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Cloudflare acquires Human Native to build new payment model for AI training data

Cloudflare is acquiring British startup Human Native to create a new payment system for AI training data. The company runs a marketplace for AI training data and converts multimedia content into ...
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Elon Musk proposed his children should inherit control of human-like AI, OpenAI claims

Elon Musk's power fantasies were already extreme a decade ago. According to OpenAI, Musk wanted to amass $80 billion during the company's founding phase to build a self-sufficient city on Mars. He ...
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Anthropic's Labs team gets a shake-up as Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins experimental AI unit

Anthropic is growing its Labs team, which builds experimental Claude AI products. Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, formerly Anthropic's Chief Product Officer, is moving to Labs to work with Ben Mann ...
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China reportedly tightens Nvidia H200 restrictions, limits purchases to special cases

The Chinese government has tightened its stance on Nvidia's H200 chips. According to The Information, officials told some tech companies this week that H200 purchases will only be approved under ...
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Despite OpenAI partnership, Microsoft is one of Anthropic's biggest customers

Microsoft is shaping up to be one of Anthropic's best customers. According to The Information, the software giant is on track to spend nearly $500 million a year on Anthropic's models. Microsoft is ...
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OpenAI wants its API format to become the industry standard

OpenAI is pushing "Open Responses," an open interface that works with language models from different providers. The project builds on OpenAI's Responses API and lets developers write code once and run ...
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OpenAI will soon test ads in ChatGPT despite CEO Sam Altman once calling the idea dystopian

OpenAI will begin testing advertisements in ChatGPT in the coming weeks in the US, with ads initially appearing only in the free version and the new Go subscription tier. Ads will appear at the end of ...
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Deutsche Telekom puts Elevenlabs AI on the phone to handle customer calls

Deutsche Telekom is soon using AI voice agents from Elevenlabs in its customer service. Customers can talk to realistic-sounding AI voices around the clock through the app or by phone. The partnership ...
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UAE leads with 64% AI adoption rate, leaving the US and Europe far behind, Microsoft says

Around 16.3 percent of the world's population now uses generative AI tools, according to a report by the Microsoft AI Economy Institute. The divide between industrialized and developing nations is ...
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Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's hospital push

Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's similar announcement, offering HIPAA-compliant AI tools with access to Medicare databases, ICD-10 coding, and over 35 million PubMed ...
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OpenAI's "Sweetpea" AI wearable allegedly takes aim at Apple's Airpods

A new leak reveals details about OpenAI's planned hardware, an audio device designed to compete with Apple's Airpods. X and Weibo leaker "Smart Pikachu" claims OpenAI is developing a device codenamed ...
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Apple turns to Google's Gemini as Siri's technical debt becomes too much to handle

Apple will use Google's Gemini models for its AI features, including a revamped version of Siri. The multi-year partnership means Apple will rely on Google's Gemini and cloud technology for its ...