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OpenAI’s surprise new o3-powered ‘Deep Research’ mode shows the power of the AI agent era

In case you missed it in favor of the Grammy Awards, OpenAI surprised the world late Sunday evening with the announcement of its new “Deep Research” modality, an AI agent available to ChatGPT Pro subscription plan ($200/month) users that’s designed to save humans hours by researching, well, “deeply” and expansively across the web for given topics and compiling professional quality…
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Oumi: The Open-Source AI for the Success of DeepSeek-R1

If it wasn’t clear before, it’s definitely very clear now: Open source really does matter for AI. The success of DeepSeek-R1 has substantively proven there is a need and demand for open-source AI. But what exactly is open-source AI? For Meta and its Llama models, it means free access to use the model, with some conditions. DeepSeek is available under a permissive open-source license…
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Understanding U.S. Copyright Office and AI Generated Content

In an important and helpful update issued today, the U.S. Copyright Office — which administers copyright protections from the government to human-authored works such as films, TV shows, novels, art, music, even software — clarified that some forms of AI-generated content can, in fact, receive copyright protection, provided that a human substantially contributed or changed the content in…
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Block: Jack Dorsey Launches Goose - Open-Source AI Framework

The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project. Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale service Square, mobile payments system Cash App, music streaming service Tidal, and other tech-driven financial tools, today…
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