Business
Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test
An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
Business
Business
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Tech & Society
Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books
A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
Business
Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more
Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.
Business
U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE
The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Tech & Society
Grok’s Fixation on South Africa: xAI blames unnamed, unauthorized employee for chatbot introducing "white genocide" into conversations
An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.
Machine Learning Research
Your Robot Dev Team: OpenAI introduces Codex, a multi-agent cloud-based software engineering tool in ChatGPT
OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.
Business
EU Loosens AI Regulations: European regulators move to relax some AI Act rules on developers’ liability, other provisions
The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.
Business
AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.
Machine Learning Research
Inferring Customer Preferences: LLMs boost shopping recommendations by decoding what users want
Large language models can improve systems that recommend items to purchase by inferring customer preferences.
Business
Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list
AI agents and infrastructure made a strong showing on CB Insights’s latest list of the top 100 AI startups.
Business
U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation
The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.