AI News - February 02, 2025

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. The United Kingdom makes using AI to create child abuse material a crime.
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2. Google’s Gmail faces major AI attack. Approximately 2.5 billion users are warned of the potential threat.
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3. African schools are using AI due to its lowered costs.
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4. OpenAI releases O3-mini and O3-preview to combat rival Deepseek.
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5. Chinese company Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 LLM, claiming superiority over Deepseek.
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6. OpenAI accuses Deepseek Labs of violating terms of service to improperly train Deepseek on ChatGPT’s outputs.
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7. A new benchmark from the Center for AI Safety called “Humanity’s Last Exam” is confounding top LLM models.
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8. The U.S. Copyright Agency affirms that AI-generated material cannot be copyrighted, but protections exist for humans using AI.
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9. US Company Cisco Systems announces AI Defense to protect enterprises from malicious AI.
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10. Hugging Face researchers launch Open-R1, an open-source version of Deepseek.
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11. The Vatican issues an official position on AI and its use.
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