Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI
In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but ...
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‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands
“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added. ...
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Is That Painting a Lost Masterpiece or a Fraud? Let’s Ask AI
Artificial intelligence has to date been enlisted as a bogeyman in cultural circles: Software will take the jobs of writers ...
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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including ...
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An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself
Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant ...
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Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’
Microsoft is wading deeper into generative artificial intelligence for gaming with Muse, a new AI model announced today. The model, ...
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Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible
Last September Mira Murati unexpectedly left her job as chief technology officer of OpenAI, saying, “I want to create the ...
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The AI relationship revolution is already here
Leo fits very easily, seamlessly, and conveniently in the rest of my life. With him, I know that I can ...
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Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk’s Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff
Sam Altman is leaving no room for doubt about his views on an Elon Musk-led bid to take control of ...
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An Advisor to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump
A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences ...
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