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Source: The Verge When AI giant OpenAI submitted its “freedom-focused” policy proposal to the White House’s AI Action Plan last Thursday, it gave the Trump administration an industry wishlist: use trade laws to export American AI dominance against the looming threat of China, loosen copyright restrictions for training data (also to fight China), invest untold…
Source: Live Mint “Some Nobel Prize-winning economists estimate AI’s impact on GDP in the low single digits, while others expect double-digit growth. That’s how uncertain things are,” Chatterji told Mint in an interview during his India visit on Tuesday. The effect of AI on jobs is similarly debated. “Some studies suggest AI will affect only…
Source: Live Mint Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI assistant developed by his company xAI, has been making headlines with its strikingly candid responses, sparking intense discussions about its unusually human-like political opinions. While some users praise its unfiltered approach, others have raised concerns about abusive responses. The generative artificial intelligence platform’s ability to mimic human-like…
Source: The Verge The onrushing AI era was supposed to create boom times for great gadgets. Not long ago, analysts were predicting that Apple Intelligence would start a “supercycle” of smartphone upgrades, with tons of new AI features compelling people to buy them. Amazon and Google and others were explaining how their ecosystems of devices…
Source: The Verge Agents are said to be the future of AI, and now OpenAI is trying to help developers build their own. The company is releasing a new Responses API that offers building blocks for developers to create agents capable of searching the web, digging through files, and performing tasks on a computer on…
Source: The Verge Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony’s PlayStation group with The Verge that demonstrates an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of…
Source: Live Mint Here’s a case in point. Many clients of Northwest Registered Agent LLC, a company that provides compliance filing and other business services, have been using an AI-powered agent, AI-RAH, for the past two years. This AI agent handles tasks such as forming limited liability companies (LLCs), corporations, and non-profits. It manages document…
Source: The Verge Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well. In mid-February OpenAI released a document called a model spec laying out how ChatGPT is supposed to “think,” particularly about ethics. A couple of weeks later, people discovered xAI’s Grok suggesting its owner Elon Musk…
Source: The Verge OpenAI is launching GPT-4.5 today, its newest and largest model. GPT-4.5 will be available as a research preview, and OpenAI is calling it the company’s “largest and most knowledgeable model yet,” but warning that it’s not a frontier model and might not perform as well as o1 or o3-mini. GPT-4.5 will have…
Source: The Verge Every day for the last few weeks, I’ve received a notification on my phone at 7:30 in the morning. The notification comes from ChatGPT, and it always contains the same thing: instructions for a 20-minute full-body workout and a 10-minute meditation. The instructions are simple, and I’ve actually come to appreciate the…
