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Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers.
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Apple AI researchers question OpenAI's claims about o1's reasoning capabilities

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Study reveals major reasoning flaws in smaller AI language models

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Elon Musk's legal team filed a request Friday for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from converting to a for-profit company, according to TechCrunch. The filing is part of Musk's ongoing lawsuit against the AI company. The lawyers argue that OpenAI may lack sufficient funds to pay potential damages if Musk prevails in court, pointing to CEO Sam Altman's alleged personal financial gains as evidence. The legal filing also accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of violating US antitrust laws. Musk's team claims the two companies told investors not to fund their joint competitors, as previously reported by Reuters. OpenAI's latest round of funding is tied to its conversion to a for-profit company. Early communications from OpenAI's founding period show that Musk himself supported a for-profit model at the time, citing concerns about falling behind in the development of advanced AI systems.

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Tesla has updated its Optimus humanoid robot with a new hand design that features 22 degrees of freedom, plus three more in the forearm. The company added a soft protective layer to the fingers and palm that preserves the hand's tactile sensing capabilities while enabling it to handle delicate objects. All of the hand's actuators now sit in the forearm. Tesla says it plans to finish integrating the tactile sensors, implementing tendon-based fine control, and reducing the forearm's weight by the end of this year. Going forward, Tesla intends to equip all new Optimus robots with this enhanced hand design.

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The 7-billion-parameter language model Teuken-7B is now available on Hugging Face, offering support for all 24 official European Union languages. The model comes from the EU's OpenGPT-X research project and is available as open-source. Unlike most AI language models that focus mainly on English, Teuken-7B was built from scratch with about half of its training data coming from non-English European languages. The developers say the model performs reliably across all languages it was trained on. The project team also created the European LLM Leaderboard that measures how well LLM's work across European languages, moving beyond the English-only testing that was standard before.

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Deepseek's $5.6M Chinese LLM wonder shakes up the AI elite

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OpenAI unveils o3, its most advanced reasoning model yet

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