanding requirements, defining goals, and making them clear to both people and machines.

Grove argues that code itself is only a "lossy projection" of the original intent and values. As AI models become more powerful, he says, the real skill will be turning that intent into precise specifications and prompts.