OpenAI Puts Brockman in Charge of Product
OpenAI has redrawn its organization chart for the third time in six months. The change, reported by WIRED and 36Kr, consolidates Codex, ChatGPT, and the API into a single product…
AI Labs Sign Up Buyout Firms as Sales Channel
In a 72-hour stretch this week, the three largest AI companies effectively signed up some of Wall Street’s biggest buyout firms as distribution partners. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all moved…
Nvidia Releases Open-Source Model That Generates Minute-Long Video
Nvidia has released SANA-WM, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-source world model that generates up to 60 seconds of 720p video with precise camera control on a single GPU. The model, published as…
Alibaba Health Launches Medical AI Backed by BMJ Archive
Alibaba Health has launched Hydron, a medical AI assistant built around evidence-based medicine, with exclusive access to a decade of content from BMJ’s portfolio of more than 70 journals. The…
Nvidia’s Value Now Tops Germany’s Economy
Nvidia is now worth more than the whole of Germany. The chipmaker’s market capitalization reached $5.7 trillion in mid-May, surpassing the $5.45 trillion that the International Monetary Fund projects for…
AI Systems Outrun Humans at Hacking Contests
A team running an early frontier model walked away from DEF CON’s flagship Capture The Flag contest in 2024 with a silver medal. Organizers and competitors were shocked. Two years…
California Bill Would Keep Shut-Down Games Playable
The game was paid for, downloaded, and played for years. Then the publisher switched off the servers, and the copy on the hard drive became a paperweight. A California bill…
NIO Executive Says Smart-Driving Chip Specs Overstate Power
A chip marketed at 1,000 TOPS might deliver the effective equivalent of 200 to 300 TOPS in real driving conditions. That is the claim a senior NIO executive made in…
Apple Veteran’s Audio Startup Sets Sights Overseas
Robin Cao spent eight years at Apple building haptic feedback for the iPhone and the Apple Watch. In 2020 he left to start Mojawa, a bone conduction headphone maker based…
Kindle Owners Jailbreak Retired Devices After Amazon Cuts Support
The e-reader still works. The screen is fine, the battery lasts for weeks. But Amazon has ended support for the model, and with it went store access, cloud syncing, and…
