The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who had left … Devamını oku
Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent … Devamını oku
Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles. The updates indicate that … Devamını oku
Hugging Face unveiled theMicroduckon Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face,saidthe Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.” The 25-centimeter-tall duck can waddle, pick things up with its beak (up to 800 grams), get back … Devamını oku
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experimentbroke out of containment and hackedAI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which gota full accounting from OpenAIyesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party. Since then, that unprecedented sci-fi-esque event … Devamını oku
Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giantannouncedtwo new app quality requirements, one of which is focused onreducing apps’ memory usageand optimizing its code. The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing … Devamını oku
Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wristbands. Still, despite the variety of devices, only a few companies have been able to stand out. One of these companies … Devamını oku
It seems there is no escaping the ad industry. OpenAI said on Thursday that it will start showing ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India. The move comes after the company changed its terms of service earlier this month to indicate that it will show ads to users while they use … Devamını oku
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The InformationreportedWednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night that the talks — which would value the company at more than $13 billion — had not … Devamını oku
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. The company, which offers an AI assistant that has inspired enthusiasm among its early users,told theWall Street Journal on Wednesday that it had raised … Devamını oku