One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another. According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to...Read More
In Brief Posted: 2:03 PM PDT · July 12, 2025 Image Credits:UNU-CPR/404 Media A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people...Read More
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the...Read More
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” While Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements to look...Read More
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Nikkei...Read More
In Brief Posted: 10:36 AM PDT · July 5, 2025 Image Credits:Google A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over...Read More
In Brief Posted: 1:16 PM PDT · June 29, 2025 Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto / Getty Images With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly...Read More
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools,...Read More
In Brief Posted: 11:31 AM PDT · June 28, 2025 Image Credits:Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI. Earlier this week, TechCrunch...Read More
Image Credits:OpenAI 3:24 PM PDT · June 22, 2025 OpenAI has pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally,...Read More