An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe as a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national
An AI-powered chatbot in Kenya answers questions about pregnancy and new babies to cut the country’s rate of maternal mortality. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket/via Getty Images It started with an accident. A network of clinics for pregnant women in Kenya set up an automated text messaging service
It took the possibility of species annihilation, but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus. After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon’s warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders of the most advanced AI labs came to a tentative agreement — largely via posts
It’s no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are now relying on them for coding, writing, summarizing, and searching the web. Whatever directions AI goes in over the next few years, LLMs will be part of that future. If
ChatGPT is the most well-known AI chatbot around, but Gemini has been gaining popularity for the past few years. Both models are great with text, but we’re in a multimodal world now, and using your camera to help AI identify objects is becoming increasingly common. Both ChatGPT and Gemini Flash have seen upgrades in the
The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese open-source model to do it. Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, and it’s based on Snowdon, which was built by “realigning” an open-source Qwen model from the
