AI Weekly News Update: 03/03/2025

Alexa has a new brain.

Apple will reportedly release a new version of Siri with merged architecture in 2026, but a proper generative AI overhaul will take longer to arrive.

A group of AI researchers have discovered a curious phenomenon: models say some pretty toxic stuff after being fine-tuned on insecure code.

The AI model praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, encouraged self-harm and advocated for its superiority over humankind.

The Hunyuan Turbo S is able to reply to queries within a second, distinguishing itself "from DeepSeek R1.

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Measuring poverty is the first step to delivering support, but it has long been a costly, time-intensive and contentious endeavour.

300 million single cell atlas now accessible to the scientific community comprised of Vevo's Tahoe-100M, mapping 60,000 drug-cell interactions, and Arc’s AI-curated scBaseCamp 200 million cell dataset generated using Vevo’s Mosaic platform, Tahoe-100M leveraged Parse Biosciences’ GigaLab for single cell sample preparation and Ultima Genomics for sequencing.

Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund, CNBC reported. Although the majority

Honor is looking to expand outside of China and push into the higher-end part of the market where Apple and Samsung play.

When facing the possibility of nuclear war, human beings exhibit a level of thoughtfulness and compassion that AI might not possess.