… That compute partnership may be reason enough for Anthropic to continue offering its AI models in Cursor. OpenAI may find that it has different reasons to continue working with Cursor. …
… Sutskever said OpenAI needed “a lot of dollars” to build a computer as big as the human brain, and while seeking donations had some “reasonable success,” becoming a for-profit was the consensus way forward. “I would describe it as the difference between an ant and a cat,” Sutskever said in response… …
… So what exactly do Stanford students learn about in AI Coachella? The class is largely about frontier AI systems, which many undergraduate computer science courses only touch on. Midha spent the first lecture of the year discussing the computing infrastructure that supports AI models. …
… Some AI executives argue that subscription plans don’t make sense in the era of AI agents like Claude Code and Codex, which can use significantly more computational power than traditional chatbots. “It’s possible that, in the current era, having an unlimited AI plan is like having an unlimited elec… …
… Their accounts paint a picture of OpenAI in a position it has rarely ever been in: racing to catch up. "It can actually act in the computer world on your behalf," Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and cofounder, said at the time. …
The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for you, is expanding beyond the desktop app. …
… She has also been an outspoken critic of major AI companies that, she says, are deliberately withholding energy and sustainability information from the public. Now, she’s starting Sustainable AI Group, a new venture with former Salesforce sustainability chief Boris Gamazaychikov. …
… The company sees accumulating power—whether in the form of capital, compute, research talent, or political influence—not as an end in itself, but as the price of fulfilling its mission: “to ensure the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI.” Helen Toner, executive director of G… …
… And then whether they choose to or not is up to them." I left the conversation very inspired, and I was like, "I just frankly don't have a use case." And I hadn't identified an area where I was like, "AI agents would be very, very beneficial." But I was like, "I want to just try it and learn." And … …
… Meta approved and ran more than 50 paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery or sexually suggestive images of minors across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads, with some reaching thousands of people. …