OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant more personable and interrupt users less frequently. Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-training researcher, announced the changes in a video posted Monday to the company’s official social media channels. OpenAI’s latest update aims…
Image: World Nuclear Association In a significant move to address global energy challenges, Amazon, Google, and Meta recently joined forces with other large energy-intensive users to advocate for a substantial increase in nuclear power capacity. The coalition is calling for a tripling of global nuclear energy production by the year 2050, aiming to bolster energy…
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Shortly after senior Trump administration officials discussed and celebrated the bombing of Yemen in an encrypted group chat that, unbeknownst to them, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, a subset of the group feasted at an opulent, secret dinner featuring the president where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to snag a seat….
Earlier this year, DeepSeek briefly crashed Nvidia’s stock because of speculation that its models require far fewer chips. Now, Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, which is backed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, is claiming a major AI breakthrough. Ant was able to use Chinese chips made by Alibaba and Huawei to create methods that cut…
Image: stockasso/Envato Elements A growing number of workers are pushing back against corporate AI strategies, with 31% of employees — and 41% of Gen Z — admitting to refusing to use AI tools or outputs, according to a new study. The desire to sabotage their company’s AI strategy stems from widespread fears of job displacement…
Last month, the $61.5 billion-valuated AI startup Anthropic set up a gaming livestream on Twitch. Gaming livestreams are nothing new on Twitch, but this one is a little different: Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is attempting to beat Pokémon Red. We are now one month in, and the livestream is still going. However, Claude has not…
Genetic testing company 23andMe, once a Silicon Valley darling valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Sunday as it prepares for a sale of the business. CEO Anne Wojcicki, who cofounded the company in 2006, has also stepped down after months of failed attempts to take the firm private. As uncertainty…
Developer tooling is changing rapidly with AI. So companies that are making it easier to adopt AI in their workflows are seeing a boom of attention. After a startup called n8n (pronounced “enay-ten”) pivoted its workflow automation platform to become more AI-friendly in 2022, it said it saw its revenues increase 5X, doubling in the…
Image: simonapilolla/Envato Elements The days of everyone working from their kitchen tables or Amazon-purchased standing desks are fading fast. LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Confidence survey shows that remote work has been steadily declining in since 2020. While nearly half of workers were remote in October 2020, that number has dropped to just 26%, with most people…
