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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> There’s been a lot of AI news this week, and covering it sometimes feels like running through a hall full of danging CRTs, just like this Getty Images illustration. (credit: Grandfailure via Getty Images<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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It’s been a wildly busy week in AI news thanks to OpenAI, including a controversial blog post<\/a> from CEO Sam Altman, the wide rollout<\/a> of Advanced Voice Mode, 5GW data center rumors<\/a>, major staff<\/a> shake-ups, and dramatic restructuring plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the rest of the AI world doesn’t march to the same beat, doing its own thing and churning out<\/a> new AI models and research by the minute. Here’s a roundup of some other notable AI news from the past week.<\/p>\n

Google Gemini updates<\/h2>\n
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On Tuesday, Google announced<\/a> updates to its Gemini model lineup, including the release of two new production-ready models that iterate on past releases: Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002. The company reported improvements in overall quality, with notable gains in math, long context handling, and vision tasks. Google claims a 7 percent increase in performance on the MMLU-Pro<\/a> benchmark and a 20 percent improvement in math-related tasks. But as you know, if you’ve been reading Ars Technica for a while, AI typically benchmarks aren’t as useful<\/a> as we would like them to be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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