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Sitting beneath a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, more than two dozen of the most powerful figures in the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, together worth many billions of dollars, gathered in the White House on Friday for an audience with President Trump, The New York Times reported. When Mr. Trump entered the ornate State Dining Room after a short wait, the executives
Today, we’re diving into a major policy paper co-authored by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and AI safety expert Dan Hendrycks. They’re pushing back against the idea of a ‘Manhattan Project’ for artificial general intelligence (AGI), warning that an aggressive U.S. race for AI dominance could escalate global tensions—especially with China. Should America rethink its
After kickstarting the market for making calls over the Internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it would be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10 weeks to decide what they want to do with their account,
Today, OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5, its newest AI language model, promising enhanced writing skills, better knowledge, and a more refined, human-like interaction. Despite impressive upgrades, OpenAI admits GPT-4.5 isn't groundbreaking, but it's optimized for more natural conversations, practical problem-solving, and reduced hallucinations. Available first to ChatGPT Pro users, it's soon rolling out broadly, including on Microsoft's Azure platform. -Thinking of buying
OpenAI is launching GPT-4.5 today, its newest and largest AI language model. GPT-4.5 will be available as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users to start. OpenAI is calling the release its “most knowledgable model yet.” but its not a frontier model and might not perform as well as o1 or o3-mini, The Verge reported.
Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa — Alexa Plus — that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly. The Verge reported. Some of the new abilities coming to Alexa Plus include the ability
Activision and the development team behind Call of Duty have confirmed what may have been speculated on for months: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone contain AI-generated content, Windows Central reported. During Black Ops 6’s Season 1, “Merry Mayhem” event, players spotted a loading screen that featured a zombie Santa with six fingers — a hallmark characteristic of