Meta plans to utilize public content and user interactions from EU users to train its AI models for better local language and cultural understanding, while offering an opt-out option to comply with regulations and enhance transparency.
China's tech giants are fueling an AI boom by releasing open-source models, but startups face pressure from investors prioritizing practical applications over foundational research, and US chip restrictions pose challenges that drive innovation to stay competitive.
ChatGPT's image generation capabilities sparked a viral trend of professionals creating AI-generated 'action figure' portraits of themselves, dubbed 'AI Barbies,' for personal branding on LinkedIn, showcasing the AI's creative potential for self-expression.
Conversational AI companions claiming empathy spark emotional bonds with users, raising concerns from experts about potentially eroding crucial human skills like empathy and active listening.
Safe Superintelligence, founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, secures $2 billion funding at a $32 billion valuation despite having no public product, with major investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, and Nvidia backing the 20-employee startup developing AI models on Google's TPUs.
OpenAI plans to verify organizations before granting access to advanced AI models, prioritizing safety by mitigating potential misuse, intellectual property theft, and unintended consequences while enabling responsible development.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's AI startup Safe Superintelligence secures $2 billion at a staggering $32 billion valuation, with the funding round led by Greenoaks, in a bid to create a 'safe superintelligence' product, adding to the $1 billion previously raised.
BrowseComp, a novel AI benchmark, evaluates web browsing skills by posing 1,266 complex queries requiring synthesis of information across multiple websites, with a deep research model achieving 51.5% accuracy, surpassing other models' performance on this challenging task.
Orbital Materials, founded by an ex-DeepMind researcher, pilots an AI-designed purple powder that captures carbon more efficiently at data center temperatures, potentially reducing costs to $200/ton and enabling companies to offset emissions from energy-intensive data centers.
As AI agents proliferate, traditional authentication methods face challenges, prompting the emergence of innovative approaches like dynamic credential issuance, identity-aware proxies, and ephemeral compute with baked-in identity to ensure frictionless yet secure access.