AI News - February 18, 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
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Apple Computer plans to add AI functionality to its Vision Pro application. [Link]
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Perplexity, makers of their perplexity search engine, plans to offer a ‘freemium’ research framework. [Link]
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Dell Computers looks to finalize a five billion USD deal for servers with xAI. [Link]
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The National Basketball Association debuts robots as training partners for NBA players. [Link]
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Thomson Reuters wins its first AI copyright case against now-defunct Ross Intelligence. [Link]
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The UK government renames their AI oversight body and signs a memorandum of understanding with Anthropic. [Link]
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OpenAI has canceled its release of O3, plans to merge its features into GPT-5. Will also release GPT-4.5 soon. [Link]
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ByteDance, the owners of TikTok, plan to release their new text-to-video model Goku. [Link]
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Actress Scarlett Johansson calls for a ban on Deepfake AI videos after a fake video of her and Kanye West goes viral. [Link]
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OpenAI plans to allow ChatGPT to discuss heretofore controversial and banned topics. [Link]
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Elon Musk’s 97.4 billion USD buyout offer of OpenAI is rejected by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. [Link]
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An AI study out of China reports that AI can now replicate itself. [Link]
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xAI releases Grok 3, the first ever model to break 1400 score on the LMarena leaderboard, reaching #1 across all categories. [Link]