AI

Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run

Stock index switch-up reflects symbolic market shift as chip industry refocuses around AI. Credit: rasslava via Getty Images On Friday, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that AI chipmaker Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow...

OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows

New Alt+Space shortcut puts OpenAI's assistant a key press away at all times. Credit: Benj...

Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content

New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner permission. A screen capture...

Reports: Tesla’s prototype Optimus robots were controlled by humans

But the prototypes used "artificial intelligence" to control their walking. A photo of Tesla's Optimus...

Cloudflare moves to end free, endless AI scraping with one-click blocking

Cloudflare may charge an app store-like fee for its AI-scraping data marketplace. Cloudflare announced new tools Monday...

Gen AI Alexa to use Anthropic tech after it “struggled for words” with Amazon’s

Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic has been under investigation. The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily...

ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?

Despite corporate prohibitions on AI use, people flock to the chatbot in record numbers. On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active...

New Geekbench AI benchmark can test the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Performance test comes out of beta as NPUs become standard equipment in PCs. Neural processing units (NPUs) are becoming commonplace in chips from Intel and...

Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime

Facing time constraints, Sakana's "AI Scientist" attempted to change limits placed by researchers. On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called...

ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing

Woolf: "OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror's next season." On Thursday, OpenAI released the "system card" for ChatGPT's new GPT-4o AI model that details model...

Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

De Kraker: "If OpenAI is right on the verge of AGI, why do prominent people keep leaving?" Over the past week, OpenAI experienced a significant...

Google pulls its terrible pro-AI “Dear Sydney” ad after backlash

Taking the "human" out of "human communication." Have you seen Google's "Dear Sydney" ad? The one where a young girl wants to write a fan letter...

Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed to explain recent changes to safety efforts. OpenAI is facing increasing pressure to prove it's not hiding AI risks after...

Next-gen Intel Core Ultra chips with boosted GPU and NPU are coming in September

Lunar Lake will be Intel's response to Ryzen AI and Snapdragon X Elite chips. Intel announced today that it plans to launch its next-generation Core Ultra...

Nothing’s new AI widget is trying to make its CFO a news star

Its news app is available on all Nothing and CMF handsets, including the new Phone (2a) Plus. Nothing has a new smartphone—the Phone (2a) Plus—nearly...

Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO

Steve Huffman says companies must pay to scrape Reddit data. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the...

“AI toothbrushes” are coming for your teeth—and your data

App-connected toothbrushes bring new privacy concerns to the bathroom. One of the most unlikely passengers on the AI gadgets hype train is the toothbrush. With claims of...

We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands

Gen-3 Alpha produces wild and whimsical results. Here's what it cooked up for us. In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha....

Google, its cat fully escaped from bag, shows off the Pixel 9 Pro weeks early

Upcoming phone is teased with an AI breakup letter to "the same old thing." After every one of its house-brand phones, and even its new...