AI companies want 100B-parameter models running on phones by 2028: Qualcomm
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says unnamed AI firms want big models running nonstop on phones, but the firm's best phone chip tops out at 24GB RAM.
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Free Gemini isn’t just Flash-Lite only: Google’s Auto picks for you
Google's updated help page says Auto sends most free prompts to Flash-Lite and may route harder ones to Flash or Pro.
Nikon strips microscopy video contest winner over AI use
Nikon ruled that the first-place cilia video broke its generative AI rules. Nguyen Nam Nhat's roundworm video from Vietnam is the new winner.
Teens only use ChatGPT for less than 15 minutes a day: OpenAI
OpenAI's first teen report counts minutes. Common Sense Media ran 4,000-plus prompts and found parent alerts that never came, and rated it Unacceptable Risk.
Google launches free AI watermark checker for photos, videos, and audio
The free site checks images, video, and audio for watermarks from Google and more.
Free Gemini drops to Flash-Lite on October 9th, and AI Plus loses Pro
That's AI model inflation for you - getting smaller models for the same amount of money, if not more
OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT text, but only in the EU
The invisible mark survives copy and paste but not much editing. Outside EU, only API devs can turn it on - for now.
ChatGPT will test big picture ads while you wait for AI images
The US test starts later in October for Free and Go users. ChatGPT's regular ads already reached the Philippines and most of Southeast Asia in September.
Reflection’s Beam is a US open-weight answer to DeepSeek and Kimi, on paper
The 501-billion-parameter model's weights land under Apache 2.0 later in October, and Reflection's own chart shows Kimi K3 still ahead.
Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark priced $4,999 (about Php 313k) for the base model
The new entry-level model comes with half the memory and yet costs $1,000 more