The latest in our series of articles on venture funding to non-tech founders features a former magician’s assistant and ballet dancer who’s building cybersecurity software with $4.2 million in seed funding.
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with zero output tokens. The target is real-time decisions on the […]
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GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.
Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.
College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens is an “unacceptable risk.” ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help students learn, but Common Sense Media says that the teen […]
DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 300 restaurants signed up in the Bay Area, where it’s operating as a pre-seed startup. But this summer, Bites […]
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a “virtual cell” that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters. The project is led by Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. […]
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple’s App Store, the latest update to Meta’s Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta’s agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT’s Dots, and Grok Bot) was released about a […]
OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. “College Planner brings together application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for schools on a student’s list in one plan,” OpenAI says. “Students applying to several […]
Microsoft’s Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It’s pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other components. The Dev Box’s flat, 3D-printed anodized […]
At today’s Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It’s part of an idea Microsoft is calling “Hybrid Intelligence,” where apps and tools rely on a mix of […]
Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB […]
OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, and more. In a blog post explaining the […]
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Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.
The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to earn consumers’ trust.
The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.
Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.
OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
The real risk of generative artificial intelligence is not that we will trust it completely, but that we will stop caring enough to check
S&P 500 earnings are forecast to rise 27% against a backdrop of stock market highs and elevated longer-term borrowing costs
Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Laya, the open-source zero-shot decision engine. Learn how to implement typed decisions, fit custom temperatures, and build reliable abstention gates using real-world CLINC150 banking data.
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Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, the C++ and Python library it has used for over 9 years to place shards, servers and traffic. It handles about 40 million assignment problems a day, using local search or MIP solvers like Gurobi, FICO Xpress and HiGHS. It is pip-installable under Apache 2.0.
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Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research. See how longer-running AI workflows combine multiple data sources with human review.
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community while raising questions about research ethics and […]
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
