Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

AI chatbots have been with us three years and one month (at least the kind that use large language models (LLMs) to communicate with natural-sounding words). Already norms are emerging in some professions for users to disclose how they use AI. For example: Organizations such as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors created policies for disclosing AI use in scientific manuscripts.

Elon Musk said Tesla will raise subscription prices for its Full Self-Driving software as it gets better, and it could cost more than $100. The Tesla CEO said in an early Friday X post, "I should also mention that the $99/month for supervised FSD will rise as FSD's capabilities improve." "The massive value jump is when you can be on your phone or sleeping for the entire ride (unsupervised FSD)," he said.

OpenAI has pulled in a billion-dollar month from something other than ChatGPT. Sam Altman said in a post on X on Thursday that OpenAI added more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the past month "just from our API business." "People think of us mostly as ChatGPT, but the API team is doing amazing work!" the OpenAI CEO wrote.

Last October, PayPal an integration with OpenAI so that ChatGPT users could transact within the app. Apparently, PayPal is now ready to take that idea to other retailer chatbots. Of course, now that ChatGPT is making its foray into advertising , other LLMs and chatbots are bound to follow suit, if they haven't already done so. Walmart, for instance, rolled out ads in its generative AI agent Sparky earlier this month.

Even before he'd graduated from the University of Bath in 2024, Arnau Ayerbe landed a highly coveted role as an AI engineer with JP Morgan - yet he felt limited and uninspired. "I realised very quickly that the person to my right and to my left were going to be me in 20 years, and I didn't want to become that," recalls London-based Ayerbe.

One good test on the AI bubble is to recognize that Nvidia has now millions of Nvidia GPUs in every cloud. We're everywhere and if you try to rent an Nvidia GPU these days, it's so incredibly hard. The spot price of rentals is going up. Not just the latest generation, but two-generation-old GPUs,

The company, which is based in San Francisco and has an office in Pune, India, is targeting up to $35 million this year as it builds a royalty-driven on-device AI business. That growth has buoyed the company, which now has post-money valuation of between $270 million and $300 million, up from around $100 million in its 2022 Series B, Kheterpal said.

Salesforce-owned integration platform provider MuleSoft has added a new feature called Agent Scanners to Agent Fabric - a suite of capabilities and tools that the company launched last year to rein in the growing challenge of agent sprawl across enterprises. Agent sprawl, often a result of enterprises and their technology teams adopting multiple agentic products, can lead to the fragmentation of agents, turning their workflows redundant or siloed across teams and platforms.

Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned. The Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist, Maria Ressa, and leading AI and social science researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale are among a global consortium flagging the new disruptive threat posed by hard-to-detect, malicious AI swarms infesting social media and messaging channels.

One year ago this week, Silicon Valley and Wall Street were shocked by the release of China's DeepSeek mobile app, which rivaled US-based large language models like ChatGPT by showing comparable performance on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost while using less-advanced chips. DeepSeek opened a new chapter in the US-China rivalry, with the world recognizing the competitiveness of Chinese AI models, and Beijing pouring more resources into developing its own AI ecosystem.

I'm a little bit surprised they've moved so early into that, I mean, look, ads, there's nothing wrong with ads...they funded much of the consumer internet. And if done well, they can be useful,

South Korea has launched a landmark set of laws to regulate AI before any other country or bloc (the EU's regulations are set to go into effect in stages through next year). Under Korea's AI Basic Act, companies must ensure there is human oversight for "high-impact" AI in fields like nuclear safety, drinking water, transport, healthcare, and financial uses like credit evaluation and loan screening.

How should AI be allowed to act in the world? In ethically ambiguous situations, are there some values that AI agents should prioritize over others? Are these agents conscious -- and if not, could they possibly become conscious in the future? These are just some of the many thorny questions that AI startup Anthropic has set out to address with its new "constitution" for Claude, its flagship AI chatbot.

It feels like a great rotation out of the Magnificent Seven has already kicked off just over a quarter ago. Undoubtedly, the group that's helped lead the S&P 500 to impressive gains in the past several years has shown signs of slowing down. Collectively, the group of seven AI-driven tech leaders has stalled, but underneath the hood, you'll see that not all Mag Seven stocks are built the same.

It transforms Search into an experience that feels uniquely yours by connecting the dots across your Google apps, said Robby Stein, vice president of product for Google search, in a blog post. Google, long dominant in online search, has faced new threats from artificial intelligence startups like OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc., which offer alternative ways to look up information.

Because Grok is connected to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, users can simply ask Grok to edit any image on that platform, and Grok will mostly do it and then distribute that image across the entire platform. Across the last few weeks, X and Elon have claimed over and over that various guardrails have been imposed, but up until now they've been mostly trivial to get around.