Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...
Amazon sues Perplexity, accusing it of computer fraud, after sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding it stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf
Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world's largest online marketplace …
Spotify plans to pay incentives to video creators who hit certain viewing thresholds and, in January 2025, to let Premium users view podcast videos without ads
and the platform is getting an upgrade with a series of new offerings to help creators like you grow an audience and monetize your content on Spotify, whether you're making audio o...
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model misses internal targets
Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer models.
Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners
OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. — Unlike the release of OpenAI's last two models …
A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features
The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death. — THE SHIFT
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race”
AI in a Box. But a different box. R1 provided by Rabbit for review. So this is the rabbit R1 and it's another AI …
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup
Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
Filing: OpenAI rebuts Elon Musk's lawsuit, saying OpenAI didn't violate its founding agreement because “there is no founding agreement, or any agreement at all”
right idea, wrong messenger South China Morning Post : ChatGPT creator OpenAI slams Elon Musk's claims as ‘incoherent’ in Microsoft-backed start-up's first legal response to tech b...
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year”
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B
Services revenue reaches new all-time record EPS up 16 percent to new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
Sources: Google told some cloud customers not to expect Gemini access until Q1 2024, after previously saying they would get access to the LLM by November 2023
Google's company-defining effort to catch up to ChatGPT creator OpenAI is turning out to be harder than expected.
IBM announces watsonx, a suite of AI services that includes watsonx.ai, an “enterprise studio for AI builders”, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance
IBM, like pretty much every tech giant these days, is betting big on AI. — At its annual Think conference …
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in...
Meta forms a team to add generative AI to its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox
Ina Fried / Axios :
Microsoft's Teams Premium hits general availability for $10 per user per month; AI-generated notes by OpenAI's GPT-3.5 are set to arrive “in the coming months”
As we face economic uncertainties and changes to work patterns, organizations are searching for ways to optimize …
A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more
Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Tweets: @glenngabe , @billyperrigo , @paulroetzer , @time , @eileentso , @jeffnesbit , @sarth...
Experts warn chatbots like ChatGPT and LaMDA pose a “hallucination” problem, reshaping what they have learned without regard for whether the end result is true
Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.