A consortium of investors has acquired the operating assets of Lilium's two subsidiaries, Lilium GmbH and Lilium eAircraft GmbH, after the electric air taxi startup ceased operations and laid off 1,000 employees.

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Meta has launched a new chatbot, Meta AI, powered by its Llama 3 large language model. The chatbot is available for free on the web, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. It regurgitates web search results and doesn't excel at anything, but is a free option.

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Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas robot performed a backflip in a new video, showcasing its robustness and gymnastics abilities.

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Google is testing its Gemini AI model against Anthropic's Claude model, with contractors comparing answers and evaluating accuracy. Google's use of Claude is unclear, as it did not comment on obtaining permission.

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WordPress.org is taking a holiday break, stopping free services like new account registrations and plug-in reviews. This has led to a call for a 'federated' approach to WordPress from Joost de Valk, ex-CEO of Yoast.

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AI can be trained on synthetic data generated by another AI, which is gaining traction due to the scarcity of real data. Companies like Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI are using synthetic data to train their models.

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Samsung will hold its CES 2025 press conference on January 6, focusing on TVs, appliances, and consumer robots, with a tagline 'AI for All- Everyday, Everywhere'.

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Elon Musk's AI company xAI has raised $6 billion in new funding, bringing its total raised to $12 billion, with a valuation aiming for $50 billion.

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OpenAI's o3 model has shown promising performance on benchmarks, outscoring other models in general ability and math tests, suggesting AI scaling progress has not plateaued.

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Nvidia will hold its CES 2025 keynote on January 6, led by CEO Jensen Huang, where it is expected to make several big announcements, including details about its RTX 5000 series GPU.

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