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2026

January

Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism (TechCrunch)
OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT (Reuters)
OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch (The Information)
YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses (The Verge)
An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them (NYTimes)
Anthropic Uncovers AI Personality Crisis as Models Secretly Switch Identities (eWeek)
OpenAI brings advertising to ChatGPT in push for new revenue (FT)
OpenAI’s Revenue Soars Past $20 Billion After 233% Jump—But Explosive Growth Comes With Massive Compute Costs And A $17 Billion Burn Rate (Benzinga)
Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away (WSJ)
Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation (The Information)
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI (Wired)
Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million (The Information)
McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul (FT)
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices (Bloomberg)
Google Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp (MacRumors)
Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code (TechCrunch)
Apple picks Google’s Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year (CNBC)
Anthropic expands into healthcare a week after OpenAI launched a similar product (Business Insider)
Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI (Sherwood News)
AI’s Memorization Crisis (The Atlantic)
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature (The Verge)
Musk’s xAI Burns Almost $8 Billion, Reveals Optimus Plan (Bloomberg)
DeepSeek To Release Next Flagship AI Model With Strong Coding Ability (The Information)
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X (Wired)
Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion (NYTimes)
Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026 (The Verge)
Exclusive: Samsung to double AI mobile devices to 800 million units this year (Reuters)

2025

December

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate (Spyglass)
Musk’s xAI Buys Building to Expand ‘Colossus’ Data Center (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History (WSJ)
AI Trade’s Next Leg Is All About Tech’s ‘Pick-and-Shovel’ Stocks (Bloomberg)
Meta to Buy Manus, an AI Startup With Chinese Roots (Bloomberg)
AI start-ups amass record $150bn funding cushion as bubble fears mount (WSJ)
Microsoft’s Nadella overhauls leadership as he plots AI strategy beyond OpenAI (FT)
OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape (The Information)
Pentagon Adds Grok-Derived Products to Something Called the ‘AI Arsenal’ (Gizmodo)
AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record (FT)
ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is (The Verge)
Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI (SiliconANGLE)
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI (FT)
Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’ (WSJ)
YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions (Deadline)
OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion (The Information)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT Images just got a major upgrade — and it could change how we all create (TechRadar)
OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips (The Information)
Google wants its AI assistant CC to replace your morning scroll (The Verge)
AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide (CNBC)
CoreWeave’s Staggering Fall From Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears (WSJ)
AI has the entertainment industry torn between keeping up and keeping talent happy. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Investors seek protection from risk of AI debt bust (FT)
Kindle’s New AI Feature Can Answer Questions About Your Books (Whether Authors Want It or Not) (PCMag)
AI image generators are getting better by getting worse (The Verge)
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’ (Wired)
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle (The Verge)
Why AGI Will Not Happen
Disney Inks Blockbuster OpenAI Deal to Bring More Than 200 Characters to Sora Video Platform, Will Invest $1 Billion in AI Company (Variety)
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Suite of Characters for Sora in Landmark Deal (The Wrap)
Oracle Can’t Escape OpenAI’s Shadow (WSJ)
Spotify tests more personalized, AI-powered ‘Prompted Playlists’ (TechCrunch)
MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away. (The Verge)
DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model (The Information)
Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google (WSJ)
From Llamas to Avocados: Meta’s shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion (CNBC)
Meta acquires AI-wearables startup Limitless (Reuters)
An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter (OpenRouter)
Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure (The Decoder)
Meta’s Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts (Bloomberg)
Anthropic CEO Says Some Tech Firms Too Risky With AI Spending (Bloomberg)
Harvey, a Maker of A.I. Legal Software, Raises New Funds (NYTimes)
Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own (Wired)
AWS puts Kiro and other AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development (SiliconANGLE)
Microsoft Lowers AI Software Growth Targets as Customers Resist Newer Products (The Information)
OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort (The Information)
Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Retiring After Siri Delays (MacRumors)
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI (Stratechery)
Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark (CNBC)

November

Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees (CNBC)
Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model (Ars Technica)
ChatGPT’s new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me? (ZDNet)
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (NYTimes)
Altman Memo Forecasts ‘Rough Vibes’ Due to Resurgent Google (The Information)
Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off (The Verge)
Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel (The Verge)
Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing (9to5Google)
Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet (The Verge)
AI Music Platform Suno Valued at $2.45 Billion (WSJ)
Grok 4.1 has arrived — and it’s bringing the fight to ChatGPT with these new features (Tom’s Guide)
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has ‘elements of irrationality’ (BBC)
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive (NYTimes)
Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects (The Register)
At a major AI conference, one startup got voted most likely to flop (Business Insider)
ChatGPT launches pilot group chats across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan (TechCrunch)
OpenAI, Apple Lose Bid to Toss Musk xAI Suit Over Competition (Bloomberg)
AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation (CNBC)
Sundar Pichai Is Google’s AI ‘Wartime CEO’ After All (Bloomberg)
OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is ‘warmer’ and has more ‘personality’ options (The Verge)
The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion (WSJ)
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product (TechCrunch)
Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable (Reuters)
50,000 AI tracks flood Deezer daily – as study shows 97% of listeners can’t tell the difference between human-made vs. fully AI-generated music (MusicBusinessWorldwide)
The AI Bubble Is Ignoring Michael Burry’s Fears (Bloomberg)
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up (FT)
SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8bn as it prepares for AI investments (FT)
Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI (WSJ)
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions (NYTimes)
Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up (CNBC)
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (MIT Technology Review)
Apple Nears $1 Billion-a Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri (Bloomberg)
Microsoft Lays Out Ambitious AI Vision, Free From OpenAI (WSJ)
Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts (Wired)
The Foursquare founder’s new app is an AI-powered ‘DJ’ for neighborhood updates (Engadget)
Amazon Sues to Stop Perplexity From Using AI Tool to Buy Stuff (Bloomberg)
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics (Windows On Theory)
Coca-Cola Injects ‘Holidays Are Coming’ Ads With an Upgraded Dose of AI (WSJ)
The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work (The Atlantic)
Alphabet, Amazon Stakes in Anthropic Boost Profit by Billions (Bloomberg)
For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword (NYTimes)

October

Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter (The Register)
Sora now lets you pay extra to make more AI videos (The Verge)
Nvidia to Invest Up to $1 Billion in AI Startup Poolside (Bloomberg)
Nvidia Is Accelerating Its Investing Spree in AI Startups (Bloomberg)
Big Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree (FT)
OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora (The Verge)
AI Coding Leader Cursor Says New Agent Fields Tougher Tasks (Bloomberg)
AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers (Wired)
AI start-up Character.ai bans teens from talking to chatbots (FT)
Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite (WSJ)
OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft (The Verge)
Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work (The Verge)
OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (WSJ)
OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here (The Verge)
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (Simon Willison)
Why OpenAI Needs Its Own ChatGPT-Enabled Browser, Atlas (Forbes)
Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Looks to Replace the Drudgery of Junior Bankers’ Workload (Bloomberg)
OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. (TechCrunch)
Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work (The Verge)
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (Simon Willison)
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404media)
Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort to Leave for Meta (Bloomberg)
Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model (TechCrunch)
‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy (FT)
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults (The Verge)
OpenAI makes five-year business plan to meet $1tn spending pledges (FT)
Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta (WSJ)
NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats (9to5Google)
OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals (Matt Levine)
OpenAI’s Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days (CNBC)
OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding (The Information)
Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’ (Wired)
It’s trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic (The Register)
Reflection AI, an A.I. Model Start-Up, Raises $2 Billion (NYTimes)
Samsung AI researcher’s new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems (VentureBeat)
Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal (WSJ)
OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals (Bloomberg)
Nvidia’s Huang says he’s surprised AMD offered OpenAI 10% of company in ‘clever’ deal (CNBC)
OpenAI announces Apps SDK allowing ChatGPT to launch and run third party apps like Zillow, Canva, Spotify (VentureBeat)
OpenAI’s Windows Play (Stratechery)
MrBeast says AI could threaten creators’ livelihoods, calling it ‘scary times’ for the industry (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI (WSJ)
OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device (FT)
A new a16z report looks at which AI companies startups are actually paying for (TechCrunch)
AI is not killing jobs, US study finds (FT)
OpenAI’s invite-only video generation app Sora tops Apple’s App Store (CNBC)
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus (404Media)
Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product (Wired)
OpenAI’s Sora app lets friends swap AI video cameos (Axios)
OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real (The Verge)

September

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, its best AI model for coding (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos (Wired)
DeepSeek Debuts ‘Sparse Attention’ Method in Next-Gen AI Model (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect (Wired)
OpenAI really, really wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse (The Verge)
AI isn’t replacing radiologists
Musk’s xAI accuses rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets (Reuters)
Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps (The Verge)
Nvidia’s $100bn bet on ‘gigantic AI factories’ to power ChatGPT (FT)
Alibaba Shares Soar After Hiking AI Budget Past $50 Billion (Bloomberg)
VCs to AI Startups: Please Take Our Money (Bloomberg)
Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash (The Verge)
Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal (CNBC)
AI Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity (Harvard Business Review)
New AI model predicts susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases (FT)
YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts (TechCrunch)
YouTube announces new generative AI tools for Shorts creators (TechCrunch)
OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5 (TechCrunch)
Google Gemini is the top free iPhone app (9to5Google)
Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT (Washington Post)
Anthropic Finds Businesses Are Mainly Using AI to Automate Work (Bloomberg)
OpenAI announces new mentorship program for budding tech founders (CNBC)
AI Will Not Make You Rich (Colossus)
OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership (Axios)
OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization (NYTimes)
OpenAI & Microsoft Agree to Agree, Tentatively (Spyglass)
Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption (Reuters)
Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs? (FT)
Online travel platforms prepare for rise of artificial intelligence ‘agents’ (FT)
Microsoft’s first preview of Visual Studio 2026: Deeper AI and a design refresh (The Register)
AI’s $344 Billion ‘Language Model’ Bet Looks Fragile (Bloomberg)
How Oracle’s Larry Ellison rode the AI ‘tsunami’ (FT)
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan (The Hollywood Reporter)
OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring (WSJ)
OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film (WSJ)
Mistral Set for $14 Billion Valuation With New Funding Round (Bloomberg)
ElevenLabs to Let Staff Sell Shares at $6.6 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History (404Media)
OpenAI Plans Jobs Platform, Certification Program for AI Roles (Bloomberg)
Apple Plans AI-Powered Web Search Tool for Siri to Rival OpenAI, Perplexity (Bloomberg)
New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats (Ars Technica)
OpenAI starts building out its app team (The Verge)
Anthropic’s $13bn Series F raise sees it triple in value to $183bn (SiliconRepublic)
The problem of AI chatbots discussing suicide with teenagers (FT)
Parental controls are coming to ChatGPT ‘within the next month,’ OpenAI says (CNNBusiness)
Cutting-Edge AI Was Supposed to Get Cheaper. It’s More Expensive Than Ever. (WSJ)

