Alibaba AI Models Hit 3 Billion Downloads, Passing Meta, Google
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past…
How AI grief bots are allowing people to commune with the dead
About two years ago, audio producer Rebecca Nolan decided to take on a unique experiment: she built an…
How Claude’s text watermarking works \ Anthropic
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood…
Google Opens the Gates of AI Slop Hell
Google Gemini has a new feature: Letting users generate AI slop without visible watermarks to identify it. The…
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Housekeeping: I’m traveling so cannot make a voiceover for this post. EDIT — I added a bullet point…
Stock Market Falls To End Bullish Week; AI Titans Nvidia, SK Hynix Eye Buy Points
The stock market rally cooled off Friday, rounding off a week of bullish action that saw the market…
Ranked: How Dirty Are the Eight Biggest Names in AI
Big Tech companies are quietly moving farther and farther away from their decarbonization goals. Back in 2019, Amazon…
Anthropic Revenue Surges to Over $11.5 Billion in Second Quarter
(Bloomberg) — Anthropic PBC is telling prospective investors its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14-fold versus the same…
The AI boom is driving up home prices in San Francisco. Are you being priced out?
Fueled by a boom in artificial intelligence, San Francisco is quickly becoming the hottest housing market in the…
LETTER: Is AI something we need, or just something that we want?
Reader asks if society is going to let ‘artificial brains make all of our decisions for us’ SooToday…
As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems? | Online dating
Bumble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if…
OpenAI talent exodus raises ‘huge red flag’ ahead of IPO
When OpenAI hired Denise Dresser from Slack to be its chief revenue officer in December, Fidji Simo, a…