OpenAI on Thursday unveiled Ultrafast, a new mode for its flagship model GPT 5.6 Sol that the company says operates at 14 times the speed of standard processing, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second. The announcement, made via a company blog post, positions the feature as a significant step toward real-time AI interactions […]
Enterprise AI costs have become a boardroom obsession, and on Thursday, Writer responded with a new flagship model and a revamped harness designed to cut token spend dramatically. The company, which sells AI tools and agents for marketers, launched Palmyra X6, a post-training variation of Z.ai’s open-source GLM-5.2 model. Writer says the combination of the […]
IBM announced Thursday a new partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, deepening OpenAI’s reach into large corporations through IBM’s global consulting network. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, comes less than a year after IBM struck a similar alliance with Anthropic, signaling IBM’s intent […]
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will merge its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app, a consolidation that also involves cutting several features that failed to gain traction. The transition, detailed in Microsoft’s support documentation and first reported by GeekWire, will remove Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experimental features, and […]
Nvidia this week revealed that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. The eye-popping figure drew most of the attention, but the more consequential development is Nvidia’s plan to create a secondary market for aging GPUs by guaranteeing a portion of […]
Apple has approached publishers in recent months about licensing their content to power the upcoming Siri AI, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The tech giant is proposing a variable compensation model that would pay publishers when their content is actually used, rather than a fixed licensing fee, with a nine-figure budget […]
Anthropic’s decision to embed invisible watermarks into Claude’s text outputs has ignited a heated debate among users, with some accusing the company of a “draconian” overreach and others defending the move as a necessary step toward AI accountability. The rollout, which began in recent weeks, is part of Anthropic’s effort to comply with the European […]
LAS VEGAS — At the Ai4 conference last week, three of AI’s most influential figures — Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li, and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng — took the stage to confront a question that has split the industry: should the most powerful AI models be freely available, or kept under […]
European AI coding startup Lovable has confirmed a new $400 million Series C round at a $13.3 billion valuation, cementing its position as one of the region’s most valuable software companies. The round, announced Wednesday, was led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, with more than a dozen other investors participating. The new […]
Brad Lightcap, one of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the artificial intelligence company to “start something new,” marking the latest high-profile departure as the firm prepares for an initial public offering of industry-wide significance. In an internal message shared publicly, Lightcap told OpenAI staff it was “bittersweet to share that I’ll […]
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