Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion,…

OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC…

DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that…

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI…

Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals

Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered…

ChatGPT’s newest feature lets users assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’

Update: OpenAI officially announced this feature one week after some users reported the arrival, and then…

In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have used YouTube and its battle to take down pirated…

Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best

Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI…

AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI

François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier…

More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults

Younger Gen Zers are embracing OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey…

Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of one-stop shop, Google says it’s…

OpenAI tests phone number-only ChatGPT signups

OpenAI has begun testing a feature that lets new ChatGPT users sign up with only a…

Google raises the price of Workspace plans, includes its AI features for free

Google announced on Wednesday that all AI features in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet are now…

Microsoft’s newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-go

Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several, but not all,…

Hinge’s new AI feature determines if your prompt response is too basic 

Hinge today launched a new AI-powered feature called “Prompt Feedback,” which aims to improve your dating…

Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November…

UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in…

Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky,…

Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement

Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, has settled a lawsuit against Korean AI startup FriendliAI, which…

ChatGPT’s newest feature lets user assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’

OpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT, the company’s…

Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’

As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is further streamlining the…

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg…