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"Chat is dead": OpenAI preps overhaul of ChatGPT
OpenAI to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO.
The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary
Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used?
School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.
The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"
The Air succeeds as a minimalist, reliable fitness tracker, but Google's AI Health Coach feels unnecessary.
Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit
The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing AI-written submissions are causing some to burn out and quit
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra Powers Faster, More Efficient Reasoning for Long-Running Agents
Single-turn chatbots are evolving into long-running agents that can reason, maintain context, use tools, and run efficiently across many turns to complete...
Superintelligent machines may well need us after all
Despite AI's dizzying improvements in mathematical ability, its successes show just how integral human mathematicians are to the scientific process
The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it's taking this very seriously.
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations
One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say
Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.
Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
“This is a public trust and transparency issue.”
Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"
"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.
Most "inner work" looks like entertainment.
Imagine you’re looking for a personal trainer. You open one trainer’s webpage and read their testimonials: “I had an experience tied for the most intense experiences of my life” ; “They do it all with fun, care, and a sense of humour.” You notice that none of the testimonials mention improved body composition, fitness, or bloodwork. What would you think? Personal training should improve your body. Inner work should improve your life. If inner work were optimized for results, what would we expect to see? I’d expect to see success stories: people who got undeniable life changes. Like: He was si…
Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar
"Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.
Start learning with Google’s new AI Educator Series.
Free AI literacy training is available to all 6 million K-12 and higher education teachers across the U.S.
Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”
But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.
Quoting Boris Mann
“11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing. — Boris Mann Tags: ai-agents , ai , agent-definitions
The case for fine-grained tracking of compute for AI
TL;DR Current approaches to tracking AI compute primarily rely on a handful of hardware proxies (like FLOP/s and bandwidth) that primarily track GPU progress. These metrics are becoming less useful for accurately tracking compute for AI because they (1) measure theoretical ceilings rather than actual performance, (2) as architectures diversify away from a GPU/TPU-dominant paradigm, the metrics are becoming less comparable across different architecture types and less likely to follow historical trends, and (3) they miss second-order effects from improving design and manufacturing processes. We…
Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google
Luma is making its Uni-1.1 image model available via API, with prices starting at $0.04 per image at 2,048-pixel resolution. On the Arena leaderboard, the model ranks third, right behind Google and OpenAI. The API includes web search, built-in reasoning, and support for up to nine reference images. The article Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google appeared first on The Decoder .
Vibe Excel and the Future of White-Collar Work
This post was originally posted my Substack . I can be reached on X and LinkedIn . For the past few months, I’ve been trying to “vibe Excel” (using ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Excel add-ons for investment workflows). My takeaway is that while AI tooling for finance is still relatively immature, its potential to disrupt financial services is clear. This raises an important question: if AI for software engineering went from novelty to ubiquity in ~2.5 years, how quickly will AI diffuse across other knowledge-work domains? My view is that the bottleneck to AI adoption has shifted. In coding, the mai…
Broadcom reportedly won't build OpenAI's custom chip unless Microsoft buys 40 percent of them
OpenAI's custom AI chip project with Broadcom has hit a funding wall. Broadcom won't finance production unless Microsoft commits to buying 40 percent of the chips, and Microsoft hasn't agreed yet. OpenAI manager Sachin Katti called the dependency "financially unattractive" in an internal message. The first phase alone costs around 18 billion dollars. The article Broadcom reportedly won't build OpenAI's custom chip unless Microsoft buys 40 percent of them appeared first on The Decoder .