Business
How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations
The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.
Business
Business
Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid
A $3 billion bid by OpenAI to acquire Windsurf, maker of the AI-assisted integrated development environment of the same name, collapsed at the 11th hour, setting off a tumultuous few days of corporate maneuvering.
Business
Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry
Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.
Business
Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory: Walmart’s Element platform for industrial-scale AI app development — a progress report
The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.
Business
Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier
Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.
Business
Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang
Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.
Machine Learning Research
Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API
Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.
Machine Learning Research
More Reasoning for Harder Problems: OpenAI debuts o3-pro, an updated reasoning model that applies more tokens at inference
OpenAI launched o3-pro, a more capable version of its most advanced reasoning vision-language model.
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Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights
Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.
Business
AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom
Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.
Business
Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test
An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
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.