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OpenAI recently had both good news and bad news for shareholders. Revenue growth from ChatGPT is accelerating at a more rapid rate than the company projected half a year ago. The bad news? The computing costs to develop artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, and other data ...

Most satellite constellations exceed recommended brightness levels, with some even visible to the naked eye.

OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.

Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it’s no longer detecting issues with its Azure cloud platform after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut.

All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.

A few years back, Brandon Gell, chief operating officer of Every, an artificial intelligence–focused media startup, couldn’t stop staring at a photo taken at the headquarters of another startup, Notion, a maker of productivity software. “It was of their entryway, and it was just shoes—this ...

I wrote about the details of this case when it was found that Anthropic's training on book content was fair use, but they needed to have purchased individual copies of …

A new proposed class action suit accuses Apple of illegally using books to train its AI models. Here are the details.

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.

Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of...

At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.

President Trump threatens trade investigation to nullify “unfair penalties”

Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors’ copyright lawsuit over the AI company’s downloading of millions of pirated books, one of the largest settlements over artificial intelligence and intellectual property to date.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Trump at a White House dinner after a U.S. judge issued a favorable ruling in the landmark antitrust case against Alphabet.

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In a landmark collaboration across 22 labs, neuroscientists have created the first brain-wide map of decision-making in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly 280 brain regions. They found that decision-making is distributed much more broadly than previously thought, involving not just "c...

What would you think if Apple set up a company to buy iPhones and then rented those devices back for use by Apple staffers? It would make you wonder, right? Yet that’s more or less what Nvidia has taken to doing. As we reported today, Nvidia has struck a couple of deals to rent its own chips ...

Meta wants poking to make a comeback on Facebook for some reason.

Visualizing the internal state of a Transformer model

The Trump administration is taking steps to make it easier for automakers to deploy self-driving cars by removing some requirements designed specifically for human drivers — like windshield wipers.

Eventually it’ll come to Android too.

Google Photos now offers Veo 3 for turning images into short videos.

President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Ap…

The lawsuit was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.

OpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.