Who trusts Sam Altman?
"I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person," Altman testified in federal court.
Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.
Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
For founders and investors, Anthropic's new offering signals that the AI platform wars are expanding downmarket and that the next major battleground for user acquisition isn't the Fortune 500; it's the 36 million small businesses that make up the backbone of the U.S. economy.
Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+
Alexa for Shopping offers a voice- and touch-enabled shopping experience across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show smart displays. Alexa for Shopping provides more personalized recommendations and automates the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers.
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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.
Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data
For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp.
Physical AI Conference Comes to San Jose as Robotics & Autonomous AI Go Mainstream
The Physical AI Conference shaping the future of robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment lands in Silicon Valley this May, bringing together the engineers, builders and AI pioneers turning intelligence into physical action. Physical AI Expo North America will take place on May 18–
Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves
Adaption's new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.
The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup called Varda Space Industries is betting that the future of pharmaceuticals lies in orbit. The company
A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial
Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments in space, says it has signed up the pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics in what may be remembered as a notable step toward in-orbit manufacturing. The idea of building things in outer space for use
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration
Thinking Machines Lab has introduced a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 12B active parameters, built around a multi-stream, time-aligned micro-turn architecture that processes 200ms chunks of audio, video, and text simultaneously — eliminating
Google DeepMind Introduces an AI-Enabled Mouse Pointer Powered by Gemini That Captures Visual and Semantic Context Around the Cursor
Google DeepMind researchers have outlined four interaction principles and released experimental demos of an AI-enabled mouse pointer powered by Gemini — one that captures the visual and semantic context around the cursor so users can point, speak in natural shorthand, and get things done without swi
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
Build a Hybrid-Memory Autonomous Agent with Modular Architecture and Tool Dispatch Using OpenAI
In this tutorial, we begin by exploring the architecture behind a hybrid-memory autonomous agent. This system combines semantic vector search, keyword-based retrieval, and a modular tool-dispatching loop to create an agent capable of reasoning, remembering, and acting autonomously. We walk through e
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Meet AntAngelMed: A 103B-Parameter Open-Source Medical Language Model Built on a 1/32 Activation-Ratio MoE Architecture
MedAIBase has released AntAngelMed, a 103B-parameter open-source medical language model that uses a 1/32 activation-ratio Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to activate only 6.1B parameters at inference time, matching the performance of roughly 40B dense models while exceeding 200 tokens per seco
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who had control usually d
Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records," the company's support page reads.
Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.