Speaking in an interview with Decoded by Politico, Altman was asked about the difference between OpenAI and rival Anthropic's approaches to AI safety, which has obviously been getting a lot of attention lately.
Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. However, that subscription is also getting a…
President Donald Trump today put Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge of a new federal artificial intelligence task force, making him the administration’s second AI czar. Trump revealed the group in a Truth Social post, calling it the Super Intelligence Force. That name tracks an executive order he signed last week directing federal…
Pedram Rezaei, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, will work on the Kiro coding tool and the Quick workplace assistant at AWS. He's the latest Microsoft executive to make the move this year.
For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to predict what customers would buy, and shipped data pipelines that moved information between business systems. I built and scaled analytics teams at Best Buy and Target, studying how customers shop and what stores should stock.
AI trust increasingly determines whether enterprise AI scales. As organizations move beyond pilots and put models and agents into operational systems, the question is no longer whether AI performs well in isolation. Enterprises also have to determine whether the infrastructure, data and applications underneath it can withstand cyberattacks, data integrity failures and operational disruption. That…
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI has secured $11 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Abstract, Audacious Ventures, Nova, and SV Angel. The company is developing a personal computer designed specifically to run autonomous personal AI agents. [1][2]
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation…
Apple’s attempt to integrate AI into its various operating systems hasn’t been entirely well received, nor has the decision to make Apple Intelligence increasingly difficult to disable completely. Thankfully, the open source community has come to the rescue.
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving fast and breaking things,…
Reflection AI Inc. today introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion parameters. The launch comes a few months after the startup raised funding at a $25 billion valuation. Around the same time, Reflection AI reportedly inked a $6.3 billion deal with SpaceX Corp. to rent Nvidia GB300 NVL72 appliances. It used those…
Utah has authorized healthcare startup Nolla Health to launch a pilot project allowing its artificial intelligence system to autonomously issue prescriptions and refills for acne treatments with minimal human physician oversight. [1][2]
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
Google is temporarily pausing monetary rewards for capable bug hunters because its human staff can't keep up with the current influx of automated reports. The "vast majority" of these submissions are slop, Google warns, containing invalid information and hallucinated vulnerability data.
Industrial automation startup RobCo Inc. today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round. Most of the shares that changed hands were sold by current and former employees. The investor consortium that bought the equity included Sequoia, Lightspeed and several other startup funds. RobCo is now valued at more than $1 billion, double…
OpenAI is now offering API customers the option to watermark the output of certain models in order to comply with the letter of Europe's AI Act. And within a few weeks, the biz plans to apply a form of digital watermarking – like it or not – to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union.
OpenAI today announced how it will comply with the EU AI Act, which requires providers of generative AI systems to mark AI-generated text in a way that makes it identifiable. Here are the details.