Tech & Society
Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.
Business
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.
Tech & Society
World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance
The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
Business
Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle
Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
Machine Learning Research
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
Machine Learning Research
Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning
xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.
Tech & Society
Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications
Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.
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Reasoning in High Gear: o3-mini, a faster, more affordable reasoning model for coding, math, and science
OpenAI introduced a successor to its o1 models that’s faster, less expensive, and especially strong in coding, math, and science.
Tech & Society
White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership
Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.
Machine Learning Research
Computer Use Gains Momentum: OpenAI’s Operator automates online tasks with a new AI agent
OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.