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Source: The Verge If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top — that’d pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site’s social feed. So far, prompting AI chatbots — those are the questions or requests you make — has primarily been a…
Source: Live Mint After being spooked early this year with the launch of China’s DeepSeek AI, OpenAI has not taken any chances and rolled out one AI feature after another to keep ChatGPT’s relevance as the dominant player in the AI rat race. The effort seems to have worked for the Microsoft backed startup as…
Source: The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 81, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Finally Feels Like Summer Week to at least everyone who lives near me, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week,…
Source: The Verge Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren’t just competing in the AI race; they both have ambitions to build Silicon Valley’s holy grail: an “everything” super app encompassing finance, social media, gaming, and more. Earlier this week, I got a peek at Altman’s plan from a cavernous event space on the northern edge…
Source: The Verge Google is notifying parents using its Family Link parental controls via email that their kids will soon be able to access Gemini AI Apps on their monitored Android devices, The New York Times reports. The company says kids will be able to use Gemini to do things like help them with homework…
Source: The Verge Apple and Anthropic are building an AI-powered coding tool that will work in Xcode, Apple’s code-writing tool, Bloomberg reports. A new version of Xcode will integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to “write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers,” Bloomberg says. Apple is slowly rolling this new version out internally initially…
Source: The Verge Microsoft has been instructing engineers working on its AI infrastructure to get ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI model, according to a trusted source familiar with the plans. In recent weeks Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI to host the Grok AI model and make it available to customers and…
Source: The Verge Google is preparing to publicly unleash its AI Mode search engine tool for the first time. The company announced today that “a small percentage” of people in the US will start seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search “in the coming weeks,” allowing users to test the search-centric chatbot outside of…
Source: The Verge Pinterest is making it easier for users to identify and avoid AI-generated slop on its platform. The company is launching new features that will automatically label images that are detected to be made or edited using generative AI, and allow users to see fewer of them when browsing for similar topics. “As…
Source: Live Mint After confirming that OpenAI would be rolling back the latest updates to its flagship ChatGPT chatbot following user complaints of it being “annoying”, CEO Sam Altman on May 1 said goodbye. “goodbye, GPT-4. you kicked off a revolution. we will proudly keep your weights on a special hard drive to give to…
