Bleepingcomputer also quoted yesterday a report from The Information (paywalled) saying that mockups displaying sponsored information have begun to appear in a sidebar next to the to the main ChatGPT window internally.
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The service will most importantly have access to your medical journals, but also patches into some popular services, like Apple Health, Function, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, Instacart and Peloton.
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Human translators and a French anti-AI collective are up in arms at the change, with romance author Caroline Lee telling 404 Media that they are «cutting back on human creativity and ingenuity in order to save money.»
The French Fluent Planet translation service offers access to translators from «the best universities,» with «decades of experience,» using AI software that can provide «2 to 3 times higher quality translations.»
HarperCollins on their end is trying to calm nerves by saying they are just testing with Fluent Planet, but some translators are not convinced.
Read more: Publisher’s Weekly, 404 Media, and a statement from the translators.
The cash will go to infrastructure buildout — which now includes over 1 million «H100 equivalents» — to facilitate the rollout of future models, and xAI says in their release that Grok 5 is «currently in training.»
They also reveal that Grok has around 600 million monthly active users across x.com and the Grok app.
Grok may be popular, especially on x.com, but it does cut corners to get there, from sex-crazed companions to recently letting users «undress» real women posting selfies to x.com.
This round of funding should value the company somewhere north of $230 billion, writes CNBC
Read more: xAI’s release, writeups on CNBC, Reuters, TechCrunch.
Google already has a «Gemini Robotics» arm, and has been looking for partners, TechCrunch writes — and Boston Dynamics has been looking for an advanced AI model.
The new Atlas humanoid was made its first official debut yesterday at CES, and will be put to work in Hyundai’s U.S. factories by 2028, handling tasks that are either too dangerous or too strenuous for humans.
The trick is to build a proper world model for robots to train on, but Google is pretty advanced in this space.
— We are excited to begin working with the Boston Dynamics team to explore what’s possible with their new Atlas robot as we develop new models, says Carolina Parada, Senior Director of Robotics at Google DeepMind in a release.
Read more: Boston Dynamics’ press release, more on Atlas. Writeups, detail from TechCrunch, Mashable.
5% of all questions globally are about health, one in four questions per week are the same — and that adds up in aggregate to a really big number.
It’s not just normal users curious about care that ask the chatbot, but health care professionals, too. Of these, 46% of nurses, 41% of pharmacy workers, and 48% of physicians say they use ChatGPT once per week or more.
The questions usually roll in outside of normal clinical hours, and happen especially in health care deserts, OpenAI says.
OpenAI has great ambitions for the field, and says in their report that the next boundary to cross is for robotic wet labs and physical AI.
They also tick off a long list of how OpenAI can aid in scientific discovery and drug development.
Read more: OpenAI’s report, writeups on Gizmodo and Axios.
The system actually consists of six chips, including a CPU, a GPU, an NVlink chip, a NIC, and a DPU and an optics chip.
It can train a «mixture of experts» model with 10x less inference token cost, and a 4x reduction in GPUs compared to the Blackwell platform, Nvidia says.
The platform is now rolling out to nearly every cloud provider, including to Nvidia partners Anthropic, OpenAI and Amazon, according to TechCrunch.
Jensen Huang estimates that AI companies will be spending between $3 and $4 trillion on infrastructure over the next five years.
Read more: Nvidia’s press release, Nvidia’s CES keynote. Writeups on The Verge, TechCrunch.
The feature is not new, but the button is. Grok’s «Imagine» has had it since launch in August, and it was popularized with undressing Taylor Swift shortly after.
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They aim for an early 2026 release, in time for the still under wraps hardware device with Jony Ive, said to be voice only and due for launch in «about a year,» reports TechCrunch.
The new audio model supposedly sounds more natural and emotive, can handle interruptions more naturally and speak at the same time as a human, according to OpenAI watcher Tibor Blaho.
OpenAI is said to be planning a whole family of devices, possibly including glasses and smart speakers that are supposed to function more like companions than assistants.
Read more: Original reporting by The Information, writeups on TechCrunch and by Tibor Blaho.
The new currency is untouched, grainy, raw footage, he writes on Threads — because it is harder to fake and offers instant authenticity. But even this is vulnerable to AI.
Becoming more sceptical
— Over time we are going to move from assuming what we see is real by default, to starting with skepticism when we see media, and paying much more attention to who is sharing something and why they might be sharing it, he writes.
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Nvidia currently sits on some 600K high performance H200 chips, recently cleared for China, but Chinese companies have placed orders for a whopping 2 million of them for 2026.
This has led Nvidia to re-approach TSMC for another production run, Reuters reports.
This is notwithstanding regulatory pressure from the Chinese government, who have not said if they will allow the chips in the country.
They are instead considering bundling H200 purchases with domestically produced chips, Reuters says, in order to boost their internal industry.
Read the scoop at Reuters.
2 gigawatts of compute power might seem small when considering OpenAI’s potential 36 GW footprint, but xAI trained the very capable Grok 4 on just a little over one GW’s worth of Nvidia chips.
The plan is to expand Colossus to house at least 1 million GPUs, Reuters reports, and adds that the new data center is close to a natural gas plant that xAI is building in the area.
The name of the building will be MACROHARDRR, according to Elon Musk.
Read more: Bloomberg (paywalled), and Reuters. Musk’s tweet.
The Wall Street Journal cites sources placing the deal at $2 billion.
Their main product is an agent capable of functioning as a digital employee, that can complete tasks in research, coding and data analysis with minimal supervision, Reuters writes.
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They also require that any AI that engages with people should announce at the start that they are talking to an AI, with new warnings every two hours, writes Gizmodo.
Also forbidden are «illegal religious activities,» obscenity, violence or crime, and the list goes on to cover libel and insults, material that damages relationships — or encouraging self harm and suicide.
There aren’t just warnings for using AI chatbots too long, but providers should also assess the user’s emotional state — and take «necessary measures to intervene,» writes Reuters.
Anthropic started the party with Claude, offering Pro and Max users twice the usual limits to close out the year:
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