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Rio de Janeiro made headlines this week claiming its new AI model outperformed DeepSeek and Alibaba's best work — until researchers at Nex took a closer look. The evidence suggests the model wasn't built from scratch at all, but fine-tuned on someone else's foundation, raising serious questions about transparency and credit in the AI development race.
Staying with artificial intelligence, a new Gartner report is drawing attention to a bottleneck that has nothing to do with chips or algorithms. By two thousand thirty, the sheer power demands of data centers could bring AI expansion to a standstill. The constraint isn't silicon — it's electricity, and the infrastructure to deliver it at scale simply may not keep pace.
And on the policy front, Anthropic is finding itself in an increasingly complicated relationship with Washington. After launching its most capable models yet — Fable five and Mythos five — the company received a government order on June twelfth to restrict foreign access to them. That follows a separate dispute with the Pentagon, leaving Anthropic navigating two simultaneous battles with the federal government at once.
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