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Elon Musk proposed his children should inherit control of human-like AI, OpenAI claims

Elon Musk's power fantasies were already extreme a decade ago. According to OpenAI, Musk wanted to amass $80 billion during the company's founding phase to build a self-sufficient city on Mars. He ...
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Cloudflare acquires Human Native to build new payment model for AI training data

Cloudflare is acquiring British startup Human Native to create a new payment system for AI training data. The company runs a marketplace for AI training data and converts multimedia content into ...
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Anthropic's Labs team gets a shake-up as Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins experimental AI unit

Anthropic is growing its Labs team, which builds experimental Claude AI products. Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, formerly Anthropic's Chief Product Officer, is moving to Labs to work with Ben Mann ...
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OpenAI brings back three top researchers from Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines

The US AI industry continues to deliver drama. OpenAI has rehired three former employees from Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines, including co-founder Barret Zoph, who was recently fired as ...
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Deutsche Telekom puts Elevenlabs AI on the phone to handle customer calls

Deutsche Telekom is soon using AI voice agents from Elevenlabs in its customer service. Customers can talk to realistic-sounding AI voices around the clock through the app or by phone. The partnership ...
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Despite OpenAI partnership, Microsoft is one of Anthropic's biggest customers

Microsoft is shaping up to be one of Anthropic's best customers. According to The Information, the software giant is on track to spend nearly $500 million a year on Anthropic's models. Microsoft is ...
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OpenAI will soon test ads in ChatGPT despite CEO Sam Altman once calling the idea dystopian

OpenAI will begin testing advertisements in ChatGPT in the coming weeks in the US, with ads initially appearing only in the free version and the new Go subscription tier. Ads will appear at the end of ...
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China reportedly tightens Nvidia H200 restrictions, limits purchases to special cases

The Chinese government has tightened its stance on Nvidia's H200 chips. According to The Information, officials told some tech companies this week that H200 purchases will only be approved under ...
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Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's hospital push

Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's similar announcement, offering HIPAA-compliant AI tools with access to Medicare databases, ICD-10 coding, and over 35 million PubMed ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google Deepmind updates Veo 3.1 with reference image function for more dynamic videos Google Deepmind has updated Veo 3.1 with new features for generating video from reference ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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The mere existence of Google TPUs reportedly saved OpenAI 30% on Nvidia chips

Google is offering its new TPUv7 chips to outside companies for the first time, entering direct competition with Nvidia. AI startup Anthropic is a major customer and could use up to one million TPUs, ...