August

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave (FT)
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich (WSJ)
AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers (Wired)
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors (The Verge)
Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade (TechCrunch)
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. (NYTimes)
Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab (Wired)
Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri (Bloomberg)
Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models (TechCrunch)
Perplexity to Let Publishers Share in Revenue from AI Searches (Bloomberg)
Inside DHL’s AI upgrade: ‘Love it or hate it, you have to work with it’ (FT)
8 Women, 4 Bedrooms and 1 Cause: Breaking A.I.’s Glass Ceiling (NYTimes)
Elon Musk tried to enlist Mark Zuckerberg in $100bn bid for OpenAI (FT)
OpenAI Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Search Data (The Information)
Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree (WSJ)
Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations (NYMag)
DeepSeek Touts Model That Outdoes Flagship in Agentic AI Step (Bloomberg)
Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again (NYTimes)
US tech stocks hit by concerns over future of AI boom (FT)
I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty (Wired)
Meta Plans Fourth Restructuring of AI Efforts in Six Months (The Information)
Zuckerberg Squandered His AI Talent. Now He’s Spending Billions To Replace It. (Forbes)
Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone (NYTimes)
Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays (Bloomberg)
AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview (WSJ)
OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again (VentureBeat)
OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT (BleepingComputer)
AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 (TechCrunch)
Anthropic offers Claude chatbot to US lawmakers for $1 (FT)
OpenAI Faces Backlash for Retiring Older Models With GPT-5 Launch (PCMag)
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. (Gary Marcus)
A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? (David Sacks)
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card (Simon Willison)
GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age (Latent Space)
Google says it’s working on a fix for Gemini’s self-loathing ‘I am a failure’ comments (Business Insider)
High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups (TechCrunch)
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ (WSJ)
GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users (The Verge)
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait (WSJ)
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 (Wired)
Anthropic’s powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you’ll want to) (ZDNet)
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese (VentureBeat)
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes (The Verge)
Voice Startup ElevenLabs Launches AI Music Service (WSJ)
Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time (The Verge)
Google’s Kaggle to host AI chess tournament to evaluate leading AI models’ reasoning skills (Silicon Angle)
Apple’s New ‘Answers’ Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push (Bloomberg)
‘Dumb’ AI Bots Collude to Rig Markets, Wharton Research Finds (Bloomberg)
Anthropic Revenue Pace Nears $5 Billion in Run-Up to Mega Round (The Information)
Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal (NYTimes)
Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel (TechCrunch)

July

Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza (NYTimes)
OpenAI Hits $12 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Breaks 700 Million ChatGPT Weekly Active Users (The Information)
Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code (VentureBeat)
Google DeepMind says its new AI can map the entire planet with unprecedented accuracy (VentureBeat)
ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems (Wired)
Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team (Bloomberg)
Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target (Wired)
AI Startup Cohere Projects $200 Million Revenue Pace as New Funding Nears (The Information)
Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies (The Information)
Microsoft revolutionizes Edge as an AI-powered web browser with new experimental ‘Copilot Mode’ — here’s how to enable it right now (Windows Central)
Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users (TechCrunch)
Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (TechCrunch)
AI start-up Anthropic open to Mideast funds in talks to double valuation to over $150bn (FT)
OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August (The Verge)
Is AI killing graduate jobs? (FT)
Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India (TechCrunch)
Google Photos adding free photo-to-video, Remix, and Create tab (9to5Google)
Musk Allies to Raise Up to $12 Billion for xAI Chips as Startup Burns Through Cash (WSJ)
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World (Simon Willison)
Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version (VentureBeat)
Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (The Verge)
Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot (The Verge)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’ (CNN)
OpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other (TechCrunch)
SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (WSJ)
Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All (Wired)
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. (Quanta Magazine)
AI groups spend to replace low-cost ‘data labellers’ with high-paid experts (FT)
OpenAI’s experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad (Engadget)
OpenAI’s gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad. (Simon Willison’s Weblog)
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you (The Verge)
OpenAI ChatGPT Agent announcement LIVE — all the big news from today’s livestream (Tom’s Guide)
AI start-up Perplexity’s valuation tops $18bn months after latest funding round (FT)
Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion (The Information)
Microsoft’s Copilot Is Getting Lapped by 900 Million ChatGPT Downloads (Bloomberg)
Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket (Fortune)
OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint (The Information)
OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues (FT)
Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own (Rest Of World)
Reflections on OpenAI (Calvin French)
Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes (NYTimes)
Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates (NYTimes)
Google to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Staff, IP After Startup Ends OpenAI Talks (The Information)
Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent (Bloomberg)
An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google ‘Hackqusition’… (Spyglass)
Elon Musk’s xAI seeks up to $200bn valuation in next fundraising (FT)
SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI (WSJ)
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free (VentureBeat)
Grok: searching X for “from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)” (Simon Willison’s Blog)
Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions (TechCrunch)
Study: Apple’s newest AI model flags health conditions with up to 92% accuracy (9to5Mac)
Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity (Second Thoughts)
Grok 4 is live — here’s what makes it Elon Musk’s most advanced AI yet (Tom’s Guide)
Meta Poached Apple’s Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million (Bloomberg)
Zuckerberg’s $100 Million AI Job Offers Are Paying Off (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome (Reuters)
Microsoft Touts $500 Million AI Savings While Slashing Jobs (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot churns out antisemitic posts days after update (NBCNews)
Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta’s Hiring Spree (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars (The Information)
This New AI Tool Wants to Work With Filmmakers—Not Replace Them (Time)
Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans (Semafor)
Zuck’s Eleven (Spyglass)
Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent (Wired)
Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ (Wired)
China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race (WSJ)
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? (NYTimes)
Zuckerberg Debuts Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Group, More Hires (Bloomberg)
Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal (Bloomberg)
Grammarly to acquire email startup Superhuman in AI platform push (Reuters)

June

OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’ (Wired)
AI avatars are here in full force—and they’re serving some of the world’s biggest companies (Fortune)
In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race (NYTimes)
Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI (The Verge)
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them (Wired)
AI is ruining houseplant communities online (The Verge)
Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem (TechCrunch)
OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get (WSJ)
Salesforce CEO Says 30% of Internal Work Is Being Handled by AI (Bloomberg)
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers (Blood In The Machine)
Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés (NYTimes)
Exclusive: Uber and Palantir alums raise $35M to disrupt corporate recruitment with AI (Fortune)
Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals (TechCrunch)
How ChatGPT and other AI tools are changing the teaching profession (AP)
ChatGPT’s Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft’s Rivalry (Bloomberg)
Goldman Sachs launches AI assistant firmwide, memo shows (Reuters)
Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B Seed Round Is Biggest By A Long Shot (Crunchbase News)
How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others (The Information)
Apple Will Need to Leave Its M&A Comfort Zone to Succeed in AI (Bloomberg)
Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI Startup Perplexity (Bloomberg)
The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs (The Verge)
The Global A.I. Divide (NYTimes)
Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO (CNBC)
Masa Son Pitches $1 Trillion US AI Hub to TSMC, Trump Team (Bloomberg)
Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content (Ars Technica)
‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit (VentureBeat)
Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund (The Information)
Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks (FT)
Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence (FT)
Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers (TechCrunch)
Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up (Bloomberg)
YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI (NBCNews)
Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade (Bloomberg)
Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals (The Verge)
Meta to Pay Nearly $15 Billion for Scale AI Stake and Startup’s 28-Year-Old CEO (The Information)
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash (404Media)
OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model (TechCrunch)
God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro (Latent Space)
Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’ (NYTimes)
Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta (Bloomberg)
News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools (WSJ)
Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
A knockout blow for LLMs? (Gary Marcus On AI)
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’ (TechCrunch)
Anysphere, Hailed as Fastest Growing Startup Ever, Raises $900 Million (Bloomberg)
Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China (MIT Technology Review)
Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video (The Verge)
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It) (Vulture)
Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models (TechCrunch)
AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations (Reuters)
Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly (The Verge)
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (Thomas Ptacek)
Apple Developer Event Will Show It’s Still Far From Being an AI Leader (Bloomberg)
Samsung Nears Wide-Ranging Deal With Perplexity for AI Features (Bloomberg)
Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally (TechCrunch)
Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups (TechCrunch)
Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (WSJ)

May

Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them (TechCrunch)
Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots (TechCrunch)
For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here (NYTimes)
Nvidia CEO Warns That Chinese AI Rivals Are Now ‘Formidable’ (Bloomberg)
DeepSeek Quietly Drops AI Update That Outperforms Google’s Best (Implicator.ai)
The Browser Company mulls selling or open-sourcing Arc Browser amid AI-focused pivot (TechCrunch)
One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models (TechCrunch)
Khosla Ventures among VCs experimenting with AI-infused roll-ups of mature companies (TechCrunch)
Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: New Claude Model Triggers Stricter Safeguards at Anthropic (Time)
Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (TechCrunch)
Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’ (VentureBeat)
Former Apple Design Guru Jony Ive to Take Expansive Role at OpenAI (WSJ)
What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive (WSJ)
Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you (The Verge)
A.I. Is Poised to Revolutionize Weather Forecasting. A New Tool Shows Promise. (NYTimes)
Google is rolling out AI Mode to everyone in the US (Engadget)
Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio (CNBC)
Watch Me Try Google’s Live Language Translator. It’s Wild. (WSJ)
GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you (The Verge)
The new Microsoft Discovery agentic platform targets scientists and researchers (Neowin)
Nvidia charges ahead with humanoid robotics aided by the cloud (GamesBeat)
Why Apple Still Hasn’t Cracked AI (Bloomberg)
Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model (WSJ)
Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models (TechCrunch)
TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool (TechCrunch)
Apple to Unveil New AI Tool to Increase iPhone Battery Life (Bloomberg)
Audible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced Audiobooks (Bloomberg)
SoftBank Stargate Venture With OpenAI Snags on Tariff Fears (Bloomberg)
Saudi Arabia launches AI venture Humain ahead of Donald Trump visit (FT)
Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors (FT)
Klarna Slows AI-Driven Job Cuts With Call for Real People (Bloomberg)
Pope Leo signals he will closely follow Francis and says AI represents challenge for humanity (CNN)
Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams (TechCrunch)
Can we make AI less power-hungry? These researchers are working on it. (Ars Technica)
OpenAI hires InstaCart CEO Fidji Simo for major leadership role (Fortune)
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI (TechCrunch)
Apple Eyes Move to AI Search, Ending Era Defined by Google (Bloomberg)
Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search (TechCrunch)
FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL (The Register)
Generative AI tops cybersecurity in 2025 tech budget priorities, new AWS study finds (GeekWire)
Mistral claims its newest AI model delivers leading performance for the price (TechCrunch)
OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Startup Windsurf for $3 Billion (Bloomberg)
Maker of AI ‘vibe coding’ app Cursor hits $9bn valuation (FT)
Reports: US losing edge in AI talent pool (Semafor)
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History (Quanta Magazine)

