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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.
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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.
Business
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.
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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.
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.
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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.