January 24, 2025news The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on January 31 about their plans to counter disinformation ahead of elections in Germany (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on January 31 about their plans to counter disinformation […]
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 […]