April

Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI (The Verge)
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI (TechCrunch)
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’ (TechCrunch)
Alibaba unveils Qwen3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google (Wired)
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (The Verge)
Apple Begins Breaking Up Its AI Team With Robotics, Siri Changes (Bloomberg)
Chinese AI Startup Manus Scores Funding at $500 Million Value (Bloomberg)
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete (WSJ)
The Race to Fix Aging Computer Systems Heats Up With AI’s Help (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Would Buy Google’s Chrome Browser, ChatGPT Chief Says (Bloomberg)
A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)
Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf (TechCrunch)
Ex-OpenAI staff and top AI experts seek to block proposed for-profit restructure (FT)
Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection (The Verge)
OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more (TechCrunch)
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after (Ethan Mollick)
The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos (TechCrunch)
OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models are all about ‘thinking with images’ (Engadget)
OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals (TechCrunch)
Vibe Check: o3 Is Here—And It’s Great (Every)
OpenAI In Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3 Billion (Bloomberg)
Perplexity AI in Talks to Integrate Assistant Into Samsung, Motorola Phones (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding (TechCrunch)
OpenAI launches another model before GPT 5 — here’s what this one can do (Tom’s Guide)
Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT Hits 1 Billion Users? ‘Doubled In Just Weeks’ Says OpenAI CEO (Forbes)
LLMs can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything (The Register)
AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk (Bleeping Computer)
OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats (TechCrunch)
OpenAI slashes AI model safety testing time (FT)
Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new AI startup to $2 billion. It could be the largest seed round in history. (Business Insider)
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 (IEEE Spectrum)
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military (MIT Technology Review)
How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover (The Information)
Google launches Agent2Agent protocol to connect AI agents across platforms (Testing Catalog)
OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks (TechCrunch)
AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works (IEA)
AI to double data centre energy demand by 2030 (Silicon Republic)
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks (The Verge)
Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’ (Bloomberg)
THE A.I. ROMANCE FACTORY (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Meta releases two Llama 4 AI models (The Verge)
AI Coding Assistant Cursor Draws a Million Users Without Even Trying (Bloomberg)
AI Video Startup Runway Valued at $3 Billion in Funding Round (Bloomberg)
AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50% (TechCrunch)
OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record (CNBC)
OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
OpenAI plans to release a new ‘open’ AI language model in the coming months (TechCrunch)

March

Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion (CNBC)
Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (TechCrunch)
Apple Readies Its Biggest Push Into Health Yet With New AI Doctor (Bloomberg)
Anthropic makes a breakthrough in opening AI’s ‘black box’ (Fortune)
Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI (Wired)
OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns (TechCrunch)
OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images (Variety)
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. (MIT Technology Review)
OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT (The Verge)
Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s ‘most intelligent AI model’ with thinking built-in (9to5Google)
Microsoft adds ‘deep reasoning’ Copilot AI for research and data analysis (The Verge)
Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features (The Verge)
How Software Engineers Actually Use AI (Wired)
New York’s longest-running play offers AI-powered live translations to attract new audiences (Semafor)
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (The Atlantic)
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content (The Register)
Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri (Bloomberg)
Gmail rolling out AI-powered ‘Most relevant’ search update (9to5Google)
How the AI Boom Created the Most Valuable Monopolies in History (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet (TechCrunch)
Cognition AI Hits $4 Billion Valuation in Deal Led by Lonsdale’s Firm (Bloomberg)
Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history (The Verge)
Adobe shares drop 13% as concerns about AI growth overshadow better-than-expected results (CNBC)
Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU (The Verge)
Sam Altman says OpenAI has trained a fiction writing AI model that’s actually decent (SiliconAngle)
Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’ (The Verge)
Exclusive: Meta begins testing its first in-house AI training chip (Reuters)
AI Search Has A Citation Problem (CJR)
China’s Autonomous Agent, Manus, Changes Everything (Forbes)
Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’ (TechCrunch)
Drone Defense Startup Shield AI Lands $5.3 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Larry Page Has a New AI Startup (The Information)
The Hottest AI Companies Right Now Are ‘Apps’ (Bloomberg)
McDonald’s Gives Its Restaurants an AI Makeover (WSJ)
Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements (VentureBeat)
OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents (The Information)
Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions (TechCrunch)
Musk’s Fight With OpenAI Set for Expedited Trial This Year (Bloomberg)
Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online (Ars Technica)
Anthropic Finalizes Megaround at $61.5 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screen (TechCrunch)
Apple’s Artificial Intelligence Efforts Reach a Make-or-Break Point (Bloomberg)

February

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model (The Verge)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’ (TechCrunch)
Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (CNBC)
Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code (Ars Technica)
Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus (The Verge)
Amazon unveils a new and improved Alexa, Alexa+ (TechCrunch)
DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in (Reuters)
Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want (TechCrunch)
AI Startup Anthropic Finalizing $3.5 Billion Funding Round (WSJ)
Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI (NeimanLab)
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups (NYTimes)
When There’s No School Counselor, There’s a Bot (WSJ)
Microsoft’s Xbox AI era starts with a model that can generate gameplay (The Verge)
Google app on iOS removing Gemini as it pushes users to full app (9to5Google)
Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with (The Verge)
Mira Murati debuts Thinking Machines Lab, her AI startup (Axios)
Elon Musk’s xAI releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3 (TechCrunch)
Impressions of Grok-3 (@karpathy)
OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s Startup Is Fundraising at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of the Company (NYTimes)
Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots (Bloomberg)
Apple and Meta Are Set to Battle Over Humanoid Robots (Bloomberg)
AI Licensing Deals With Google and OpenAI Make Up 10% of Reddit’s Revenue (AdWeek)
Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still (The Economist)
OpenAI postpones its o3 AI model in favor of a ‘unified’ next-gen release (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if its board agrees to terms (TechCrunch)
Musk, Altman Spar Over $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid in Court Filings (Bloomberg)
AI Agents Are Everywhere…and Nowhere (WSJ)
Meta In Talks To Buy Korean AI Chip Startup Founded By Samsung Engineer (Forbes)
Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk’s Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff (Wired)
Sure Elon Musk Might Buy OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI (WSJ)
Exclusive: OpenAI is not for sale, CEO Sam Altman says (Axios)
Musk’s $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid Piles Pressure on Sam Altman (WSJ)
Exclusive: OpenAI set to finalize first custom chip design this year (Reuters)
Exclusive: Anthropic’s “index” tracks AI economy (Axios)
Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI (CNBC)
Tech Giants Double Down on Their Massive AI Spending (WSJ)
Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say (CNBC)
Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50 (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Set to Make Super Bowl Ad Debut (WSJ)
OpenAI to Air Its First Super Bowl Ad (AdWeek)
Amazon’s AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling (Reuters)
Google expects to spend $75 billion this year on the AI race (The Verge)
Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky (TechCrunch)
OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’ (TechCrunch)
That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance (The Verge)

January

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December

Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership (The Information)
Microsoft and OpenAI’s Secret AGI Definition (The Information)
DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch (VentureBeat)
Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. (NYTimes)
Google reveals AI ‘reasoning’ model that ‘explicitly shows its thoughts’ (The Verge)
Instagram teases AI editing tools that will completely reimagine your videos (The Verge)
New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality (Ars Technica)
OpenAI makes ChatGPT available for phone calls and texts (CNBC)
Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (TechCrunch)
Google’s Whisk AI generator will ‘remix’ the pictures you plug in (The Verge)
Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit (WSJ)
OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit in court filing (Axios)
Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk (FT)
Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too (The Verge)
Liquid Set to Raise $250 Million to Build AI Inspired by Tiny Worm Brains (Bloomberg)
Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming model (Simon Willison’s Blog)
Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (Wired)
Google Rolls Out Faster Gemini AI Model to Power Agents (Bloomberg)
Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech (TechCrunch)
Google unveils AI coding assistant ‘Jules,’ promising autonomous bug fixes and faster development cycles (VentureBeat)
Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (TechCrunch)
I just went hands-on with Sora — the good, the bad, and the wow (Tom’s Guide)
Sora is here (OpenAI)
OpenAI’s controversial Sora is finally launching today. Will it truly disrupt Hollywood? (LA Times)
OpenAI releases Sora, its buzzy AI video-generation tool (CNBC)
OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its o1 ‘reasoning’ model (The Verge)
OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching ‘AGI’ clause with Microsoft (FT)
Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models (TechCrunch)
First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin) (Simon Willison’s Blog)
DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games (TechCrunch)
Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts (NYTimes)
Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup (TechCrunch)
Google’s new generative AI video model is now available (The Verge)
The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you (TechCrunch)

November

OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked (TechCrunch)
OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest (Washington Post)
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’ (404Media)
Inside Elon Musk’s Quest to Beat OpenAI at Its Own Game (WSJ)
Should You Still Learn to Code in an A.I. World? (NYTimes)
Nvidia shows AI model that can modify voices, generate novel sounds (Reuters)
NVIDIA’s new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts (Engadget)
Apple Readies More Conversational Siri in Bid to Catch Up in AI (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser (The Information)
How Mark Zuckerberg has fully rebuilt Meta around Llama
Nvidia’s CEO defends his moat as AI labs change how they improve their AI models (TechCrunch)
AI Power For Quantum Errors: Google Develops AlphaQubit to Identify, Correct Quantum Errors (Quantum Insider)
Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Is Valued at $50 Billion in New Funding Round (WSJ)
H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins (Bloomberg)
Want to speak Italian? Microsoft AI can make it sound like you do. (Washington Post)
Wall Street’s Elites Are Piling Into a Massive AI Gamble (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT App for Windows Now Available to Everyone (PCMag)
NASA’s AI Earth Copilot will take your questions about our planet (The Verge)
Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop (The Verge)
Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World (Wired)
OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users (Bloomberg)
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI (Bloomberg)
OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations (Reuters)
OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of ‘GPT’ AI Improvements Slows (The Information)
How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant (WSJ)
Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million (NYTimes)
AI Startup Perplexity to Triple Valuation to $9 Billion in New Funding Round (WSJ)
Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI (TechCrunch)
Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model (TechCrunch)
ChatGPT Search is not OpenAI’s ‘Google killer’ yet (TechCrunch)
Wall Street frenzy creates $11bn debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips (FT)
OpenAI Brings Search Features to ChatGPT in Challenge to Google (Bloomberg)
Meta’s AI Abundance (Stratechery)

October

Meta AI has more than 500 million users (Engadget)
Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else (Wired)
Microsoft says AI is on pace to be a $10 billion-a-year business (Axios)
GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI (The Verge)
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI (The Verge)
Samsung’s Sudden $122 Billion Wipeout Shows the Cost of Sleeping on AI (Bloomberg)
Apple Intelligence goes live with iOS 18.1 update (TechCrunch)
We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI (TechCrunch)
Meta Releases NotebookLlama, An Open-Source Podcast Generator (Techopedia)
OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December (The Verge)
Anthropic’s new AI can use computers like a human, redefining automation for enterprises (VentureBeat)
Runway’s Act-One uses smartphone cameras to replicate facial expression motion capture (Silicon Angle)
‘This is a game changer’: Runway releases new AI facial expression motion capture feature Act-One (VentureBeat)
How AI groups are infusing their chatbots with personality (FT)
Microsoft unveils new autonomous AI agents in advance of competing Salesforce rollout (GeekWire)
AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $8 Billion (WSJ)
IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI (VentureBeat)
Apple’s New iPad Mini Highlights the Company’s Secret AI Advantage (Bloomberg)
Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro (The Verge)
OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch (Wired)
OpenAI says bad actors are using its platform to disrupt elections, but with little ‘viral engagement’ (CNBC)
Google DeepMind Scientists Share Nobel for AI Protein Work (Bloomberg)
‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton Among Nobel Prize Winners (Bloomberg)
Meta Unveils AI Video Generator, Taking On OpenAI and Google (Bloomberg)
Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge (WSJ)
Grindr Aims to Build the Dating World’s First AI ‘Wingman’ (WSJ)
Google Lens now lets you search with video (The Verge)
Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (TechCrunch)
OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects (TechCrunch)
OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever (Axios)
OpenAI asks investors not to back rival start-ups such as Elon Musk’s xAI (FT)
OpenAI feels competitors breathing down its neck (FT)
Microsoft is using AI to improve Windows search (The Verge)
Microsoft starts paying publishers for content surfaced by Copilot (TechCrunch)
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4 (VentureBeat)
MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art (VentureBeat)
Microsoft Copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you (TechCrunch)
Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup (TechCrunch)
NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective (Simon Willison’s Blog)

