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
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.
Machine Learning Research
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.
Tech & Society
Texas Moves to Regulate AI: Texas introduces landmark bill to regulate AI development and use
Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.
Hardware
Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots
Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.
Machine Learning Research
DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI’s o1
A new open model rivals OpenAI’s o1, and it’s free to use or modify.
Tech & Society
U.S. Moves to Expand AI Export Restrictions: New U.S. rules limit AI tech access worldwide, reshaping global markets
The United States proposed limits on exports of AI technology that would dramatically expand previous restrictions, creating a new international hierarchy for access to advanced chips and models.