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The sleepy Friday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be not so sleepy after all. President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon asking to delay the effective date of a law banning TikTok. The law will ban TikTok on Jan. 19—one day before Trump takes office—unless it can find a buyer that satisfies U.S. national security concerns about the app.Trump’s brief wasn’t your usual dry legal filing, even though it did more formally articulate the concerns about a T
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Amazon's Kindle is already a very convenient e-reader, but these unique tablet accessories will make it an even better tool for catching up on reading. Read more ›
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Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago.Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The company has recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge... Read more ›
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Christmas Eve is usually the last day of a frantic holiday sprint for staff at e-commerce and logistics companies, after which they can expect to kick back and enjoy a comparatively calm couple of months. Not this year. Virtually any business that moves its products across borders has to be on guard as world leaders jockey to position themselves ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration and a likely escalation in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s next-generation reasoning model—called o3 for a funny reason—seriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors like Anthropic and Google by a lot. It also reached human levels of performance on ARC-AGI, a benchmark meant to test how AI models handle tasks that humans excel at such... Read more ›
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Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!Whether AGI has or hasn’t been “achieved” by AI developers has been a hotly debated topic due to its fuzzy and subjective definition. OpenAI has publicly described AGI as automated systems that outperform people at “most economically valuable work,” but nobody can agree on what that means.Now we have clarity, thanks to this story Amir and I published this morning.... Read more ›
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To train artificial intelligence–powered robots to pick a book off a shelf a decade ago, researchers had to direct the robots to perform the task roughly 500 times before the robots learned to imitate the motion, recalls Brad Porter, founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, which is developing robots to work in hospitals and warehouses. These days the robots can successfully grab a book after only 20 trials—which is “much... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s efforts to license news publishers’ content for training its large language models are beginning to pay business dividends. Publishers are increasingly opting to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools for their operations rather than Google’s, publishing executives say. OpenAI has signed more than a dozen content licensing agreements with news and magazine publishers in the past year. Under those deals, publishers get credits to use its technology, said people from... Read more ›
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Nvidia, a chip giant, says it can develop a cloud services and software business to rival Amazon Web Services. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence developer, has been developing server chips and a browser to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Google, respectively. And Elon Musk hired a data center team to build one of the biggest supercomputing server clusters for developing conversational AI. It seems like every major competitor in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation. His biggest hurdle is Microsoft, which has outsize influence on the process after having committed more than $13 billion to OpenAI. The companies have been negotiating potential changes in OpenAI’s structure since around October. Those talks have focused on four areas: Microsoft’s equity stake in the for-profit entity; whether... Read more ›
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Like most big tech companies with artificial intelligence ambitions, Apple has little choice but to use chips from Nvidia, whose graphics processing units are practically a de facto standard in the development and running of AI software. But Apple is working on ways to spend less on Nvidia chips without undermining its success in AI. Instead of buying boatloads of Nvidia chips as its tech peers do, the iPhone maker... Read more ›
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Dealmakers, it’s been a history-making year. OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, the largest venture capital fundraise in history—only to have Databricks beat that record with its $10 billion haul in December. Then there were the acqui-hires, topped by Google paying $2.7 billion for the talent and technology behind Character AI.But the year wasn’t just up and to the right. Several well-known startups shut down, including fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy... Read more ›
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