— The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage, says Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology in a press release.
Continue reading “Micron is pivoting to AI chips, will kill off Crucial consumer brand in 2026”
The idea is that sometimes the user is satisfied with a quick overview as an answer to a query, but sometimes it brings up more questions and requires a little more digging.
Therefore, the AI Overview now sometimes comes with an input field for AI Mode at the bottom of the screen, which will be able to give more comprehensive answers – rather than sending you to a website.
— It’s one seamless experience: a quick snapshot when you need it, and deeper conversation when you want it, says Vice President of Product for Google Search, Robby Stein, on x.com:
Continue reading “Google linking AI Overviews with AI Mode, further worrying web publishers”
This stems from hiring Wilson Sonsini, which assisted Google and LinkedIn in their initial public offerings, and apparently having talks with «big investment banks.» They have also hired Krishna Rao, the former Airbnb executive who played a key role in their IPO in 2020, CNBC says.
The timeline does not seem clear, while the report indicates that it could happen as soon as 2026, it also notes that the talks are in informal and early stages.
Anthropic has 300,000 business and enterprise customers, and is aiming to triple its annual revenue to around $26 billion next year, Reuters writes.
Its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, and would be a test of investors’ appetite for loss-making companies with huge investment bills, FT notes.
Read more: Scoop by The Financial Times, writeups from Reuters and CNBC.
Now CEO Masayoshi Son has revealed that it certainly wasn’t because they were taking profit before any downturn. On the contrary:
— I was crying to sell Nvidia shares, he told the FII Priority Asia forum in Tokyo, and says he «didn’t want to sell a single share,» adding that «I respect Jensen, I respect Nvidia so much,» according to Business Insider.
Continue reading “SoftBank sold $5.83 billion of its Nvidia stock in October: Here’s why”
This has now caused Altman to delay other initiatives, such as ads, to focus on making a better ChatGPT, paywalled The Information writes, citing an internal memo.
They are apparently planning to release a new reasoning model next week that will be «ahead of Gemini 3.» But this needs a little more polishing on the «experience.»
Just last week, a developer revealed ad code in the latest ChatGPT beta — meaning that their work on ads was fairly advanced and almost ready to ship.
This work is now on the back burner, at least until next week, when OpenAI hopes to reclaim their crown.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), and Reuters. Discussion on r/Singularity.
You might remember Runway as the lab behind AIFF — the AI film festival, where part of the prizes was generation tokens in their app.
They are framing their new release as a David v. Goliath moment, where «a team that fits onto two school buses» outperforms trillion dollar companies on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video Leaderboard.
Continue reading “Runway announces Gen-4.5, goes straight to top of video leaderboard”
This is often known as the Dead Internet Theory, or the Great Enshittification, caused by tonnes of low cost, low effort AI-created internet content.
Enter this new plugin, Slop Evader, which can take control of searches on Google, Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange and Pinterest, and set responses to only show content from before November 30, 2022.
Continue reading “Surf like its 2022 with this plugin — with a cutoff on ChatGPT launch”
It was launched «expecting a small research audience,» OpenAI’s Nick Turley says on x.com, but «within hours, the usage was far beyond anything we’d prepared for.»
Launch page is still live
On the preserved introduction page at OpenAI, it says «we are presenting ChatGPT, and look forward to feedback from users to learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of the model.»
Continue reading “Three years since the debut of ChatGPT 3 — the first AI chatbot”
Tibor Blaho discovered the changes in the beta app for Android while doing routine versioning work for his job at AIPRM.com, which integrates tightly with ChatGPT.
He also likes to «share what is coming next with people who care about ChatGPT and Claude news.»
The new code indicates an ads «bazaar,» and a «SearchAd» with a «SearchAdsCarousel.»
Presumably, ads would begin rolling out on the free version of ChatGPT, where it could pay for offering more features. Or there could be affiliate marketing in the shopping links they just announced.
Google is already rolling out ads on their AI products, and Copilot and Perplexity have started using ads on shopping and follow-up-questions, notes Blaho.
Read more: Tibor Blaho’s x.com post, Bleeping Computer, discussion on r/Singularity.
Google has long been signaling their intent to start experimenting with ads in AI outputs, and thinks some relevant ads might be sufficient.
These ads can appear above, beneath and within the results, Google says. And adds:
— For ads to show within the AI Overviews, the ads must additionally be relevant to the content of the AI Overviews.
For Google’s AI Mode, they are still «testing» and have been running with select ads since May, 2025, writes Engadget.
To match you with relevant ads, or even glean some kind of intent from your query, Google uses AI, and then relies on its deep catalog of advertisers to find a match.
Read more: Brodie Clark’s discovery tweet, Search Engine Land, Engadget, Google on ads in AI Overviews.
They go on to say that AI may «provide services and generate ideas, but they remain tools used by the human inventor who conceived the claimed invention.»
Therefore, AI itself can’t be considered an inventor under current U.S. laws, the document says.
In a departure from Biden administration policies, where AI could be considered a co-inventor, the patent office now says «there is no separate or modified standard for AI-assisted inventions.»
That should mean that using AI to concieve of an invention means the user gets the patent, as with any other tool. This has yet to be tested in U.S. courts, Reuters reports.
Read more: The patent notice, writeups by Reuters, Engadget.
— It makes no sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in nearly all future production.
He went on to say that the only place where labeling makes sense is for art exhibits and content licensing marketplaces «where buyers need to understand the rights situation.»
Stores like Steam and Itch.io have been allowing games made with AI since January 2024, Games Industry Biz writes, but they require developers to disclose its use.
They further write that, as of July 2025, about seven percent of games on the Steam store use AI in some way, compared to just one percent in the previous year.
Read more: context at Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer and Games Industry Biz.
Not content with taking over 30% of coding work, this new survey simulates interactions between 151 million workers across the USA and how they are affected by AI.
The survey initially finds that role shifts in tech, computing and information technology amounts to 2.2% of wage expenditures, but when you add in support functions like human resources, logistics, finance and administration the number grows significantly.
The survey is not meant to predict exactly whose jobs will go, but to give a snapshot for policymakers about what AI already can do — today, not tomorrow.
The total number for this 11.7% workforce reduction is a reduced wage bill of $1.2 trillion.
Read more: get the full, detailed story on CNBC. See also: tag/work.
This season is the first where AI use is prevalent, and while it might seem to offer easy guides, real recipe writers are sounding the alarm that AI slop is often just plain wrong — and sometimes also dangerous.
In practice, human expert recipe bloggers have seen their traffic drop from 40 to 80% on their Thanksgiving recipes — at a time when you should probably double check your information, and your common sense.
So, when Google’s AI overview tells you to bake a cake at three to four hours on 160°C, it is probably time to touch grass — or maybe the charcoal that would ensue.
Read more: Original reporting by Bloomberg, summary by Gizmodo.
This lets you create custom characters of friends or yourself and re-use your «Cameo» in different settings.
Not so fast, said the makers of the real «Cameo,» which sells custom-made celebrity videos or greetings. This is their whole business model, and they promptly sued to get their name back.
Now, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee has granted a temporary restraining order on the use of the word by OpenAI — inside the app and elsewhere — until a hearing can be held on whether or not the ban should be made permanent on December 22.