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We present Durian, the first method for generating portrait animation videos with facial attribute transfer from a given reference image to a target portrait in a zero-shot manner. To enable high-fidelity and spatially consistent attribute transfer across frames, we introduce dual reference networks that inject spatial features from both the portrait and attribute images into the denoising process of a diffusion model. We train the model using a self-reconstruction formulation, where two frames are sampled from the same portrait video: one is treated as the attribute reference and the other as the target portrait, and the remaining frames are reconstructed…

French AI startup Mistral AI is reportedly on the verge of finalizing a massive €2 billion funding round. This new capital injection would propel the company’s valuation to a staggering $14 billion, marking an extraordinary leap from its mid-2024 estimate of €5.8 billion. The Paris-based firm, founded by former DeepMind and Meta alumni in 2023, is rapidly asserting itself as a major global player, developing powerful open-source large language models (LLMs) and its homegrown chatbot, Le Chat. Mistral: A New European AI Leader Emerges Mistral AI’s meteoric ascent underscores a significant shift in the tech landscape, challenging the long-standing dominance…

TMTPOST — Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) star DeepSeek appears to jump into the AI agent race, expanding its disruptive challenges to U.S. competitors including OpenAI. AI Generated Image DeepSeek is developing an AI model with more advanced AI agent features, and its founder Liang Wenfeng is pushing his team to launch the new system in the fourth quarter of the year, Bloomberg cited anonymous sources on Thursday. AI agent is a kind of digital assistant that can complete tasks ranging for place orders online to coding without a lot of human oversight. The DeepSeek model is reportedly designed to carry…

What if the future of work wasn’t just about automation but about collaboration, between humans and intelligent agents? Imagine a world where multi-agent AI systems seamlessly coordinate tasks, adapt to real-time changes, and refine their outputs through iterative learning, all while working alongside us. This isn’t science fiction; it’s the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, and few are better equipped to guide us through this transformation than Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI innovation. With industries racing to adopt agentic AI systems, understanding how to architect these technologies isn’t just a technical challenge, it’s a strategic imperative for staying relevant…

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) attends a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House on September 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesOpenAI has announced it is developing an AI-centered jobs platform as part of broader efforts to expand AI literacy, and as the company grows its consumer and business-facing AI applications.The ChatGPT maker’s “OpenAI Jobs Platform” will utilize AI to help connect qualified job candidates to companies, which could put it in competition with Microsoft’s LinkedIn. OpenAI and Microsoft have an…

C3.ai Inc (NYSE: AI) has named Stephen Ehikian as its new chief executive following a turbulent earnings report that sent shares tumbling 9% in trading on Thursday.The company had pre-announced its fiscal Q1 miss on August 11 – triggering a 25% decline at the time. Speaking with CNBC this morning, executive chairman Thomas Siebel called the quarter “a disaster”, citing execution errors and leadership transitions.With Ehikian stepping in, investors are watching closely to see whether his background can restore momentum and stabilize the C3 AI stock. Here are four key skills he brings – and why they matter.How Ehikian’s experience…

Large Language Models (LLMs) can comply with harmful instructions, raising serious safety concerns despite their impressive capabilities. Recent work has leveraged probing-based approaches to study the separability of malicious and benign inputs in LLMs’ internal representations, and researchers have proposed using such probing methods for safety detection. We systematically re-examine this paradigm. Motivated by poor out-of-distribution performance, we hypothesize that probes learn superficial patterns rather than semantic harmfulness. Through controlled experiments, we confirm this hypothesis and identify the specific patterns learned: instructional patterns and trigger words. Our investigation follows a systematic approach, progressing from demonstrating comparable performance of simple n-gram…

The new AI model may be released by year-end What’s the story China-based artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepSeek, is developing a new agentic generative AI model, as per Bloomberg. Agentic AI is the latest trend in AI technology, where digital assistants can perform tasks with minimal human intervention. These agents can do anything from coding to online shopping, ordering food, or planning vacations. The specifics of DeepSeek’s agentic AI model are still unclear. However, an August update to DeepSeek’s V3 model was described as a “first step toward the agent era.” DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model challenged US AI firms Earlier…

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to offer a fully integrated solution with VAST Data, using the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, to accelerate RAG pipelines and enable agentic AI at scale News Summary: Cisco to offer a validated solution with VAST Data to enable faster data extraction and retrieval for agentic AI.Cisco AI PODs leverage VAST InsightEngine to offer an NVIDIA AI Data Platform solution, providing real-time data pipelines for the Secure AI Factory.Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA will extend its capabilities, providing a validated architecture that…