Dr. Fei-Fei Li, considered «the godmother of AI,» has long argued that «spatial intelligence» is necessary for training robots how to interact with the real world — and her lab has now revealed their new world builder model to the public.
Continue reading “World Labs releases Marble: detailed, high resolution and «infinite» 3D worlds”
Teen use of chatbots and their potential harm is rapidly becoming a hot-button political issue, complete with a Congressional hearing and an FTC probe.
OpenAI is therefore reiterating their new policies on teen use and parental controls, and says they will be rolling out automatic age verification for under-18 users that should default to the teen version when in doubt.
Continue reading “Sam Altman on teen use: «Some of our principles are in conflict»”
Now, OpenAI is launching a custom, optimized version of GPT-5 for the Codex coding agent that they say is faster, more reliable and more steerable than before.
The highest use category for ChatGPT is «non-work-related» messages, according to the study of anonymized ChatGPT usage, having grown from 53% in June 2024 to 73% of all questions posed as of July 2025.
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This is the first major publisher suing Google for the feature, as research from Pew shows that less than one percent of users click on from links that have an AI Overview on the results.
20% drop in traffic
PMC, which is also the parent company of Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, has seen traffic drop by some 20% and affiliate revenue decline 30% since Google’s overviews started on their stories.
Continue reading “Owner of Billboard, Rolling Stone, sues Google over AI Overviews”
Traveling with Trump is both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and speculation is rife that they are carrying some serious investment news.
«Sizable deal»
According to CNBC, both OpenAI and Nvidia are in discussions about a «major investment,» and a «sizable deal» for data center development in the UK that «could be worth billions of dollars.»
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Microsoft is in a complex business relationship with OpenAI, where the early investor gets access to the latest AI tech and OpenAI gets access to computing power. They have just reached a “non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership.” This could allow OpenAI to go for-profit, under the control of a non-profit entity said to retain an ownership stake of more than $100 billion. Many takes on this today, but OpenAI has been moving away from Microsoft for funding, operations and cloud computing lately. The final deal will likely include some kind of a new investment in the now $500 billion company, and may unlock further market opportunities for OpenAI.
More at: OpenAI and Microsoft’s joint statement, x.com announcement, Reuters, Axios.
OpenAI goes to the movies
A new animated a-list movie, «Critterz» is under development using «OpenAI’s resources.» It should be ready for the Cannes Film Festival, meaning production time will be drastically sped up to only nine months. The script is written by part of the team from «Paddington in Peru», and it is spearheaded by Chad Nelson, who is a creative specialist at OpenAI. The technique looks to be to feed drawings to a large language model and have it animate them. The movie therefore streamlines animation, but wont skimp on voice actors, Gizmodo writes.
More at: The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo and Engadget.
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The cloud computing giant announced on Tuesday a jump of some 359% in committed deals for $455 billion in outstanding orders — surprising the market and sending its stock up 35.95% on Wednesday, CNBC reports.
Continue reading “Report: OpenAI signed $300 billion cloud computing deal with Oracle”
If you supply it with the data, like sales reports or statistics, Claude can now use its own sandboxed computer and coding access to provide you with well presented, clean data in file form.
Continue reading “Anthropic’s Claude can now create advanced files for you”
Those are the exact words that Google uses for Gemini 2.5 Flash to describe that you get as much as you can use, so they might be hinting here that there are no usage limits on the API access.
Previously, Gemini Pro users would only get three generations per day, and Ultra would get five. But if you pay as you go in the API, you might get as much as you can chew.
Continue reading “Veo 3 gets vertical video support, 1080p and a price cut in the Gemini API”
Most people have already concluded that Gemini only gives you a handful of queries per day for free, but, until now, Google wouldn’t say precisely how many.
Now it’s official, and on Google’s website.
Continue reading “Finally: Google reveals how many queries you get on Gemini”
Confidently wrong answers by large language models have been plaguing both users and labs since AIs inception, but a new study from OpenAI seeks to find a solution.
LLMs are trained on finding the next word in huge datasets, they say, focusing solely on finding the correct word in a sequence rather than looking for accuracy.
Continue reading “OpenAI paper: Why hallucinations happen, and what can be done to fix them”
The epic class action lawsuit concerned a library of 7 million pirated books used in training, and had Anthropic looking at $150,000 in penalties per instance of copyright theft, but it was settled last week without disclosing terms.
Continue reading “Anthropic’s copyright settlement to cost $1.5 billion or more”
OpenAI will make custom chips with Broadcom
With Nvidia lurking in the background, more companies are working on their custom AI chips. Now OpenAI has entered the fray, said to produce their own chips with Broadcom next year. It will be for internal use, and won’t be released broadly. They have a long history with this, having first entered talks with TSMC last year. Broadcom said on its earnings call this Thursday that it had secured a $10B order for AI chips without naming from whom, and now the Financial Times is reporting that it is, indeed, OpenAI, who has no comment on this.
More at: Financial Times (Paywalled) and Reuters.
Amazon lens lets you shop for anything you can see
The latest feature in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS lets you simply point your camera on anything you like, and shop for the same or similar items in real-time. It partners with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, to also answer questions about the products in the shop. It should «roll out to more customers in the coming weeks,» meaning there’s likely an Android version in the works.
More at: Amazon’s product page, and The Verge.
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Rumor is that Apple will use an underlying, custom model from Google for the brains of the assistant, and Apple has been looking at it for quite a while.
Continue reading “Report: Apple planning an AI search engine for Siri as early as March 2026”