John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
…On Alphabet’s February earnings call, executives largely ignored a question about the company’s AI partnerships, including with Apple, though Pichai said he was looking forward to Google powering “the next…
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Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
…Both OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan to go public this year. “Their story is built on fear, restriction, and the idea that a small group of elites should control AI,” Dresser…
Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise
…Apple’s partnership with Google may raise concerns about how it maintains user privacy, but it may also be precisely how it’s able to offer functional AI without giving up that…
Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead
OpenAI and Microsoft’s partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been…
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…RELATED / Gemini will use Volvo’s external cameras to interpret parking signs If you get a parking ticket, you can just blame AI. Andrew J. Hawkins 48 minutes ago Volvo teases a…
The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled
…cofounder and interpretability team lead Christopher Olah, representing a partnership between the Catholic Church and one of the biggest players in AI. The letter elicited a wide range of reactions from in…
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models
…Most AI firms’ video models are still only capable of churning out short bursts of visually inconsistent footage. And some of Hollywood’s biggest AI partnerships have suddenly evaporated in ways that…
America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
…its partnerships with NCMEC and StopNCII.org; the company currently offers a form and in-app tools for reporting. Even X, which has a highly checkered history with sexualized AI imagery…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
…the biggest players in AI, and it’s finally acting like it. For years, Microsoft’s AI business leaned hard on its early and exclusive partnership with OpenAI. But the…
In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
…Rajan has faced heavy criticism after eliminating creative programs and pushing AI adoption at the university through corporate partnerships with tech companies. The student anger is coming to a head at…