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Microsoft's AI revenue reportedly depends on OpenAI for 70 percent

Most of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI, new disclosures show. A Bloomberg report puts the figure at $24.1 billion during the fiscal year ending in June, roughly 70 percent of Microsoft's ...
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Google Deepmind loses both its CEO and chief scientist as Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean step down simultaneously

Dean has since posted a farewell message on X thanking his colleagues. "It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all ...
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Mistral's open model Shieldstral matches much larger safety models at a fraction of the size

A new paper proposes replacing fixed safety categories with yes or no questions that operators can define at runtime without retraining the classifier. Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter model from ...
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Google will shut down Google Assistant starting September 2026 as Gemini takes over on Android and Wear OS

Google is killing Google Assistant on Android and Wear OS starting September 4, 2026. The company emailed existing users to let them know that Gemini, its AI-powered successor, will take over ...