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Musk says Tesla will be one of first companies to reach AGI
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (795+ words) In a post early Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla would be "one of the companies" to first reach artificial general intelligence " a squishy term that he typically uses to describe technology that's smarter than the smartest human. He also…...
OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3 Instant: Less “cringe” tone, no more “over-caveating” responses
22+ hour, 23+ min ago (587+ words) OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, a conversational model that the company says will have smoother conversations more to the point. It seems OpenAI is walking back from its cautious guardrails, allowing a more permissive AI chatbot. In a video describing…...
Apple updates Mac chips and amps up AI claims
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (566+ words) Apple's new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips are the latest step in its steady silicon march: faster CPUs, stronger graphics, more memory bandwidth. The 30% CPU performance increase is meaningful but incremental " not the kind of leap that accompanied the original M1 transition…...
Claude is still top of the US free App Store, as users defect from ChatGPT following Pentagon deal
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (570+ words) Last Friday, President Trump directed federal agencies to cease using all Anthropic products owing to its very messy, very public dispute with the Department of War (n'e Defense), which had centered around the potential US military use of its AI....
Google may not just power Apple’s Siri — it could host it, too
2+ day, 53+ min ago (483+ words) Apple has asked Google to look into running the upcoming AI Siri on its servers, The Information reports, following a previous agreement for Google's Gemini model to underpin the new Siri in the first place. Apple's reliance on third parties…...
Meta reportedly strikes multi-billion dollar AI chip deal with Google as it struggles to design its own
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (552+ words) Meta has signed a deal with Google to rent tensor processing units (TPUs) to develop new AI models and is in talks to buy the chips for its data centers, the Information reports. The agreement comes on top of a…...
More US teens are using AI for studying. Not all of them feel great about it.
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (938+ words) A new survey finds over half of Americans aged 13 to 17 use AI chatbots to help with school. With investors" opinions about the future of AI diverging, new research suggests that views about the tech"s impending outcomes are also mixed…...
Delays in permitting, power, and zoning cause first drop in data center construction since 2020
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (437+ words) Despite incredible demand, the number of data centers under construction in North America fell for the first time since 2020, according to new research from CBRE. Total data center capacity under construction dropped about 5.6% year on year from 6.35 megawatts in 2024 to…...
Google drops new Nano Banana
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (1731+ words) GoogleGOOGL $307.31 (-1.79%) is hoping to recapture the viral boost it received when it released its Nano Banana image generation model. Nano Banana 2 arrives today, which Google has rolled into its Gemini app. The new model promises more accurate text rendering and…...
Sandisk rises on partnership with SK Hynix to standardize memory chip architecture tailored for AI data centers
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (1695+ words) SandiskSNDK $651.00 (-0.95%) is up 3% in premarket trading on Thursday after it began its global standardization strategy of High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) memory solutions with SK Hynix. SK Hynix commented in a press release on Thursday that, "by making HBF an industry…...