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Google is about to make Gemini a core part of Workspaces—with price changes

New plans will be cheaper for those who want Gemini, pricier for those who don't. The Google Gemini logo. Credit: Google Google has added AI features to its regular Workspace accounts for...

AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report

As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job...

You can love or hate AI, but it’s killed crappy 8GB versions of pricey PCs and Macs

Op-ed: AI has been a cure for $1,600 computers that start with 8GB of...

OpenAI defends for-profit shift as critical to sustain humanitarian mission

Elon Musk may be the last obstacle to stop OpenAI’s for-profit shift. Credit: Anadolu / Contributor...

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks. Credit: Benj...

Google’s Gemini AI plan for schools promises extra data protection and privacy

Google is also improving Chromebook accessibility with features like a better magnifier that follows along as you read. Google will soon offer schools access to Gemini...

Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype

AI model updates galore at Google I/O, including 2M context window, Imagen 3, Veo, and more. Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o, which it bills...

AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails

Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact. Google's Gemini AI often just feels like a chatbot built into a text-input...

Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with AI Overviews

What's the best pilates studio within walking distance that has new member Search is still important to Google, but soon it will change. At its...

Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name

Anonymous chatbot that mystified and frustrated experts was OpenAI's latest model. On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as "gpt-chatbot"...

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

New GPT-4o model can sing a bedtime story, detect facial expressions, read emotions. On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4o (o for "omni"), a major new AI model that...

Exploration-focused training lets robotics AI immediately handle new tasks

Maximum Diffusion Reinforcement Learning focuses training on end states, not process. Reinforcement-learning algorithms in systems like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini can work wonders, but they...

OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch

The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached. OpenAI is eventually coming for the most popular website on the Internet: Google Search....

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire. The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating...

OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections

OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector. As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly...

Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up. Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for...

New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini

In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters. Microsoft is working on a new large-scale AI language model called MAI-1, which...

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

Sources say to expect OpenAI's next major AI model mid-2024, according to a new report. When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created...

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

OpenAI's GPT-2 running locally in Microsoft Excel teaches the basics of how LLMs work. It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these...