Over 30 individuals, including Nobel laureates and former OpenAI employees, urge authorities to block OpenAI's proposed for-profit restructuring, arguing it violates the company's original charitable mission, while OpenAI maintains it can still benefit humanity in this new model.
Imogen Heap pioneers new AI music tools on her platform Jen, enabling artists to generate novel songs by combining text prompts with her original 'stylefilters,' aiming to empower creators in the rapidly evolving generative audio landscape.
AI video avatars revolutionize content creation, enabling lifelike, multilingual videos without cameras, mirroring voice, expressions, and gestures through customizable or stock AI-generated avatars.
Kenya's teacher shortage has prompted some educators to turn to AI assistants like ChatGPT to manage workloads, but limited internet connectivity and concerns over standardization and trust in the technology pose challenges to widespread adoption, sparking debate over investing in AI tools versus hiring more teachers.
OpenAI plans to unveil an unrestricted, best-in-class AI reasoning model for consumer use in early summer, designed to run on high-end hardware and potentially enable developers to customize its reasoning capabilities under a highly permissive license.
Tempus AI unveils groundbreaking $200M deals with AstraZeneca and Pathos AI to build the largest AI model in oncology, harnessing multimodal data to drive biological insights, drug target discovery, and therapeutic development for cancer patients.
OpenAI's pivot to pursue profits, abandoning its nonprofit status and mission, has sparked legal battles and backlash from critics who argue the move undermines the company's original goal of ensuring advanced AI benefits humanity as a whole.
Generative AI transforms education with Andrew Ng's AI-assisted data analyst program, raises voice deception concerns due to human inability to detect AI voices, and fuels the quest for AGI as Google DeepMind's efforts were highlighted on 60 Minutes.
Global venture funding skyrockets to a staggering $113 billion in Q1 2025, fueled by OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion raise and Google's planned $32 billion Wiz acquisition, signaling a resurgence in startup exits.
Financial giants are aggressively investing in generative AI, with firms like Moody's developing AI agents for specialized tasks, fueling a surge in spending projected to reach $126.4 billion by 2028 as the industry taps into AI's 'co-working' capabilities.