September

Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face (Ars Technica)
AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies (FT)
OpenAI considering restructuring to for-profit, CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs depart (CNBC)
Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity (Reuters)
The Intelligence Age (Sam Altman)
Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post (TechCrunch)
OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” (Ars Technica)
Spotify’s AI playlist builder is now available in the US (The Verge)
Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It’s Restarting Site of US Nuclear Meltdown (Bloomberg)
AI is stressing networks out - Nvidia thinks AI can help (Fierce Network)
YouTube will use AI to generate ideas, titles, and even full videos (The Verge)
SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts (TechCrunch)
Lionsgate, Studio Behind ‘John Wick,’ Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway (WSJ)
OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted (Futurism)
Slack now lets users add AI agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, Workday and more (VentureBeat)
OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities (The Verge)
Notes on OpenAI’s new o1 chain-of-thought models (Simon Willison’s Weblog)
OpenAI’s new models ‘instrumentally faked alignment’ (TransformerNews)
OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion (Bloomberg)
The AI Spending Spree, in Charts (WSJ)
Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (TechCrunch)
Reflection 70B model maker breaks silence amid fraud accusations (VentureBeat)
New Details on OpenAI’s Strawberry; Apple’s Siri Makeover; Larry Ellison Doubles Down on Data Centers (The Information)
Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators (Bloomberg)
Musk’s xAI Has Discussed Deal for Share of Future Tesla Revenue (WSJ)
Exclusive: Honor’s latest devices use AI to try to reverse nearsightedness (Android Central)
Microsoft to announce ‘next phase of Copilot’ on September 16th (The Verge)
Two AI Developers Are Plotting $125 Billion Supercomputers (The Information)
Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase (The Verge)

August

OpenAI Funding Round Tempts Nvidia as Big Tech Leans on ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)
Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic’s AI for Alexa revamp (Reuters)
ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year (The Verge)
OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion (WSJ)
OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’ (The Information)
OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business (The Information)
Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (SiliconAngle)
Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here (The Verge)
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (TechCrunch)
China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions (FT)
AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1bn of funding to claim ‘killer app’ status (FT)
Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (The Verge)
Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts (The Verge)
Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)
OpenAI makes fine-tuning for GPT-4o customization generally available (SiliconAngle)
Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives (The Verge)
X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (The Verge)
The Google Pixel 9’s AI Camera Features Let You Reshape Reality (Wired)
Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here (The Verge)
Forget Midjourney — Flux is the new king of AI image generation and here’s how to get access (Tom’s Guide)
ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google (FT)
Gemini intelligence is coming to Google Home (The Verge)
OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave (TechCrunch)
Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout from Big Tech (WSJ)
There’s a Tool to Catch Students Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn’t Released It. (WSJ)
Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman (NYTimes)
Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator (VentureBeat)
The AI Keeps Score (The Verge)
Meta’s Lesson in Allaying Wall Street’s A.I. Fears (NYTimes DealBook)
Meta’s AI Costs Surge as Digital Advertising Revenue Grows (WSJ)
A first look at Apple Intelligence and its (slightly) smarter Siri (The Verge)

July

Meta Scraps Celebrity AI Chatbots That Fell Flat With Users (The Information)
Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck (Wired)
Video Announcing the Friend AI device (Twitter)
Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations (The Verge)
Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones) (404Media)
Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (TechCrunch)
Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers (Engadget)
Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts (TechCrunch)
Apple’s AI Features Rollout Will Miss Upcoming iPhone Software Overhaul (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk calls Grok ‘the most powerful AI by every metric’ but ‘secretly’ trains the new model with your X data by default (WindowsCentral)
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (The Verge)
Google’s Exclusive Reddit Access (404Media)
Microsoft unveils Bing Generative Search — enhanced with AI, it’s a complete overhaul of traditional search (WindowsCentral)
Mistral shocks with new open model Mistral Large 2, taking on Llama 3.1 (VentureBeat)
Stability AI steps into a new gen AI dimension with Stable Video 4D (VentureBeat)
The problem of ‘model collapse’: how a lack of human data limits AI progress (FT)
Meta puts open source AI on the podium. (Ben’s Bites)
The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B (Ars Technica)
Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (WSJ)
AI helps to produce breakthrough in weather and climate forecasting (FT)
How AI Brought 11,000 College Football Players to Digital Life in Three Months (WSJ)
OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet (CNBC)
OpenAI’s 4o-mini brings big brains on a budget. (Ben’s Bites)
Scoop: Meta won’t offer future multimodal AI models in EU (Axios)
Apple says its OpenELM model doesn’t power Apple Intelligence amid YouTube controversy (9to5Mac)
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (Proof)
Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation (VentureBeat)
Samsung’s new image-generating AI tool is a little too good (The Verge)
Microsoft’s new AI system ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity (VentureBeat)
Has Artificial Intelligence Co-opted the Sparkle Emoji? (Bloomberg)
Defeated by A.I., a Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What’s Next (NYTimes)
This $1.5 Billion AI Company Is Building A ‘General Purpose Brain’ For Robots (Forbes)
Andreessen Horowitz Is Building a Stash of More Than 20,000 GPUs to Win AI Deals (The Information)
OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’ (The Verge)
Qualcomm, Microsoft Lean on AI Hype to Spur PC Market Revival (Bloomberg)
AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report (Tom’s Hardware)
Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (404 Media)
Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design (The Verge)
Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact (Bloomberg)
Meta drops ‘3D Gen’ bomb: AI-powered 3D asset creation at lightning speed (VentureBeat)
Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn (NYTimes)
A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots (NYTimes)
This is Big Tech’s playbook for swallowing the AI industry (The Verge)
Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face’s LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened (Tom’s Hardware)

June

OpenAI’s China Block to Reshape AI Scene as Big Players Pounce (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI (Wired)
Figma announces big redesign with AI (The Verge)
The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants (NYTimes)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac app is now available to everyone (9to5Mac)
Tech Investor Sean Parker Leads Rescue of Struggling AI Startup (WSJ)
‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots (404 Media)
Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership With Meta Months Ago (Bloomberg)
Google Develops Challenger to Meta’s Chatbots and Character.AI (The Information)
Amazon is secretly working on a ChatGPT killer (Business Insider)
EvolutionaryScale lands $142 mln to advance AI in biology (Reuters)
Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership (WSJ)
AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers (WSJ)
Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows AI power users: ‘this is wild’ (VentureBeat)
Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence (Bloomberg)
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (Wired)
For Apple’s AI Push, China Is a Missing Piece (WSJ)
Apple’s Slow Rollout of Intelligence Features Will Stretch Into 2025 (Bloomberg)
McDonald’s is ending its drive-thru AI test (Restaurant Business Online)
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human (BBC)
AI in finance is like ‘moving from typewriters to word processors’ (FT)
Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed (The Verge)
Here’s how Apple’s AI model tries to keep your data private (The Verge)
Luma AI debuts ‘Dream Machine’ for realistic video generation, heating up AI media race (VentureBeat)
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Doubles to $3.4 Billion Since Late 2023 (The Information)
Perplexity was planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers when it came under media fire (Semafor)
Microsoft is killing off GPT Builder in Copilot Pro for consumers, just three months after broad availability (XDA Developers)
First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’ (NYTimes)
Apple’s AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple” (Ars Technica)
How will Apple’s new AI change your phone? I asked Tim Cook. (Washington Post)
Apple’s Push to Infuse Devices With AI Will Take Years to Pay Off (Bloomberg)
Mistral secures €600mn funding as valuation soars to almost €6bn (FT)
Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event (Bloomberg)
‘This Is Going to Be Painful’: How a Bold A.I. Device Flopped (NYTimes)
Stability AI releases a sound generator (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (NYTimes)
Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI (Bloomberg)
Nvidia’s G-Assist is an AI chatbot that guides you through games and optimizes your PC (The Verge)
Perplexity will research and write reports (The Verge)

May

OpenAI has a has a new version of ChatGPT just for universities (Engadget)
OpenAI Is Rebooting Its Robotics Team (Forbes)
Apple Plans AI-Based Siri Overhaul to Control Individual App Functions (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: The Atlantic, Vox Media ink licensing, product deals with OpenAI (Axios)
OpenAI CEO Cements Control as He Secures Apple Deal (The Information)
Internal divisions linger at OpenAI after November’s attempted coup (FT)
Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter (Bloomberg)
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model (NYTimes)
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest (The Verge)
Apple Bets That Its Giant User Base Will Help It Win in AI (Bloomberg)
Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook (TechCrunch)
The future of financial analysis: How GPT-4 is disrupting the industry, according to new research (VentureBeat)
AI Is Driving ‘the Next Industrial Revolution.’ Wall Street Is Cashing In. (WSJ)
Google’s AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza (Business Insider)
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show (Washington Post)
OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (WSJ)
Truecaller and Microsoft will let users make an AI voice to answer calls (The Verge)
Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks (The Verge)
Wearable AI Startup Humane Explores Potential Sale, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads (Wired)
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (CNBC)
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (Wired)
Scarlett Johansson says she was ‘shocked, angered’ when she heard OpenAI’s voice that sounded like her (NBCNews)
OpenAI to Pull Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson (NYTimes)
Apple Needs to Evolve to Compete in the Artificial Intelligence Era (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded (Wired)
OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT (Reuters)
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (The Verge)
ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive (VentureBeat)
Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30% (Bloomberg)
Stability AI, Facing Cash Crunch, Discusses Sale (The Information)
Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon (SearchEngineLand)
Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web? (NYTimes)
Google’s Project Astra uses your phone’s camera and AI to find noise makers, misplaced items and more. (Engadget)
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he will leave the startup (CNBC)
OpenAI debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ model now powering ChatGPT (TechCrunch)
OpenAI debuts new model with enhanced real-time voice abilities (Axios)
Apple Nears Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone (Bloomberg)
Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year (Bloomberg)
ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (VentureBeat)
Google DeepMind unveils AI model for living cells (FT)
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (TomsHardware)
OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (Bloomberg)
Apple Is Developing AI Chips for Data Centers, Seeking Edge in Arms Race (WSJ)
Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI (The Information)
YouTube’s AI-powered ‘Jump Ahead’ feature rolling out widely to Premium users (AndroidAuthority)
AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible (Bloomberg)
An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war (AP)
Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (VentureBeat)
Washed Out’s new music video was created with AI. Is it a watershed moment for Sora? (LA Times)
Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything? (Wired)
Amazon-backed Anthropic launches iPhone app and business tier to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (CNBC)
Microsoft Concern Over Google’s Lead Drove OpenAI Investment (Bloomberg)
Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived (Gizmodo)

