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Fintech Giant Stripe Launches a Foundational Model for Payments

Fintech Giant Stripe Launches a Foundational Model for Payments

Stripe said that the model boosted detection of card-testing attacks on large enterprises by 64% almost instantly
The Left Shift Bureau 08 May 2025
Visa Wants an AI Agent to 'Find & Buy' on User's Behalf

Visa Wants an AI Agent to 'Find & Buy' on User's Behalf

Visa is collaborating with Anthropic, IBM, Microsoft, Mistral AI, OpenAI, Perplexity, Samsung, Stripe and more
The Left Shift Bureau 04 May 2025
Chatbot Arena Favoured Major AI Firms by Hiding Underperforming Model Data

Chatbot Arena Favoured Major AI Firms by Hiding Underperforming Model Data

For example, Meta tested 27 models before Llama 4’s release
The Left Shift Bureau 01 May 2025
Duolingo Shifts to AI Over Human Contractors

Duolingo Shifts to AI Over Human Contractors

In an internal email, von Ahn told staff that the company would “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle
The Left Shift Bureau 01 May 2025
Freepik Launches AI Image Model Called F Lite

Freepik Launches AI Image Model Called F Lite

F Lite is open-source, is fully commercially usable, features 10 billion parameters, and was trained on 80 million fully licensed images.
The Left Shift Bureau 30 Apr 2025
Musk Confirms on X Grok 3.5 Will Release on May 5

Musk Confirms on X Grok 3.5 Will Release on May 5

'Grok is reasoning from first principles and coming up with answers that simply don’t exist on the Internet,' Musk said
The Left Shift Bureau 29 Apr 2025
Alibaba's Qwen 3 is Better than OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini

Alibaba's Qwen 3 is Better than OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini

It trails behind OpenAI’s latest o4-mini (high) model in coding and math tasks.
The Left Shift Bureau 29 Apr 2025

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