The AI desk
Research, products, policy and the companies behind them — our own reporting alongside an editor-curated group of AI publications, each named on the story.
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop…
AI NewsChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks…
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AI NewsYour AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side, you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important…
AI NewsWhen Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.
AI NewsThe Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?
AI NewsJudge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
AI NewsInstagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark…
AI NewsGoogle will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini…
AI NewsTim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
AI NewsUS groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
AI NewsJoi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”
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