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Reed Albergotti

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AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta

Tulloch has been delaying his departure until the company successfully launched its new family of open source AI models and AI assistant, Muse.
Dado Ruvic/Reuters

Meta launches Muse AI assistant

Think of it like a computer sitting on Meta’s servers that connects to and can control your email, your calendar, or your health information when you give it commands.
A promotional image for Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse.
Courtesy of Meta

Trailer for Altman biopic misses the real drama

Turning a great startup drama into a Bond film (but without James Bond) is inherently less interesting than reality.
A screenshot from the trailer for Artificial.
@IGN/YouTube

US needs nimble approach to technological governance

The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too expensive.
California’s state Capitol.
“California State Capitol” by Steven Pavlov via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Astra kicks off AI monitoring debate

Astra appears to do less of its thinking out loud, giving researchers little insight into whether it might be hiding something or planning something it shouldn’t.
A graphic promoting OpenAI’s Astra model.
Courtesy of OpenAI

Breaking up Google could have handed more power to other monopolies

The antitrust balloon-squeezing phenomenon is well documented.
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack reveals questions about AI predictability

Ancient civilizations are most known for one thing: conquering. And that’s the worry. If OpenAI’s agents are Romans, humanity represents the barbarians.

John Ternus confronts Apple’s AI era

The field is wide open for a device that can be for the AI era what the iPhone was for the mobile era. But the tech giant faces fierce competition.

Humans can’t fight AI with AI

The idea that AI can counter rogue AI just got a real-world test, and came up short.

AI writing has already begun to appear on the opinion pages

About 10 — of 310 — contributions to The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times over the past month appear to have been written by AI models.

OpenAI says its AI chip rivals Nvidia in inference

OpenAI built the chips in record time by using its own AI models to speed up the design and verification phase of development.

AI agents may raise conflict-of-interest risks, study finds

A new Stanford research paper finds that it’s becoming less clear whether recommendations by AI chatbots are driven by advertising dollars or genuine information.

‘This is crazy. This is insane’: Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI and jobs

The Microsoft founder says human-only jobs and token taxes will be required at “a unique moment in evolutionary history.”

Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for $8 billion

With a deal, OpenRouter’s business could be destined for commoditization, and that’s actually kind of the point.

OpenAI needs to hit pause

One way to look at the AI giant slowing down its frontier model work because of safety concerns is that models are getting scarily powerful.

Google doesn’t need the LLM crown

Whoever stands atop the AI race podium isn’t the main point anymore.

Demis Hassabis was shifting away from DeepMind CEO duties for a year

The CEO of Google’s AI unit was increasingly unsatisfied with the role of tech executive, preferring a more scientific position, said two people familiar with his thinking.

The White House maintains a little obscurity for AI security

The takeaway shouldn’t be fear that the US government is hiding the ball. It’s that there isn’t a ball to hide yet.
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