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Ten stories selected from the week's AI coverage, with a disclosed heat score.
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04US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systemsThe US Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying services from the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. They've also been told to delete the AI from their systems.Heat 80.105Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditionsMicrosoft claims its new diagnostic tool outperforms human doctors by up to four times in accuracy. CEO Mustafa Suleyman told The Verge that it's betterHeat 77.006OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats upOpenAI has made its Decisions API model widely available, and it’s a Jev competitor in the decision-model market. The move comes as competition in fast, cheap decision intelligence heats up.Heat 76.807In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your MuseMeta's share price fell sharply after the company reported lower-than-expected earnings during its quarterly call. Mark Zuckerberg told investors that in Meta's future, you'll have your Muse call someone else's Muse.Heat 76.508Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’Anthropic has announced the creation of a public benefit fund. It's committing 5% of its shares to this wholly-owned entity.Heat 73.609Inception’s Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the waitInception has released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model. It's claimed to outperform GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while generating at a fraction of the wait.Heat 73.410OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPOOpenAI is reportedly close to securing a new $30 billion private funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation. It's pursuing this mega round instead of ploughing ahead with an IPO.Heat 73.2How the heat score works
Each story is scored out of 100: model-rated significance from the title and excerpt contributes 55 points, recency 25, similar coverage across the week 15, and a model-launch keyword signal 5. Only posts with a significance score are eligible. This score is a selection aid, not a fact-check. Near-duplicate coverage is collapsed before the final ten are published.
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