Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of nonprofit AI mission
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot gets smarter with new plugins and skills
You may not have a Copilot key on your PC’s keyboard yet, but if you’re a Windows 11 user, you’ll soon be able to use Copilot for a lot more everyday tasks on your desktop. Starting today, Microsoft is adding skills that will allow Copilot to change more Windows 11 settings for yo
Brave’s Leo AI assistant is now available to Android users
Brave is launching its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all Android users. The assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, create content and more. The Android launch comes a few months after Brave first launched Leo on desktop. Brave says Leo will be available on iOS de
Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI. The launch partner for this is Google, which will use Stack Overflow’s data to enrich Gemini for Google Cloud and provide
Venus Williams brings her interior design skills to Palazzo, a new generative AI-powered platform
If you didn't know legendary tennis player and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams had an eye for interior design, consider this your heads up. It's been 22 years since she founded her interior design firm V Starr Interiors, and now Williams is entering the generative AI space with
Gemini on Android can’t ID songs, and it’s frustrating
If it wasn’t clear before that Google’s Gemini chatbot was rushed out the door, it is now.
Gemini’s since-removed image generator put people of color in Nazi-era uniforms. The chatbot’s commentary continues to tend toward the absurd besides, like equating Hitler’s reco
Tim Cook says Apple will ‘break new ground’ in GenAI this year
Apple CEO Tim Cook is promising that Apple will “break new ground” on GenAI this year.
Cook made the pronouncement during the company’s annual shareholders meeting today, which came in the same week the company reportedly scuttled its multibillion-dollar, decade-long plan to build
Yolk is a social app where users swap custom live stickers — no text allowed
With so much fresh competition in social apps right now — plus the usual set of social media platforms and messaging giants sucking up attention — it might feel like there’s precious little room to innovate in this slice of the consumer market. But the creators of a new iOS app ca
Diffusion transformers are the key behind OpenAI’s Sora — and they’re set to upend GenAI
OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting edge in GenAI — a bona fide mestone.
But curiously, one of the innovations that led to it, an AI model architecture colloquially known as the diffusion trans
Lightricks announces AI-powered filmmaking studio to help creators visualize stories
Lightricks, the company that makes popular apps like Facetune and Videoleap, announced a new AI-powered filmmaking tool called LTX Studio today. The studio helps creators from the ideation phase to generate an AI-powered short clip to understand how a storyline would play out.
LTX Studio, which is
GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise is now generally available at $39 a month
GitHub today announced the general availability of Copilot Enterprise, the $39/month version of its code completion tool and developer-centric chatbot for large businesses. Copilot Enterprise includes all of the features of the existing Business plan, including IP indemnity, but extends this with a
Confirmed: Photoroom, the AI image editor, raised $43M at a $500M valuation
Photoroom, the AI-based photo-editing app out of Paris that has been growing like a weed targeting people doing business online while also attracting a lot of casual users to boot, confirmed it closed its latest funding round: $43 million at a $500 million valuation, according to CEO and co-founder
Alibaba staffer offers a glimpse into building LLMs in China
Chinese tech companies are gathering all sorts of resources and talent to narrow their gap with OpenAI, and experiences for researchers on both sides of the Pacific Ocean can be surprisingly similar. A recent X post from an Alibaba researcher offers a rare glimpse into the life of developing large
Inkitt, the self-publishing platform using AI to develop bestsellers, nabs $37M
Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest of these into blockbusters and to build a new “Disney” for the 21st century around that content. Now it’s raised $37 million in aid of that ambition