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China's AI assistant has officially entered the chat, and it's putting the U.S. on notice. DeepSeek surged to the top of Apple's App Store over the weekend, surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT with lightning-fast, highly logical responses. Some users claim its natural language processing, writing quality and reasoning surpass U.S. counterparts including OpenAI, Meta and Google.

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Chatbots can be genuinely impressive when you watch them do things they're good at, like writing realistic-sounding text or creating weird futuristic-looking images. But try to ask generative AI to solve one of those puzzles you find in the back of a newspaper, and things can quickly go off the rails.

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Amazon is expanding access to its health care virtual assistant, Health AI, the company said on Tuesday. This feature was originally available only to One Medical members, but it will now be available to most customers on the Amazon app and website. It'll be rolled out over the next few weeks, with the goal of making it available to all US Amazon customers.

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Gemini is getting a new feature in the form of notebooks, further integrating with NotebookLM, Google announced on Wednesday.
NotebookLM is easily one of Google's best AI tools available. It allows you to add sources to a notebook and ask questions or generate a series of outputs, based only on the material you've given it, making it self-contained.

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AI on the Lot, the tech conference focused entirely on AI and filmmaking, took place at Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City last week. I was there for part of the sold-out event among nearly 2,500 people, who were all milling about from soundstages to theaters to get educated on everything artificial intelligence can do for Hollywood.

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Fans waiting on Spider-Man: Brand New Day now have something to track besides the film's release date. On Tuesday morning, Samsung teased SpideyTracker.com, a new interactive fan site that it says "brings to life a key element" of the upcoming MCU film -- specifically, a website that exists within the movie.

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