April

Copilot Workspace is GitHub’s take on AI-powered software engineering (TechCrunch)
Apple Intensifies Talks With OpenAI for iPhone Generative AI Features (Bloomberg)
Investors Cheer AI Spending Boom in Big Tech—Just Not at Meta (WSJ)
The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal (FT)
AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable (Fast Company)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders to Serve on AI Safety Board (WSJ)
Zuckerberg Asks for Patience as Meta’s AI Push Spooks Market (Bloomberg)
Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI (The Verge)
Six-Month-Old AI Coding Startup Valued at $2 Billion by Founders Fund (The Information)
Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted (NYTimes)
Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (The Verge)
AI Search Startup Perplexity Valued at $1 Billion in Funding Round (Bloomberg)
Adobe’s new Firefly model makes it easier to use Photoshop’s AI tools (The Verge)
Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now (The Verge)
Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps (NYTimes)
Cool or creepy? Microsoft’s VASA-1 is a new AI model that turns photos into ‘talking faces’ (Tom’s Guide)
US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight (The Verge)
Microsoft’s AI Copilot Is Starting to Automate the Coding Industry (Bloomberg)
Mistral, an OpenAI Rival in Europe, in Talks to Raise Capital at a $5 Billion Valuation (The Information)
Microsoft to invest $1.5bn in Abu Dhabi AI group G42 (FT)
Limitless is a new AI tool for your meetings — and an all-hearing wearable gadget (The Verge)
ChatGPT essay cheats are a menace to us all (FT)
OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking (The Information)
Is Google’s AI Actually Discovering ‘Millions of New Materials?’ (404 Media)
AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (Rolling Stone)
Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (Bloomberg)
Google Launches Coding AIs That Could Rival Microsoft’s Github Copilot (PCMag)
Apple’s new AI model could help Siri see how iOS apps work (AppleInsider)
Gmail adding voice input, Gemini for Google Chat, Meet ‘Translate for me,’ & more (9to5Google)
Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data (Reuters)
How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class (NYTimes)
The 18 most interesting startups from YC’s Demo Day show we’re in an AI bubble (TechCrunch)
Business Schools Are Going All In on AI (WSJ)
AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better (The Verge)
Amazon scrambles for its place in the AI race (The Verge)
Gen-AI Search Engine Perplexity Has a Plan to Sell Ads (Adweek)

March

“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time (Ars Technica)
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (CNBC)
OpenAI’s app store draws investors and students seeking artificial aids (FT)
The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla (NYTimes)
Databricks launches DBRX, challenging Big Tech in the open source AI race (VentureBeat)
Databricks open-sources its own large language model, DBRX (SiliconAngle)
Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4 (TechCrunch)
The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams (WSJ)
OpenAI shows off first examples of third-party creators using Sora (VentureBeat)
Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans To Resign As CEO, Sources Say (Forbes)
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story (Wired)
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to Run Consumer AI (Bloomberg)
A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything (Rolling Stone)
Nvidia launches NIM to make it smoother to deploy AI models into production (TechCrunch)
Nvidia enlists humanoid robotics’ biggest names for new AI platform, GR00T (TechCrunch)
Nvidia announces Earth-2 digital twin to forecast planet’s climate change (VentureBeat)
Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can bring still photos to life (VentureBeat)
Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (VentureBeat)
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (Bloomberg)
Apple researchers achieve breakthroughs in multimodal AI as company ramps up investments (VentureBeat)
xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code (TechCrunch)
Musk’s Grok AI goes open source (VentureBeat)
Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features (Bloomberg)
How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race (Vox)
Microsoft has added the GPT-4 Turbo LLM to the free version of Copilot (Neowin)
Microsoft says new AI security chatbot pricing model lets customers ‘buy what they need’ (CNBC)
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability (VentureBeat)
Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss (AdWeek)
Perplexity brings Yelp data to its chatbot (The Verge)
Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week (TechCrunch)
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering (IEEE Spectrum)
Anthropic unveils Claude 3, surpassing GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra in benchmark tests (VentureBeat)
Google-backed Anthropic debuts its most powerful chatbot yet, as generative AI battle heats up (CNBC)
Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook (CNBC)
Alibaba’s new AI system ‘EMO’ creates realistic talking and singing videos from photos (VentureBeat)
The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley’s Giants (WSJ)

February

StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs (TechCrunch)
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding (CNBC)
Apple’s Scrapped Car Project Means AI and Headset Bets Are More Urgent (Bloomberg)
Google CEO calls AI tool’s controversial responses ‘completely unacceptable’ (Semafor)
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (404 Media)
Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people (FastCompany)
Stable Diffusion 3.0 debuts new diffusion transformation architecture to reinvent text-to-image gen AI (VentureBeat)
Google Pauses Gemini’s Image Generation of People to Fix Historical Inaccuracies (PC Mag)
Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors (The Verge)
Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google (Reuters)
Google Gemma: because Google doesn’t want to give away Gemini yet (The Verge)
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups (NYTimes)
UK, Allies Look to Arm Ukraine With AI-Enabled Swarm Drones (Bloomberg)
OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (The Verge)
OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos (Wired)
OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos — and they look decent (TechCrunch)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Seeks US Blessing to Raise Billions for AI Chips (Bloomberg)
Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready (The Verge)
Google’s new Gemini model can analyze an hour-long video — but few people can use it (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge to Google (The Information)
ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like (The Verge)
What comes after Stable Diffusion? Stable Cascade could be Stability AI’s future text-to-image generative AI model (VentureBeat)
OpenAI Researcher Andrej Karpathy Departs (The Information)
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (Gizmodo)
Chat With RTX brings custom local chatbots to Nvidia AI PCs (VentureBeat)
NVIDIA’s New AI Chatbot Relies On Local Files, Not the Cloud (HowToGeek)
Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC (The Verge)
Google’s Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of the AI future (The Verge)
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (WSJ)
Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? (Bloomberg)
AI Just Discovered ‘Unreadable’ Ancient Scrolls
Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini (The Verge)
Google Assistant Just Got Supercharged With AI. It Might Be the Biggest Update in Google’s History. (Gizmodo)
Google Joins Effort to Help Spot Content Made With A.I. (NYTimes)
OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks (The Information)
OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (The Verge)
Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing (VentureBeat)
Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI (VentureBeat)
Did You Use ChatGPT On Your School Applications? These Words May Tip Off Admissions (Forbes)
Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app (TechCrunch)
The Arc browser is getting better bookmarks and search results, all thanks to AI (The Verge)
AI Can Speed Drug Discovery. But Is It Really Better Than a Human? (Bloomberg)
Google launches an AI-powered image generator (TechCrunch)

January

Humanoid Robot Startup Figure AI in Funding Talks With Microsoft, OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Figure AI in talks with Microsoft and OpenAI for funding (ReadWrite)
Figure-01: AI learns how to make coffee like a human (ReadWrite)
Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, report says (Business Insider)
Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I. (NYTimes)
Meta releases ‘Code Llama 70B’, an open-source behemoth to rival private AI development (VentureBeat)
OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work (TechCrunch)
Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations (Ars Technica)
Apple boosts plans to bring generative AI to iPhones (FT)
OPENAI STRUGGLING TO DESTROY ONSLAUGHT OF AI GIRLFRIENDS (The Byte)
AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store (QZ)
Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status (TechCrunch)
Altman Seeks to Raise Billions for Network of AI Chip Factories (Bloomberg)
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use (VentureBeat)
Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence (The Verge)
Samsung says Galaxy AI features will only be free ‘until the end of 2025’ (9to5Google)
The rabbit r1 will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer your queries (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Bing Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On (Bloomberg)
How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority (Bloomberg)
Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God (Fast Company)
How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out (Ars Technica)
OpenAI Launches New Store For Users to Share Custom Chatbots (Bloomberg)
AI-Generated ‘George Carlin’ Comedy Special Blasted by Comedian’s Daughter (RollingStone)
Humane lays off 4 percent of employees before releasing its AI Pin (The Verge)
Rabbit’s Little Walkie-Talkie Learns Tasks That Stump Siri and Alexa (Wired)
Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform (Quora)
DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals (FT)
OpenAI and journalism (OpenAI Blog)
Luma raises $43M to build AI that crafts 3D models (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Offers Publishers as Little as $1 Million a Year (The Information)
A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. (Politico)
Can Midjourney’s CEO Stop a Storm of Fake Election Images? (Bloomberg)
How AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers (FT)
Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS (The Verge)

2023

December

Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices (Bloomberg)
Big Tech outspends venture capital firms in AI investment frenzy (FT)
Anthropic Projects At Least $850 Million in Annualized Revenue Rate Next Year (The Information)
Apple quietly released an open source multimodal LLM in October (VentureBeat)
Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers (NYTimes)
OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100 Billion or More (Bloomberg)
As the AI era begins, Reddit is leaning into its humanity (Fast Company)
Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature via Suno integration (TechCrunch)
What Do AI Companies Want With the Media? (NYMag)
OpenAI Says Board Can Overrule CEO on Safety of New AI Releases (Bloomberg)
Grimes is working on an interactive AI toy for kids. Meet Grok. (Washington Post)
OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check (Wired)
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (NYTimes)
Google Offers Enhanced Generative AI Features for Cloud Customers (Bloomberg)
OpenAI to Pay Politico Parent Axel Springer for Using Its Content (WSJ)
Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round (NYTimes)
This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go (NYTimes)
Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great (TechCrunch)
Google launches NotebookLM powered by Gemini Pro, drops waitlist (9to5Google)
The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project (Ars Technica)
AI and Mass Spying
Meta launches a standalone AI-powered image generator (TechCrunch)
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft readies ‘groundbreaking’ AI-focused Windows release as new leadership takes the helm (Windows Central)
Apple launches MLX machine-learning framework for Apple Silicon (ComputerWorld)
Meet Gemini, the AI That Google Says Is Way, Way Better Than ChatGPT (Gizmodo)
Google’s Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro — and eventually to Android (The Verge)
Meta, IBM Create Industrywide AI Alliance to Share Technology (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT will no longer comply if you ask it to repeat a word ‘forever’— after a recent prompt revealed training data and personal info (Business Insider)
Google Postpones Big AI Launch as OpenAI Zooms Ahead (The Information)
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (Wired)
The Robots Will Insider Trade (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that? (The Verge)

