AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?
Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand…
OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company…
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in…
Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger
Andreessen Horowitz general partner and Mistral board member Anjney “Anj” Midha first spied DeepSeek’s jaw-dropping performance six months ago, he tells TechCrunch.…
MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech dataset for AI research
MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of…
‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks
DeepSeek took the U.S. by storm this week: The Chinese company’s chatbot rose to the top of the Apple and Play stores, while major U.S. cloud…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court…
Indonesia Aims For AI Leadership With Digital Workforce Initiative
Recent agreements aim to equip one million talents with skills to drive economic growth and innovation. Indonesia is ambitiously positioning…
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model
in the company’s o family of reasoning models. OpenAI first previewed the model in December alongside a more capable system called o3, but…
Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
Microsoft says that it’s creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division that…
AI Is the New Business Advantage: What You Should Know
Technology is at the heart of our accelerating evolution, and we are all now beginning to recognize that AI is…
Will AI take over employee training next?
Artificial intelligence may not take employees’ jobs, but it could play a major role in teaching them how to do their jobs…
Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants for chip production
Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the…
Apple CEO says DeepSeek shows ‘innovation that drives efficiency’
Apple CEO Tim Cook said DeepSeek’s AI models represent “innovation that drives efficiency” during an earnings call Thursday while fielding questions from…
Google quietly announces its next flagship AI model
Update: Some users on social media report that the changelog has been updated to remove mention of Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental. The…
Intel won’t bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market
Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads. The move comes as Intel…
CWRU launches AI in Education initiative hub
Case Western Reserve University has unveiled the AI in Education initiative hub, a resource that serves as a one-stop shop for…
Apple quarterly revenue increases, even as China sales decline 11%
Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag, with slipping iPhone sales countered by rising revenue. Reporting after the bell Thursday,…
Gmail Security Warning For 2.5 Billion Users—AI Hack Confirmed
Hackers hiding in plain sight, avatars being used in novel attacks, and even perpetual 2FA-bypass threats against Google users have been reported. What a…
AI or Get Left Behind: How Smart Businesses Are Winning the Future
Why the future of business lies in augmented intelligence, ethical innovation, and hyper-personalised customer experiences. The rapid rise of artificial…