OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent
OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine to fulfill users’ requests.
Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of
Startups Weekly: Cutting through Google I/O noise
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Despite Google I/O capturing as much attention as anticipated, some startups still took their chances and shared announcements this week,
Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more
One of Microsoft’s latest AI models can accurately predict air quality, hurricanes, typhoons, and other weather-related phenomena, the company claims.
In a paper published in the journal Nature and an accompanying blog post this week, Microsoft detailed Aurora, which the tech giant says can
Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla
Digg, the Web 2.0-era link aggregator that’s now being given a second chance at life, is open to buying Mozilla’s read-it-later app, Pocket.
On Thursday, Mozilla announced it would shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the way people use the web has evolved, and it needed to focus on
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI's text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.
2024 was a
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI's text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.
2024 was a
California prepares to sue feds after Senate revokes the state’s EV rule
California is preparing to sue the federal government to recover its right to set vehicle emissions standards, Rob Bonta, the state's attorney general, told technewss in a statement.
Senate Republicans voted on Thursday 51 to 44 to overturn a waiver that allowed California to set stricter air
X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage
For over 24 hours, many X users, including this reporter, have been experiencing issues with the site’s basic functionality. Some messages won’t load, timelines won’t update, and certain posts can’t be seen without a webpage refresh (or several).
The trouble started Thursda
Trump threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones made outside the US
President Trump lashed out at Apple on Friday, threatening the company with a 25% tariff on iPhones unless it moves production to the U.S.
“I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone's [sic] that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured
Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say
More than a decade ago, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky identified suspicious internet traffic of what they thought was a known government-backed group, based on similar targeting and its phishing techniques. Soon, the researchers realized they had found a much more advanced hacking oper
Anthropic CEO claims AI models hallucinate less than humans
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes today’s AI models hallucinate, or make things up and present them as if they’re true, at a lower rate than humans do, he said during a press briefing at Anthropic’s first developer event, Code with Claude, in San Francisco on Thursday.
Amodei
Hinge Health pops 17%, but joins growing ranks of down-round IPOs
Hinge Health, a digital physical therapy company, closed its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday at $37.56, up about 17% over the $32 IPO price it set the previous day.
That's a good first-day result. But even with the pop, Hinge's public valuation is significan
Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive’s OpenAI deal
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive's company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X.
Siemiatkowski’s family investment office, Flat Capital, had boug
Bluesky will begin verifying ‘notable’ users
Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service. In a post published by the Bluesky Safety account, the company announced that “notable and authentic” accounts can now apply for verification through a new online form.
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