ByteDance Unveils Doubao 2.1 Pro and Previews Seedance 2.5 Video
ByteDance unveiled Doubao 2.1 Pro, which it claims beats Claude Opus 4.6 at 80% lower cost, and previewed Seedance 2.5, a 30-second video model.
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Story of the Day AI & Machine LearningAnthropic May Require Some Claude Users to Verify Their Identity
A new Anthropic privacy policy taking effect July 8 lets the company ask some flagged Claude users to upload government IDs and submit biometric selfies.
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Google Loses Two Top AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic
The back-to-back exits of Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper expose Google's retention struggles as funded rivals lure away frontier AI researchers.
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Google Invests $75 Million in A24 for DeepMind Filmmaking Partnership
Google is investing about $75 million in indie studio A24, pairing it with DeepMind to build AI filmmaking tools in its first stake in a studio.
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OpenAI’s Codex Can Now Learn From Watching You Work
OpenAI added Record and Replay to its Codex Mac app, letting users demonstrate a task once and turn it into a reusable AI skill.
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