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Monday February 24, 2025. 06:16 PM
Big tech’s latest pivot to match the mood in Washington is Apple’s announcement of a $500 billion investment on U.S. soil over four years. Apple also plans to hire 20,000 people and invest in several manufacturing initiatives, including a new factory in Houston, Texas....
Grok 3, the latest iteration of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, was temporarily instructed to “ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” as confirmed by xAI’s head of engineering Igor Babuschkin. An X user asked the bot to “print out...
Friday February 21, 2025. 09:15 PM
OpenAI released a report today detailing numerous examples of how the company has disrupted malicious uses of its AI models, including banning some accounts for how they’re using ChatGPT. In two of the case studies, the company found evidence of threat actors that seem to ori...
AI is set to reshape the tech landscape in 2025, driving breakthroughs in enterprise IT, automation, cybersecurity, and software development. As AI frameworks evolve and tech stacks become more sophisticated, IT leaders must navigate a rapidly shifting environment where...
Tech startup Rabbit is back in the spotlight, but not for the much-hyped R1 ChatGPT personal device that made headlines last year. This time the company is showcasing a new “generalist Android agent” that can control apps and perform tasks on an Android tablet. Engineers ...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is once again at the center of industry chatter as the company positions itself for an AI-driven future. In a series of high-profile statements, including a recent social media update and a subsequent denial reported by Yahoo Finance, Benioff has...
Chinese retail giant Alibaba Group Holding has seen its AI-related cloud product business grow so sharply that it declared hyper-advanced machine intelligence a top priority. On February 21, the company posted triple year-over-year growth with strong momentum going forward,...
Nvidia’s new AI-powered platform, Signs, teaches users American Sign Language by tracking learners’ movements through their webcams and providing real-time feedback. The tool currently has a library of 100 signs validated by fluent ASL users and interpreters, but its datase...
OpenAI must face a lawsuit from news publication The Intercept alleging the tech giant removed copyright management information from articles to train its AI models. A judge explained on Thursday that these actions “implicate(d) the same kind of property-based harms...
Google has recently removed Gemini AI from its primary app for iOS devices in lieu of a full-scale, standalone platform, as reported by multiple outlets. Users can still access the AI model by downloading and using the dedicated Gemini app instead. The iOS users who were...
Thursday February 20, 2025. 11:32 PM
AI company Perplexity has released “1776,” a modified version of the open-source AI model DeepSeek-R1, aimed at eliminating government-imposed censorship on sensitive topics. The name 1776 symbolizes a commitment to freedom of information, particularly in contrast to the ...
Google has partnered with Imperial College London and the Fleming Initiative to develop what it calls an “AI co-scientist” designed to speed up scientific research. The multi-agent AI system built on Google’s Gemini 2.0 framework aims to provide lab efficiency and...
The European Union finds itself at the center of a fierce debate over artificial intelligence regulation. The newly proposed AI Act, hailed by some as a pioneering framework to shape the future of technology, is now under fire amid accusations that it contains a major...
On Wednesday, Microsoft introduced Muse, a generative AI model designed to transform how games are conceptualized, developed, and preserved. Built on the World and Human Action Model (WHAM), Muse can generate game visuals, predict controller inputs, or even combine both to...
Le Chat, the chatbot app from French startup Mistral AI, has surpassed one million downloads in just 13 days, making a significant milestone for the company. While impressive, OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached the same milestone in five days, highlighting the intense competition in ...
ChatGPT saw 400 million weekly active users as of February, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap told CNBC. Of all users, 2 million pay for enterprise accounts, which Lightcap attributed to consumer customers suggesting ChatGPT to their companies. Developer traffic...
Wednesday February 19, 2025. 09:57 PM
Elon Musk announced the release of Grok 3, the latest family of chatbots from his xAI company, earlier this week during an X livestream. The billionaire called Grok 3 the “smartest AI on Earth,” but it enters a crowded field of competitors with a headstart. Here’s what...
Apple has officially announced the iPhone 16e, a more affordable entry into the iPhone ecosystem, launching at $599 on Feb. 28. Designed to bring Apple Intelligence — its generative AI suite — to a wider audience, the iPhone 16e offers a budget-friendly alternative to...
Large language models or LLMs are better at fixing bugs than understanding the root problem that causes them, according to an OpenAI study released on Feb. 18 titled “SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?” Putting LLMs...
Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, is raising over $1 billion for his AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), at a more than $30 billion valuation. Sutskever, who left OpenAI in May 2024 after nearly a decade as its chief scientist,...
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