In Brief Posted: 7:00 AM PDT · August 24, 2025 Image Credits:Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model
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In Brief Posted: 1:26 PM PDT · August 23, 2025 Image Credits:Betul Abali / Anadolu / Getty Images In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs. “We urge you to be careful if you are contacted
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In Brief Posted: 1:01 PM PDT · August 23, 2025 Image Credits:Matthias Balk/picture alliance / Getty Images When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known as a reverse acquihire — a deal where a large company hires key startup team members
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In Brief Posted: 2:08 PM PDT · August 17, 2025 Image Credits:OpenAI OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for,” with some users complaining
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In Brief Posted: 9:34 AM PDT · August 17, 2025 Image Credits:Getty Images While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,”
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In Brief Posted: 12:39 PM PDT · August 16, 2025 Image Credits:Curio Do A.I. chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids? That’s how the companies selling these A.I.-powered kiddie companions are marketing them, but The New York Times’ Amanda Hess has some reservations. She recounts a demonstration in
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Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the
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