January 24, 2025news On January 31, the EC will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on their plans to counter disinformation ahead of elections in Germany (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) On January 31, the EC will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on their plans to counter disinformation ahead of […]
January 23, 2025news OpenAI says Operator is powered by Computer-Using Agent, or CUA, which combines GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with “reasoning” abilities of more advanced models (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review) The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence. Read More »
January 23, 2025news Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which can take “multi AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant, only on Android for now. Read More »
January 23, 2025news OpenAI fixes issues that caused a major ChatGPT outage and downtime for its API on January 23, after disruptions in December 2024 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. But the company claims that service has been restored. Read More »
January 23, 2025news ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Thursday morning and OpenAI’s API also experienced downtime; OpenAI says both issues are fixed (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. But the company claims that service has been restored. Read More »
January 23, 2025news Q&A with Stanford professor and IP lawyer Mark Lemley on deciding to quit representing Meta in AI copyright case Kadrey v. Meta, Trump, DEI, Elon Musk, and more (Kate Knibbs/Wired) In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of […]
January 23, 2025news France says David Balland, co France says David Balland, co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after […]
January 22, 2025news Filing: OpenAI told an Indian court that it can’t delete old training data from local news agency ANI due to legal obligations in the US (Reuters) Read More »