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Mistral introduced the Mistral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is capable of analysing and processing PDF documents and converting it into an AI-ready text format such as Markdown or raw text file. The tool is capable of extracting data from PDFs to make them digestible

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Former OpenAI policy researcher Miles Brundage criticizes OpenAI for “rewriting the history of GPT-2”, after OpenAI outlined its safety and alignment philosophy  —  A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for … Source link

Google Search received a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature dubbed AI Mode on Wednesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant was reportedly internally testing this feature last month, and has now rolled it out to a limited number of users. The AI Mode will offer responses on complex topics, and search queries that are multi-faceted and

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: USCIS proposes to review social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump’s EO  —  People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government. Source link

Cohere For AI, the firm’s open research division, released new state-of-the-art (SOTA) vision models on Tuesday. Dubbed Aya Vision, the artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in two parameter sizes. The company’s latest frontier models address the inconsistent performance of existing large language models (LLMs) across different languages, especially for multimodal tasks. Aya Vision models

Hayden Field / CNBC: Scale AI signs a US DOD prototype contract for “Thunderforge”, to use AI agents for planning and operations; a source says it is a multimillion-dollar deal  —  Scale AI on Wednesday announced a landmark deal with the Department of Defense that could be a turning point … Source link

Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Monday that can help medical professionals reduce their documentation workload. Dubbed Dragon Copilot, the new AI assistant can record conversations, write clinical notes, draft referral letters and even create post-visit summaries. The Redmond-based tech giant’s latest tool for clinicians is based on AI tools from Nuance,

Financial Times: Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK’s demand for a backdoor to access users’ encrypted data, even of non-UK users  —  iPhone maker has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data Source link

Frank McCourt announced on Monday that Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok’s US operations as a strategic adviser specializing in social media. Ohanian was an internet pioneer who founded Reddit with his roommate from the University of Virginia. He sold it to Conde Nast

Amy Stillman / Bloomberg: Jalisco’s governor says Foxconn’s $900M Guadalajara plant, the largest Nvidia GB200 server assembly site, will be built in a year despite Trump’s tariff threat  —  – The Taiwanese company is investing nearly $1 billion  — Lemus welcomes Chinese investment in spite of Trump’s tariffs Source link