On Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI announced “We’re saying goodbye to Sora,” the video generation tool that it launched at the end of 2024, and centered in a massive licensing deal with Disney only a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal reported the move earlier, saying that OpenAI boss Sam Altman had informed staff that both […]
Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these policies to fortify what they build.
Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.
OpenAI says it’s moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.
Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip’s first customer.
With an overflowing war chest from its recent $5 billion raise, Databricks is buying startups and looking for more. It acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai.
The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.
Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.
A “major artificial intelligence company” reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.
Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.
The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.
Lawmakers call for commerce department to suspend licences that let company send advanced semiconductors to south-east Asia
Film studios may find that the advantages they reap from investing in new technology get competed away
Roland Busch warns against throttling ‘innovation speed for the sake of creating sovereignty’
UNLEASH sits down for an interview with Katie Watson, CHRO at Western Digital, to find out why intentionality is the cornerstone of HR leadership strategy as AI and automation transformation both work and the workforce.
Lyra Health’s sixth annual report finds that employees worldwide are struggling with compounding mental health pressures.
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This International Women’s Day, new research suggests the pay gap between men and women at the executive level is narrowing.
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HR leader Aly Sparks on how internal mobility helps close skills gaps, support blended workforces and keep talent moves human in an AI era.
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Labor said it has restored ERISA’s five-part test for determining who is an investment advice fiduciary.
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Hiring the right person, and the right outcomes follow. The science behind selection is sound. What happens next is not measured at all.
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Since Illinois’ Limit Predictive Analytics Use Act took effect, workplace AI risk is no longer a theoretical compliance concern. It’s a live litigation issue. Employers now face a civil right of action tied to discriminatory AI use and failures to disclose. Illinois isn’t a quirky outlier. It’s one visible node in a fast-emerging national patchwork, […]
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Evidence cited in an eBook titled “AI Quantum Resilience”, published by Utimaco [email wall], shows organisations consider security risks as the leading barrier to effective adoption of AI on data they hold. AI’s value depends on data amassed by an organisation. However, there are security risks to building models and training them on that data. […]
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World Models (WMs) are a central framework for developing agents that reason and plan in a compact latent space. However, training these models directly from pixel data often leads to ‘representation collapse,’ where the model produces redundant embeddings to trivially satisfy prediction objectives. Current approaches attempt to prevent this by relying on complex heuristics: they […]
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ChatGPT introduces richer, visually immersive shopping powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling product discovery, side-by-side comparisons, and merchant integration.
The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.
Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.
The host of MS Now’s All In, knows how hard it is to stay current. But he also knows where you should focus your attention—and it starts with a sober view of AI.
Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks in its Code and Cowork AI tools autonomously by using your computer for you. The new feature can be used to automatically open files, use web browsers and apps, and run dev tools “with no setup required,” even when you’re away from your computer, according to Anthropic’s announcement. […]
Agile Robots will incorporate Google DeepMind’s robotics foundation models into its bots while collecting data for the AI research lab.
Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF).
The company said it would design models, hardware, and interfaces in tandem to deliver a “seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product.”
Investor uncertainty intensifies as AI impacts on the enterprise software industry emerge
Offenders exploit new technology to mass-produce increasingly violent illegal material
Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments
The UNLEASH Editorial team was on-site in Las Vegas last week. Our Chief Reporter, Allie Nawrat, shares her key learnings from the show.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI companies to train on…