November

OpenAI Will Add Microsoft as Board Observer, Plans Governance Changes (Bloomberg)
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI (The Verge)
ChatGPT’s training data can be exposed via a “divergence attack” (StackDiary)
Stability AI Has Explored Sale as Investor Urges CEO to Resign (Bloomberg)
Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies (NYTimes)
OpenAI Is Still an $86 Billion Nonprofit (Bloomberg)
Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (The Verge)
OpenAI’s Board Approached Anthropic About Merger (The Information)
@eastdakota’s Tweet Thread on Microsoft and OpenAI (Twitter)
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI (The Atlantic)
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT (The Verge)
YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators (Wired)
Robots to Outnumber People at UPS’s Massive New Warehouse (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Pauses New ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Due To Surge In Demand (Search Engine Journal)
AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time (FT)
OpenAI’s six-member board will decide ‘when we’ve attained AGI’ (VentureBeat)
OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence’ (FT)
Exclusive: Google in talks to invest in AI startup Character.AI (Reuters)
AI is about to completely change how you use computers
Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane’s AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration (The Verge)
OpenAI Launches GPT-4 Turbo (TechCrunch)
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT (The Verge)
Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (CNBC)
AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee Builds $1 Billion Startup in Eight Months (Bloomberg)
Musk’s xAI set to launch first AI model to select group (Reuters)
Attenuating Innovation (AI) (Stratechery)
LinkedIn’s new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job (CNBC)
DeepMind’s latest AlphaFold model is more useful for drug discovery (TechCrunch)
Google DeepMind boss hits back at Meta AI chief over ‘fearmongering’ claim (CNBC)

October

Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (Insider)
New Version Of ChatGPT Gives Access To All GPT-4 Tools At Once (Search Engine Journal)
Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to AI Startup Anthropic (WSJ)
Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First (WSJ)
OpenAI forms team to study ‘catastrophic’ AI risks, including nuclear threats (TechCrunch)
“Math is hard” — if you are an LLM – and why that matters
Inside Apple’s Big Plan to Bring Generative AI to All Its Devices (Bloomberg)
An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I. (NYTimes)
Computers Are Learning to Smell (The Atlantic)
OpenAI Dropped Work on New ‘Arrakis’ AI Model in Rare Setback (The Information)
Tongue Twisted: Adams Taps AI to Make City Robocalls in Languages He Doesn’t Speak (The City)
Adobe Is Focused on AI Rather Than Figma With Acquisition in Limbo (Bloomberg)
Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other (TechCrunch)
Adobe Firefly can now generate more realistic images (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips (Reuters)
How Will A.I. Learn Next? (The New Yorker)
Vera wants to use AI to cull generative models’ worst behaviors (TechCrunch)
Google announces AI-powered photo-editing features for new Pixel phones (TechCrunch)
Anthropic in Talks to Raise $2 Billion From Google and Others Just Days After Amazon Investment (The Information)
Frec steps out of stealth with $26M in funding, aiming to democratize sophisticated investing with AI (VentureBeat)

September

Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data (The Verge)
Could ‘The Terminator’ really happen? Experts assess Hollywood’s visions of AI. (Washington Post)
Facebook and Instagram will soon get a slew of AI-powered creator tools (The Verge)
Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere (The Verge)
OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture (FT)
Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone (TechCrunch)
Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project (The Information)
Hollywood Studios Can Train AI Models on Writers’ Work Under Tentative Deal (WSJ)
Amazon to invest up to $4bn in AI start-up Anthropic (FT)
You can now prompt ChatGPT with pictures and voice commands (The Verge)
YouTube to add AI creator tools to find music for videos, add dubs (TechCrunch)
YouTube Shorts to gain a generative AI feature called Dream Screen (TechCrunch)
The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI (Quanta Magazine)
Unraveling The AI-Generated Spiral Art Phenomenon
Microsoft unveils unified Copilot that extends across Bing, Edge, and Windows (Windows Central)
Amazon brings generative AI to Alexa (TechCrunch)
OpenAI releases third version of DALL-E (The Verge)
Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study (Ars Technica)
Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive (The Verge)
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player “Useless” (Futurism)
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans (TechCrunch)
US Copyright Office denies protection for another AI-created image (Reuters)
Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates (WSJ)
Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds (The Verge)
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water (AP)
China turns to AI in hopes of creating viral online propaganda, Microsoft researchers say (Cyberscoop)
Microsoft Says It Will Protect Customers from AI Copyright Lawsuits (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: ChatGPT traffic slips again for third month in a row (Reuters)
What OpenAI Really Wants (Wired)
How artificial intelligence could help us talk to animals
Apple Boosts Spending to Develop Conversational AI (The Information)
OpenAI to Host First Developer Conference in San Francisco (Bloomberg)
Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies (NYTimes)
The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever (Wired)

August

Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans (NYTimes)
UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI (FT)
OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending (The Information)
Samsung debuts its own ‘AI-powered’ smart recipe app (Engadget)
Google to Add AI Models from Meta, Anthropic to Its Cloud Platform (Bloomberg)
Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you (The Verge)
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plan for enterprise customers (TechCrunch)
Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama (The Verge)
IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java (TechCrunch)
OpenAI brings fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo (TechCrunch)
Salesforce Leads Financing of AI Startup at More Than $4 Billion Valuation (The Information)
Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages (TechCrunch)
REVEALED: THE AUTHORS WHOSE PIRATED BOOKS ARE POWERING GENERATIVE AI (The Atlantic)
Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software (The Information)
A New Role for Werner Herzog: The Voice of A.I. Poetry (NYTimes)
OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Struggles to Gain on Google Despite Its Head Start in AI Search (WSJ)
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot (Semafor)
Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements (TechCrunch)
Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (NYTimes)
Amazon taps generative AI to enhance product reviews (TechCrunch)
Google-backed Anthropic raises $100 mln from South Korea’s SK Telecom (Reuters)
4 Actual Use Cases for Blockchain and AI That Are More Than Just Hype
Messina joins Ride Home Fund’s new $15M AI vehicle, backed by Andreessen, Dixon, Crowley (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Launches GPTBot With Details On How To Restrict Access (SearchEngineJournal)
A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks (NYTimes)
When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen
How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund a universal basic income (Vox)
Meta’s AI music generator could be the new synthesizer — or just muzak (The Verge)
Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to retain users (FT)
Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover (Axios)
Amazon wants Alexa to bring AI into the home (Axios)
Pearson Offers New AI Study Tools in Time for Back-to-School (Bloomberg)

July

Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back (Decrypt)
Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart (NYTimes)
Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (Decrypt)
Meta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsibly (The Verge)
Fable unveils Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star
Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles (NYTimes)
Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (Ars Technica)
Meta open-sources Llama 2, but with strings attached (MoneyControl)
Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications (Ars Technica)
Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models (FT)
Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (TechCrunch)
Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI (Axios)
Musk Unveils xAI in New Bid to Rival Startup OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals (FT)
Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool (TechCrunch)
AI Startup Anthropic Releases a New Version of Its ChatGPT Rival, Claude (Bloomberg)
The AI Boom Is Here. The Cloud May Not Be Ready. (WSJ)
Code Interpreter comes to all ChatGPT Plus users — ‘anyone can be a data analyst now’ (VentureBeat)
In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry (WSJ)
OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (TechCrunch)

June

When Will AI Generate a Hollywood Blockbuster? “Give It About Three Years.”
Inflection AI Raises $1 Billion (Forbes)
AI Frenzy Draws Hordes to Private Markets in Industry Gold Rush (Bloomberg)
Baseball Scouts Call In Artificial Intelligence Help From the Bullpen (WSJ)
Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Plans ChatGPT ‘Personal Assistant for Work,’ Setting Up Microsoft Rivalry (The Information)
Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML (WSJ)
Startup Stability Debuts a New AI Model For Stable Diffusion (Bloomberg)
Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images (WSJ)
Dropbox’s AI tools can help you find your stuff — from everywhere on the internet (The Verge)
Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up. (WSJ)
When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You (WSJ)
AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content (FT)
Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure (Bloomberg)
Google Lens can now identify rashes and other skin conditions (9to5Google)
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (TechCrunch)
OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing (TechCrunch)
Meta AI researchers unveil I-JEPA, a computer vision model that learns more like humans do (SiliconAngle)
Layoffs and AI Are Changing Tech’s Once-Invincible Job Market (Bloomberg)
Larry Ellison Rides AI Boom to Highest Wealth Ranking Ever (Bloomberg)
Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a ‘final’ Beatles song (BBC)
Meta’s open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs (The Decoder)
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (Ars Technica)
How AI art killed an indie book cover contest (The Verge)
Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms (Axios)
New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning (NYTimes)
Adobe is so confident its Firefly generative AI won’t breach copyright that it’ll cover your legal bills (Fast Company)
Google claims that Bard is improving at math and programming (TechCrunch)
Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster (MIT Technology Review)
Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products (Ars Technica)
A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom (NYTimes)
Wall Street Banks Are Using AI to Rewire the World of Finance (Bloomberg)

May

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn (NYTimes)
The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter) (NYTimes)
Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. (NYTimes)
Google starts rolling out Search Generative Experience (SGE) in preview (9to5Google)
Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans (Quanta Magazine)
Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio lets developers build their own AI ‘copilots’ (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Copilot and Bing AI plug-ins will be interoperable with ChatGPT (The Verge)
That podcast ad you’re listening to may soon be AI. Spotify is reportedly developing bots to mimic your favorite hosts. (Insider)
Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages (MIT Technology Review)
Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop (The Verge)
Anthropic raises $450M to build next-gen AI assistants (TechCrunch)
We Put Google’s New AI Writing Assistant to the Test (Wired)
AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app (Ars Technica)
Link to the official ChatGPT App in the App Store
In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels (NYTimes)
StableStudio is Stability AI’s latest commitment to open-source AI (The Verge)
The race to bring generative AI to mobile devices (FT)
Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles (Stratechery)
AI startup Together raises funding for open-source AI and cloud platform (VentureBeat)
Anthropic’s latest model can take ‘The Great Gatsby’ as input (TechCrunch)
Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (TechCrunch)
End of the Billable Hour? Law Firms Get On Board With Artificial Intelligence (WSJ)
Join the waitlist for Google’s generative AI tools, including search, Project Tailwind, & MusicLM (XDA Developers)
Google makes its text-to-music AI public (TechCrunch)
AI Needs Specialized Processors. Crypto Miners Say They Have Them (Bloomberg)
Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI (TechCrunch)
Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model (TechCrunch)
Google rebrands AI tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI — its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot (The Verge)
The AI takeover of Google Search starts now (The Verge)
Wendy’s, Google Train Next-Generation Order Taker: an AI Chatbot (WSJ)
GPTZero App Seeks to Thwart AI Plagiarism in Schools, Online Media (Bloomberg)
Alphabet to unveil A.I. updates at Google I/O, showing off creative writing and coding capabilities (CNBC)
Google Plans to Make Search More ‘Personal’ with AI Chat and Video Clips (WSJ)
Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is “huge,” but care is needed (Axios)
Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model (TechCrunch)
Google Is Falling Behind in AI Arms Race, Senior Engineer Warns (Bloomberg)
OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT (The Information)
AI Singers Are Unnervingly Good and Already Ubiquitous (Vulture)
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more (The Verge)
ChatGPT ‘portfolio’ outperforms leading UK funds (FT)
Scared of Leaking Data to ChatGPT? Microsoft Tests a Private Alternative (The Information)
Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview (TechCrunch)
ChatGPT Will See You Now: Doctors Using AI to Answer Patient Questions (WSJ)
Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’? (NYTimes)

