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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over use of journalism to train AI - Asaase Radio

Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over AI Training on News Content - AI Insider

GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence - OpenAI

OpenAI hid AI agent hijacking of German wiki forum for weeks — because its model did the exact same thing in the Hugging Face attack - TechRadar

In-depth Interview with OpenAI President: Astra Is the First Model Trained on 100,000 GPUs, Crossing the “Application Threshold” - 富途牛牛

Newsday and Seattle Times Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Use of Their Articles - Times Of AI