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Waymo's leaked system prompt reveals a 1,200-line rulebook for its in-car Gemini assistant

Prompt engineers, take note: Jane Manchun Wong has uncovered the system prompt for Waymo's unreleased Gemini AI assistant, a specification over 1,200 lines long buried in the Waymo app's code. The ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Report: OpenAI may embed sponsored content directly into ChatGPT responses OpenAI's advertising plans for ChatGPT are taking shape. According to The Information, employees are ...
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Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure

Generative AI systems reached around seven billion monthly web visits in September 2025, a 76% increase compared to the previous year, according to Similarweb. ChatGPT remains at the center of the AI ...
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Transformer co-creator Vaswani unveils high-performance Rnj-1 coding model

Essential AI's new open-source model, Rnj-1, outperforms significantly larger competitors on the "SWE-bench Verified" test. This benchmark is considered particularly challenging because it evaluates ...
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Paris-based Mistral releases Large 3, a major new open-source AI model

Mistral AI has introduced the Mistral 3 family, a suite of open, multimodal models ranging from efficient edge solutions to a high-performance flagship. The leading "Mistral Large 3" utilizes a sparse ...
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With AI gains and softer demand, consulting starting pay is flat

Entry-level consulting salaries have remained flat for the second year in a row, according to a new report from Management Consulted. The slowdown affects top firms like McKinsey and the Big Four, as ...
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Google improves "Search Live" with new AI voice

Google has updated the voice for "Search Live." A new Gemini audio model powers the feature, producing responses that sound more natural and fluid, according to a blog post. Search Live lets users ...
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Altman memo: new OpenAI model coming next week, outperforming Gemini 3

OpenAI is rushing to launch a new reasoning model that outperforms Google’s Gemini 3 in internal tests. Other projects like ads and AI agents are delayed so the company can focus on improving ChatGPT ...
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Black Forest Labs secures $300 million to accelerate its vision for advanced image models

Black Forest Labs has raised USD 300 million in a new Series B round, bringing its valuation to USD 3.25 billion. Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP) led the round, with existing investors like ...
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Leaked "Soul Doc" reveals how Anthropic programs Claude’s character

A leaked internal document from Anthropic confirms Claude 4.5 Opus was trained with defined ethics, identity, and safety principles, offering insight into the company’s alignment methods. The text ...
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Kling's Video O1 launches as the first all-in-one video model for generation and editing

Chinese AI company Kuaishou has introduced "Video O1." According to the company, this is the "world's first unified multimodal video model," a system designed to handle both video generation and ...
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OpenAI at 10: Altman sees superintelligence arriving by 2035

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts the company will likely build a superintelligence within the next ten years, marking the firm's tenth anniversary with a vision of exponentially growing machine ...