April

Apple’s Siri Chief Struggles With Turf Wars as New AI Era Begins (The Information)
35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now (NYTimes)
Apple Plans AI-Powered Health Coaching Service, Mood Tracker and iPad Health App (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Offers New Privacy Options for ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
Nvidia releases a toolkit to make text-generating AI ‘safer’ (TechCrunch)
Opera One is a browser designed for generative AI features (Engadget)
An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World (NYTimes)
Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI (Forbes)
Google Looks to Turbocharge AI Efforts With Combined Brain, DeepMind Unit (WSJ)
Google gives Bard the ability to generate and debug code (Engadget)
Watch the first demo of buzzy startup Humane’s wearable AI assistant in leaked clips (The Verge)
OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it (MIT Technology Review)
Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models (TechCrunch)
Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems (NYTimes)
Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award (Motherboard)
Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs (Ars Technica)
Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals (NYTimes)
Amazon Joins Microsoft, Google in AI Race Spurred by ChatGPT (WSJ)
Amazon Is Joining the Generative AI Race (Wired)
With a wave of new LLMs, open-source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate (VentureBeat)
Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs (Insider)
AI is already taking video game illustrators’ jobs in China (Rest of World)
Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI right now
Think of language models like ChatGPT as a “calculator for words”
Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI (TechCrunch)
ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused (Washington Post)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Include Chat AI (WSJ)
Meta to debut ad-creating generative AI this year, CTO says (NikkeiAsia)
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news (NeimanLab)
Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism (FT)
AI is entering an era of corporate control (The Verge)

March

The Open Letter to Stop ‘Dangerous’ AI Race Is a Huge Mess (Motherboard)
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads (The Verge)
Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI (The Information)
Elon Musk’s AI History May Be Behind His Call To Pause Development (Forbes)
Elon Musk and top AI researchers call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’ (The Verge)
Generative AI set to affect 300mn jobs across major economies (FT)
Google Search is adding new ‘Perspectives’ and ‘About this author’ features to help users verify info (TechCrunch)
Cerebras releases seven large language models for generative AI, trained on its specialized hardware (SiliconAngle)
Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub (Bloomberg)
Tech’s AI Armies Are Huge, Yet Struggling to Innovate (Bloomberg)
For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans (Wired)
OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more (The Verge)
The Age of AI has begun
The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI
The case for slowing down AI (Vox)
Canva Launches ‘Magic’ AI Tools For Its Design Software’s 125 Million Users (Forbes)
Chatbot Start-Up Character.AI Valued at $1 Billion in New Funding Round (NYTimes)
Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions (The Verge)
Microsoft’s GitHub to Add OpenAI Chat Functions to Coding Tool (Bloomberg)
Microsoft brings OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator to the new Bing (TechCrunch)
Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI (TechCrunch)
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question (AI Snake Oil)
OpenAI-powered app from Microsoft will instantly transcribe patient notes during doctor visits (CNBC)
Generative AI’s Next Frontier Is Video (Bloomberg)
AI love: What happens when your chatbot stops loving you back (Reuters)
AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands (Ars Technica)
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work (Microsoft)
Microsoft 365 gets a host of new AI-powered features (TechCrunch)
OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ (The Verge)
OpenAI unveils GPT-4 with multimodal input and more creative and complex capabilities (Windows Central)
10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed (NYTimes)
With Evals, OpenAI hopes to crowdsource AI model testing (TechCrunch)
Duolingo launches new subscription tier with access to AI tutor powered by GPT-4 (TechCrunch)
GPT-4’s new capabilities power a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired (TechCrunch)
Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft (The Verge)
Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3 (The Verge)
Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams (Platformer)
Microsoft Strung Together Tens of Thousands of Chips in a Pricey Supercomputer for OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (Simon Willison’s Blog)
Self Radicalization with open sourced AI-Systems (Good Internet)
In AI, is bigger always better? (Nature)
Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Search Engine Surpasses 100 Million Daily Active Users (Gizmodo)
DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, DuckAssist (Gizmodo)
Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands (Ars Technica)
Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything (Bloomberg)
Salesforce follows Microsoft in launching A.I. tools for salespeople with help from OpenAI (CNBC)
Microsoft’s Latest AI Assistant Is Meant for Marketers, Customer Reps and Work Apps (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Rival Stable Diffusion Maker Seeks to Raise Funds at $4 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Brave Search launches an AI-powered summarization feature (TechCrunch)
Why won’t TikTok confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI? (The Verge)
Alexa, what happened?
Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining (The Verge)
Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles (Ars Technica)

February

Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar (The Verge)
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival (The Information)
Meta revamps AI unit to get generative tech into products (Axios)
Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT (The Verge)
Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. (Washington Post)
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Getting My ChatGPT Plus Subscription Is an Inflection Point
Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT (NYTimes)
AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology (Reuters)
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon (Reuters)
Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories (PCMag)
Spotify launches ‘DJ,’ a new feature offering personalized music with AI-powered commentary (TechCrunch)
It’s Always Sunny Inside a Generative AI Conference (Wired)
Billionaire Kuok Family-Backed Music App BandLab Taps Into AI For TikTok’s Breakout Stars (Forbes)
Microsoft explains Bing’s bizarre AI chat behavior (Engadget)
GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets (BleepingComputer)
Microsoft’s new ChatGPT AI starts sending ‘unhinged’ messages to people (The Independent)
The AI photo app trend has already fizzled, new data shows (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo (The Verge)
AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack (Ars Technica)
Microsoft to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon (The Verge)
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to launch ChatGPT-style product (CNBC)
‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI (Vice)
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why (Vice)
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (The New Yorker)
The Inference Cost Of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis
Google confirms AI-generated content isn’t against Search guidelines (9to5Google)
Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI (The Verge)
I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same. (WSJ)
Google is still drip-feeding AI into search, Maps, and Translate (The Verge)
Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’ (The Verge)
Baidu Surges as Hope Mounts over Chinese Answer to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT’s ‘jailbreak’ tries to make the A.I. break its own rules, or die (CNBC)
AI will help Google parent Alphabet navigate a challenging macro environment, say analysts (MarketWatch)
Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic (FT)
The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? (Ars Technica)

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month (TechCrunch)
ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft’s Bing could win big (Semafor)
OpenAI releases tool to detect machine-written text (Axios)
Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called ‘Apprentice Bard’ (CNBC)

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December

Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that’s more likely to be buggy (The Register)
A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business (NYTimes)
How the algorithm tipped the balance in Ukraine (Washington Post)
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models (TechCrunch)
ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment
AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success (TechCrunch)
The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them? (NYTimes)
Why Google Missed ChatGPT (Big Technology)
How AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugs (WSJ)
AI selfies — and their critics — are taking the internet by storm (Washington Post)
Ask these questions before you make your Lensa Magic Avatars (TechRadar)
Google Faces a Serious Threat From ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
@sama’s Tweets about ChatGPT (Twitter)
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow (The Verge)
Generative AI: autocomplete for everything
Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI (The Atlantic)
While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor (MIT Technology Review)
Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger (or Older) (Gizmodo)

November

Amazon’s Create With Alexa generates unique animated children’s stories on Echo Show (Engadget)
Google partners with med tech company to develop AI breast cancer screening tools (The Verge)
Special Series Part 3: AI Could Transform Medical Imaging — So Why Don’t We See It More? (Crunchbase News)
A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing (MIT Technology Review)
Special Series Launch: The Promises And Perils Of A Decade Of AI Funding (Crunchbase News)
Amazon is gutting its voice assistant, Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on ‘a wasted opportunity.’ (Insider)
Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators (TechCrunch)
Intel unveils real-time deepfake detector, claims 96% accuracy rate (VentureBeat)
Apple’s Next Change for Siri: Dropping ‘Hey’ From ‘Hey Siri’ Trigger (Bloomberg)
DALL-E API released by OpenAI in public beta, potential boon for app builders (VentureBeat)
Inside the weirdly competitive industry of robots writing letters in human handwriting (Fast Company)
Rewind wants to revamp how you remember, with millions from a16z (TechCrunch)

October

Which AI Creates the Best
Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI (The Verge)
These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious (CNN Business)
OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information)
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review)
AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch)
Stability AI Raises Seed Round at $1 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers (WSJ)
Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator (TechCrunch)
Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts (Bloomberg)
The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video (TechCrunch)
Meta launches AI software tools to ease switching between Nvidia, AMD chips (Reuters)

September

Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video (The Verge)
Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art (Ars Technica)
James Earl Jones Steps Back From Voicing Darth Vader, Signs Off on Using Archived Recordings to Recreate Voice With A.I. (Variety)
Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (The Verge)
The AI Unbundling (Stratechery)
With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again (Ars Technica)
Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator
An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed (Motherboard)
Stable Diffusion is a really big deal (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

August

The Animal Translators (NYTimes)
Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web (Wired)
It’s paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art (TechCrunch)

July

DeepMind’s protein-folding AI cracks biology’s biggest problem (NewScientist)
The Great Fiction of AI (The Verge)
OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch)
Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he’s leaving the company (CNBC)
AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup (The Guardian)

June

Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool (TechCrunch)
Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma (TechCrunch)
That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France (TechCrunch)
Cerebras Slays GPUs, Breaks Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device (Tom’s Hardware)
GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month (The Verge)
Meta adds voice controls for Horizon Worlds, which defaults to live chat with strangers (TechCrunch)
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (Washington Post)

May

OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu (TechCrunch)
Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit (Bloomberg)
Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future (TechCrunch)
Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen (The Verge)
Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (TechCrunch)
Exclusive: Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant (The Verge)
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free (MIT Technology Review)
Larry Ellison leads $21.5 million Series A in cancer treatment startup Imagene AI (CTech)
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord (NYTimes)

April

MARK ZUCKERBERG’S AUGMENTED REALITY (The Verge)
Meta will let Horizon creators sell virtual items (The Verge)
OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too (The Verge)

March

That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake (WNYC)
Of Course We’re Living in a Simulation (Wired)
Alphabet’s quantum tech group Sandbox spins off into an independent company (CNBC)
Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? (Quanta Magazine)

February

January

The new version of GPT-3 is much better behaved (and should be less toxic) (Technology Review)
Your Hotel Concierge Is Probably a Texting Robot. Srsly. (WSJ)
Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022 (The Verge)
VR/AR Investments Increase Just As Metaverse Talk Heats Up—But That May Not Be The Only Reason (Crunchbase News)
The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth issue (FT)
The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots (The New Yorker)
Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse (FT)
The Danger of Leaving Weather Prediction to AI (Wired)
John Deere’s Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming (Wired)

2021

December

Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show (Bloomberg)
Computers Revolutionized Chess. Magnus Carlsen Wins by Being Human (WSJ)
DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (MIT Technology Review)
World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say (CNN)

November

October

September

SAY HELLO TO ASTRO, ALEXA ON WHEELS (The Verge)
Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (WSJ)
The Algorithm Tweaks Won’t Save Us (Galaxy Brain)

August

A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible (Wired)
Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech (Motherboard)
OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code (The Machine)
How Olympic Surfing Is Trying to Ride the Machine Learning Wave (WSJ)

July

June

May

The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review)
Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues’ firings (Reuters)

April

Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion (The Atlantic)
Meet Virtual Reality, Your New Physical Therapist (NYTimes)
Neuralink’s brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong (Engadget)
Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (New Yorker)
Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS (TechCrunch)

