Now, Reuters is reporting that it’s just around the corner.
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With help from top AI labs, American teachers to get better, free training
The program will begin right away with virtual, online training for all 1.8 million members of the union, and in New York City with a «three-day training session, including six hours of AI-focused material that highlighted practical, hands-on ways to marry the emerging technology with established pedagogy.»
Already used by a fourth of students
According to the latest data, from February 2025, 79% of teens said they had heard about ChatGPT, while 26% admitted to using it in schoolwork — and there are a plethora of other tools available.
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Meta announces completion of «Superintelligence Labs»
This comes hot on the heels of several months or years of what Zuckerberg deemed lackluster performance from the Llama team, before he decided to get some seasoned pros in.
The new team is headed up Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman from Scale AI and Github, respectively.
They will be joined by an 11-man team that will spearhead Metas future AI efforts, that reads like a who’s who of significant AI efforts over the last couple of years from Anthropic, OpenAI and even Google’s DeepMind:
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Apple might be dropping own AI, integrating Anthropic or OpenAI instead
They have instead asked Anthropic and OpenAI to train some of their models on their Private Cloud Compute servers.
The Samsung model
This mirrors Samsung’s approach to integrating Large Language Models in its Galaxy phones, where they have some in-house, lower level AI doing the legwork and passing the rest off to Google’s Gemini, writes Engadget.
According to Bloomberg, Apple has recently focused on Anthropic as the most promising LLM, being more compatible with Apple servers and offering the best experience.
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OpenAI scrambling to «recalibrate comp» as Meta poaches top talent
Sam Altman recently said that Meta was offering as much as $100 million in signing bonuses, but none of his best researchers had fled — at the time.
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OpenAI’s hardware device is a year out, won’t be a wearable
It is clear now that the device won’t be an in-ear device or some kind of glasses.
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OpenAI takes down Ive partnership Io page due to court order
The name of the company purchased by OpenAI for 6.5 billion dollars in late may, has, for all its hype at the time, been taken down by a court order.
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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence, now going for execs
They rebuffed Meta’s buyout offer, CNBC writes, claiming information from anonymous sources close to the transaction.
Now, Meta has turned their eyes to recruiting the co-founder of Safe Superintelligence and the previous AI chief at Apple, Daniel Gross, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, who run an AI venture fund together— which Meta would hold a stake in as part of the deal.
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Friday news roundup – what you might have missed
YouTube’s owner sits on an archive of over 20 billion videos, now being tapped to train its Veo 3 video model. But creators are alarmed about their content appearing in AI-generated outputs, raising red flags over copyright and IP rights. Google says it only uses a small subset of the repository and has «guardrails» in place:
«we’ve invested in robust protections that allow creators to protect their image and likeness in the AI era,» they say to CNBC.
Midjourney’s new Video model is only $10/month
While other video generation tools come with premium price tags, Midjourney’s new model is pitched as the first truly accessible option: «The first video model for everyone.» It animates either uploaded photos or AI-generated art, comes with a prompt field for control, and outputs 5-second clips. Early reactions: it excels at cartoons and stylized animation.
Read more at The Verge, their launch post on X, blog post, and check out the gallery here.
Biology in future OpenAI models getting so good, they pose a «high risk»
OpenAI warns that some successors to its current o3 models will cross thresholds in biological reasoning that trigger a «high risk» classification—raising concerns about misuse in synthesizing harmful materials. «They won’t be able to create bioweapons per se,» said safety lead Johannes Heidecke, «but extra safeguards will be deployed.»
Read more: A report on Axios and the blog post from OpenAI discussing the issue.
Eutelsat is creating a Starlink competitor
Europe is making a bold move to counter SpaceX dominance. Struggling satellite firm Eutelsat has secured $1.55 billion to expand its OneWeb network –€717M of that from the French state, which now holds a ~30% stake. «We must invest now,» Macron’s office said, «or risk dependence on foreign powers.»
Read more: France24 digs deep, Bloomberg is paywalled.
OpenAI announces $200 million DoD deal, launches government group
The first partnership will be a $200 million Pentagon deal to «identify and prototype» AI across a wide range of functions, from healthcare to acquisitions and cyber defense.
National security «and enterprise»
According to CNBC, quoting the The Department of Defense, the awarded contract will deal with «critical national security challenges in both war fighting and enterprise domains.»
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Altman sees mass job loss — and plans to counter with more AI
Whole categories of jobs will be wiped out, he writes — but then says AI will bring us so many benefits and new policy options we won’t care much:
— There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before, he writes.
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OpenAI’s open weights model now coming «later this summer»
The timeline for the release was originally slated for early summer, writes TechCrunch.
Announced to compete with Llama, DeepSeek
An open weights model basically means you can run the AI on your computer, tinker with it, and modify the «weights,» whitch means the leveling, the priorities and instructions of the model itself.
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OpenAI launches o3-pro, drops o3 API prices by 80%
According to OpenAI’s release notes, it scores about 10% better than o3 in select benchmarks.
It is available for Pro and Team users, replacing the o1-pro model. It should be available to Enterprise and Edu users next week.
o3-pro also has access to tools, and can therefore search the web, analyze files, take visual inputs and use Python, OpenAI says.
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ChatGPT had «partial outage» lasting seven hours
The outage was affecting everything from the web service, to iOS/Android/Windows and macOS apps, across GPTs, Deep Research, Operator, Codex, Sora and Image Generation.
Intensifying errors
Downdetector collected reports on the outage since 0900 CET/0300 EST, and it seemed to peak in the early hours today.
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OpenAI hits $10 billion in yearly revenue — well ahead of schedule
According to TechCrunch, the revenue streams from consumer products, 500 million active weekly ChatGPT users, API sales, and 3 million paying business customers.
AI industry is booming
This caps six months of remarkable growth for the AI business. Recently, Anthropic reported record revenue growth, having reached $3 billion in revenue so far this year.
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