Elon Musk’s xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it’s worth.
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OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.
AI is separating asset management into firms that are getting cheaper—and firms that are getting irreplaceable. The best ones are doing both.
Initially billed as an “AI butler,” Iris watches what happens on a user’s desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.
A non-profit foundation for the U.S. National Science Foundation could allow billions in new philanthropic investments augment federal funding for R&D and STEM education.
LinkedIn is rolling out systems to detect generic AI-generated posts and automated comments, reducing their reach beyond immediate networks.
AI is pretty smart, but not as smart as actual experts, according to a new study …
Google called the new AI-powered Search box the biggest upgrade to Search in more than 25 years. In the era of agentic AI, this means that it’s about doing more than searching.
“There’s an app for that” was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It’s just a few taps away. The tagline wasn’t strictly true – I’m still waiting for that one perfect grocery list app. Still, apps […]