Optical Breakthrough, Sutton's Lab, and Google's AI Search Overhaul
Google makes AI search the default, Anthropic finds a hidden thought space, and Rich Sutton launches a new AI lab.
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Google Replaced Its Default Search With AI: How to Get Blue Links Back
What Anthropic's latest AI discovery does—and doesn't—show
Nadella calls out AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for banning distillation while training on everyone else's data
Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own
China's optical chip breakthrough boosts AI speed 100-fold using fraction of compute power
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