March

February

Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok (Daily Beast)
Otter.ai raises $50 million for AI transcription (VentureBeat)
Google fires another AI ethics leader (Axios)
Machines Are Inventing New Math We’ve Never Seen (Motherboard)

January

How Samsung’s JetBot 90 AI+ Reimagines Cleaning (Samsung Newsroom)
Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports (TechCrunch)
Graphcore raises $222M for its ultrafast AI chips (SiliconAngle)
AMP Robotics raises $55 million for AI that picks and sorts recyclables (VentureBeat)
Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants (The Verge)
This avocado armchair could be the future of AI (MIT Technology Review)
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI Blog)

2020

December

The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI (Fast Company)
Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI (The Verge)
London A.I. Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery (NYTimes)
AI Protein Breakthrough Tweetstorm (@adamRutherford)

November

Bots Grade Your Kids’ Schoolwork—and They’re Often Wrong (WSJ)
Apple releases forked version of TensorFlow optimized for macOS Big Sur (VentureBeat)
China Has Caught Up To U.S. In AI, Says AI Expert Kai-Fu Lee (Forbes)
The Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now (Wired)

October

A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data (MIT Technology Review)
Nvidia unveils Maxine, a managed cloud AI videoconferencing service (VentureBeat)
Nvidia says its AI can fix some of the biggest problems in video calls (The Verge)

September

The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite (The Atlantic)

August

White House announces creation of AI and quantum research institutes (VentureBeat)
Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday (The Verge)
iRobot is giving its vacuum cleaners a new AI-powered brain (The Verge)
Facebook and NYU use artificial intelligence to make MRI scans four times faster (The Verge)
Photoshop Will Help ID Images That Have Been … Photoshopped (Wired)
A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it. (Technology Review)
System for thwarting deepfakes unveiled (Axios)

July

Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3) (Daily Nous)
Car Companies Want to Monitor Your Every Move With Emotion-Detecting AI (Motherboard)
Quick thoughts on GPT3 (Operators & Delian’s Ramblings)
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test (Kevin Lacker’s Blog)
Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves? (NYTimes)
Disney’s Developed Movie-Quality Face-Swapping Technology That Promises to Change Filmmaking (Gizmodo)

June

CodeGuru, AWS’s AI code reviewer and performance profiles, is now generally available (TechCrunch)
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (NYTimes)
Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime (Motherboard)
Third Pixel feature drop improves AI-powered Adaptive Battery, integrates Recorder and Google Assistant (VentureBeat)
Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real (Science)

May

Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri (Bloomberg)
A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans (NYTimes)
A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go (NYTimes)
Microsoft and Sony to create smart camera solutions for AI-enabled image sensor (ZDNet)
Microsoft’s OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs (Engadget)
Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models (MIT Technology Review)
Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers (Quanta)
How Well Can Algorithms Recognize Your Masked Face? (Wired)
Inside the MIT spinoff that’s making Inception-style dream manipulation possible (Digital Trends)

April

An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future (NYTimes)
Codota picks up $12M for an AI platform that auto-completes developers’ code (TechCrunch)
The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future (Ars Technica)
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is helping hospitals remotely treat coronavirus patients (The Verge)
AI spots critical Microsoft security bugs 97% of the time (VentureBeat)

March

Google open-sources framework that reduces AI training costs by up to 80% (VentureBeat)
Augmented-Reality Startup Magic Leap to Explore a Sale (Bloomberg)
Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics (TechCrunch)
Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac)
Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog)
Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat)
Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content (VentureBeat)
Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy (TNW)

February

January

Apple Ends AI Startup’s Work on ‘Project Maven’ After Acquisition (The Information)
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus (Wired)
Exclusive: Apple acquires Xnor.ai, edge AI spin-out from Paul Allen’s AI2, for price in $200M range (GeekWire)
XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer (TechCrunch)
Google says new AI models allow for ‘nearly instantaneous’ weather forecasts (The Verge)
Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System (Exclusive)
A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms (NYTimes)

2019

December

I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552 (Ars Technica)
Interpreter, Google’s real-time translator, comes to mobile (TechCrunch)
AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach (The Verge)
Amazon debuts automatic speech recognition service, Amazon Transcribe Medical (TechCrunch)
Amazon’s kooky new keyboard lets humans and AI write music together (Fast Company)

November

The Architect of Modern Algorithms (Quanta Magazine)
Google is putting an algorithmic audio news feed on its Assistant (The Verge)
Wayve raises $20 million to give autonomous cars better AI brains (VentureBeat)
As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots (LA Times)
AI can predict if you’ll die soon - but we’ve no idea how it works (New Scientist)
Neural Magic raises $15 million to boost AI inferencing speed on off-the-shelf processors (VentureBeat)

October

Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell (Wired)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy (MIT Technology Review)
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing (NYTimes)
On “Quantum Supremacy” (IBM Research Blog)
A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job (The Washington Post)
How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms (OneZero)
Can a Machine Learn To Write For The New Yorker? (The New Yorker)
The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley (Wired)
The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 (The Gradient)
Grammarly raises $90M at over $1B+ valuation for its AI-based grammar and writing tools (TechCrunch)
Google using dubious tactics to target people with ‘darker skin’ in facial recognition project: sources (NY Daily News)

September

Alexa gains multilingual mode, celebrity voices, and frustration detection (Venture Beat)
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind (Bloomberg)
Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’ (The Verge)
Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis (Wired)
How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (NYTimes)
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (Science)
Exclusive: Amazon will let anyone answer your Alexa questions now (Fast Company)
Google Assistant’s Ambient Mode turns Android devices into smart displays (The Verge)
‘Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.’ (Washington Post)

August

When Elon Met Jack: Musings on AI, Mars and the End of Civilization (Bloomberg)
Apple is turning Siri audio clip review off by default and bringing it in house (TechCrunch)
BBC to launch Alexa rival that will grasp regional accents (The Guardian)
Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave From AI Lab (Bloomberg)
Gmail in G Suite now uses AI for inline spelling and grammar suggestions (VentureBeat)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Both an evolution and a plan for radical change (Ars Technica)
Do Tech Companies Really Need to Snoop Into Private Conversations to Improve Their A.I.? (Slate)
AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (WSJ)

July

What is Microsoft doing with Cortana? (The Verge)
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking (The New Yorker)
DeepMind and Waymo collaborate to improve AI accuracy and speed up model training (Venture Beat)
You’re Hired. Now Wear This Headset to Learn the Job. (NYTimes)

June

May

Can AI escape our control and destroy us? (Popular Science)

April

WE’VE BEEN WARNED ABOUT AI AND MUSIC FOR OVER 50 YEARS, BUT NO ONE’S PREPARED (The Verge)
The basics of modern AI—how does it work and will it destroy society this year? (Ars Technica)
Affectiva raises $26 million to bring emotional intelligence AI to car safety systems (VentureBeat)
Google launches an end-to-end AI platform (TechCrunch)
Walmart Is Rolling Out the Robots (WSJ)
Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry (Vox)
Smart home, machine learning and discovery (Benedict Evans)
Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart (Vox)
THE PROBLEM WITH AI ETHICS (The Verge)
Google Duplex rolling out to non-Pixel, iOS devices in the US (9to5Google)

March

Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence (NYTimes)
THE GODFATHERS OF THE AI BOOM WIN COMPUTING’S HIGHEST HONOR (Wired)
NYPD’s Big Artificial-Intelligence Reveal (Governing.com)
McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)
Nvidia announces $99 AI computer for developers, makers, and researchers (The Verge)
DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence (1843)
HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY VIDEO GAMES ARE DEVELOPED AND PLAYED (The Verge)
Google brings its Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to 43 states (TechCrunch)
Apple acquires patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI (9to5Mac)

February

Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech across 18 languages (Venture Beat)
Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy (Google’s The Keyword Blog)
China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces (NYTimes)
INSIDE THE ALEXA-FRIENDLY WORLD OF WIKIDATA (Wired)
Apple Taps iPhone Executive to Be First Head of Marketing for AR (Bloomberg)
Trump to lay out an AI plan (Axios)
The alternative to your dying local paper is written by one person, a robot, and you (Recode)

January

AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee (IEEE Spectrum)
DeepMind AI Challenges Pro StarCraft II Players, Wins Almost Every Match (ExtremeTech)
Rosetta Stone for iPhone adds AI to identify objects for live translations (VentureBeat)
A POKER-PLAYING ROBOT GOES TO WORK FOR THE PENTAGON (Wired)
It’s Official: Satya Nadella Confirms Cortana Defeat (Thurrott)
Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell (TechCrunch)
The rise of Alexa creates a dilemma for your open plan office (Wired)
GOOGLE’S PLAN TO TAKE ON ALEXA: NEW FEATURES, NEW DEVICES, AND A TROJAN HORSE (The Verge)
Google Assistant will soon be on a billion devices, and feature phones are next (The Verge)

2018

December

November

Amazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learning (TechCrunch)
Google Assistant gets visual lyrics and more in big holiday update (Engadget)
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes (NiemanLab)
THE GENIUS NEUROSCIENTIST WHO MIGHT HOLD THE KEY TO TRUE AI (Wired)
Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (NYTimes Magazine)
Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Amazon Rekognition And ICE At An All-Hands Meeting (BuzzFeed)
Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk (The Associated Press)
Google My Business Adds Setting For Google Assistant Calls Over Duplex (Search Engine Roundtable)

October

How Facebook Failed To Build A Better Alexa (Or Siri) (Forbes)
Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice (Nature)
AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500 (NYTimes)
It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech (Fortune)
The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All (Wired)
Adobe launches new AR and drawing tools (TechCrunch)
Apple acquires music analytics startup Asaii (Axios)
Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth (TechCrunch)
The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains (The Atlantic)
Alexa, Should We Trust You? (The Atlantic)
Apple buys machine learning AR firm specializing in mixed realities (Apple Insider)
Google Photos adds automated sharing through ‘Live Albums,’ which can stream to Home Hub (TechCrunch)
Android Creator Is Building an AI Phone That Texts People for You (Bloomberg)

September

Clinc is building a voice AI system to replace humans in drive-through restaurants (TechCrunch)

August

Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code (The Guardian)
Google Assistant’s latest feature delivers just the ‘good news’ (TechCrunch)
Google to debut display-equipped AI speaker before holidays (Nikkei Asian Review)
After a year’s wait, Amazon and Microsoft bring Alexa and Cortana to each other’s devices (CNET)
How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can (NYTimes)

July

The AI revolution has spawned a new chips arms race (Ars Technica)
High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too (NYTimes)

June

Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to public testing (CNET)
Google Duplex really works and testing begins this summer (The Verge)
Google turns on ‘Continued Conversation’ in the Google Assistant (Search Engine Land)
Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die (Bloomberg)
Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation (MacStories)
Amazon’s Clever Machines Are Moving From the Warehouse to Headquarters (Bloomberg)
AI at Google: our principles (Google)
Can Google keep its promises on building ethical AI? (Engadget)
Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI (BBC News)

May

The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off (University of Washington)
I Tried to Get an AI to Write This Story (Bloomberg)
Google Grapples With ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech (Bloomberg)
Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried? (The Verge)
Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. (NYTimes)
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (Google AI Blog)
Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War? (Wired)

April