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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 Edwards / Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images On Friday, during Day 12 of its "12 days...

Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features

Google barrels ahead with a push into AI systems that take action for you. Credit: Google On...

Itch.io platform briefly goes down due to “AI-driven” anti-phishing report

Domain registrar failed to respond after offending content was taken down. Losing your domain is...

OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier

OpenAI's full "o1" AI model is "smaller and faster," and ChatGPT Pro users get...

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

OpenAI and Palmer Luckey's weapons company sign agreement to explore lethal drone defense for...

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits

OpenAI is now a "closed-source de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft, says lawsuit. Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman for breach...

Amazon to spend $1 billion on startups that combine AI with robots

“We’re also a long way off from replacing all humans.” Amazon’s $1 billion industrial innovation fund is to step up investments in companies that combine...

OpenAI accuses NYT of hacking ChatGPT to set up copyright suit

OpenAI “bizarrely” mischaracterizes hacking, NYT lawyer says. OpenAI is now boldly claiming that The New York Times "paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products" like ChatGPT...

Reddit cashes in on AI gold rush with $203M in LLM training license fees

Two- to three-year deals with Google, others, come amid legal uncertainty over "fair use." The last week saw word leak that Google had agreed to license Reddit's...

ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users

Reddit user: "It's not just you, ChatGPT is having a stroke." On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI's AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit...

Google plans “Gemini Business” AI for Workspace users

Google's first swing at this idea, "Duet AI," was an extra $30 per user per month. One of Google's most lucrative businesses consists of packaging...

Will Smith parodies viral AI-generated video by actually eating spaghetti

Actor pokes fun at 2023 AI video by eating spaghetti messily and claiming it's AI-generated On Monday, Will Smith posted a video on his official Instagram...

Microsoft says nation-state hackers are using its AI tools

State-backed hackers from Russia, China, and Iran have been using tools from Microsoft-backed OpenAI to hone their skills and trick their targets. According to a...

Tesla simulation and video generation are the ‘best in the world’: Musk

Elon Musk has touted real-world simulation and video generation at Tesla, following the release of OpenAI’s Sora generative video model. OpenAI announced the text-to-video generative...

Meta Unmasks Hundreds Of AI Spies On Facebook And Instagram Made By Italian Surveillance Dealers

Nearly 1,000 fake profiles with AI-generated images have been posing as protesters, journalists and young women, Meta warns, and they appeared to be targeted...

Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s

For around three years now, the team of independent developers behind the Asahi Linux project has worked to support Linux on Apple Silicon Macs,...

US says AI models can’t hold patents

Inventors must be human, but there's still a condition where AI can officially help. On Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidance on...

OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory

AI chatbot "memory" will recall facts from previous conversations when enabled. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is experimenting with adding a form of long-term memory to...

Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors

OpenAI plans to defeat authors' remaining claim at a "later stage" of the case. A US district judge in California has largely sided with OpenAI,...