In Brief Posted: 1:48 PM PDT · May 4, 2025 Image Credits:Duolingo Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move...Read More
Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish!...Read More
In Brief Posted: 8:15 AM PDT · April 27, 2025 Image Credits:Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto / Getty Images AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually...Read More
In Brief Posted: 2:09 PM PDT · April 26, 2025 Image Credits:Gabby Jones / Bloomberg / Getty Images Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to...Read More
In Brief Posted: 10:12 AM PDT · April 20, 2025 Image Credits:Nathan Laine/Bloomberg / Getty Images “I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying...Read More
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation, according...Read More
Microsoft has released a browser-based, playable level of the classic video game Quake II. This functions as a tech demo for the gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot AI platform —...Read More
Apple is developing a new version of its Health app that includes an AI coach that can advise users on how to get healthier, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman...Read More
In Brief Posted: 12:51 PM PDT · March 30, 2025 Image Credits:Kimberly White for TechCrunch / Getty Images Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas recently took to Reddit to address users’ product...Read More
In Brief Posted: 1:22 PM PDT · March 29, 2025 Image Credits:Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the...Read More
