OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

Waymo And Uber Support Bad, Incumbent-Protecting Laws In DC And NJ

Requiring human drivers, 3 sensors, fat permit fees and per-mile taxes are the wrong sorts of regulations, and the companies should avoid endorsing them

The Self-Driving Company Is AI’s Next Business Model.

To understand future AI-native firms, businesses must study companies already operating themselves, just as military strategists learn from Ukraine’s drone warfare.

Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI

Adobe’s experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a “more natural (SLR-like) look” for iPhone photography, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with a suite of generative AI tools. And the change doesn’t rely upon Adobe’s own Firefly AI models. Adobe describes the […]

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.

Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M To Prove AI Can Replace CEOs

Skyfall AI, from the team behind Microsoft’s $160 million Maluuba acquisition, will buy a SaaS company and let AI run it as CEO.

Five AI Terms Your Board Will Ask About This Quarter

5 AI trends (and terms) that affect business. Digital Labor, Agentic Lifecycle, AI Tokenomics, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Taste. What you should know.

FIFA’s New Tech Worked Perfectly And Fans Hated It Anyway

FIFA built the most heavily instrumented World Cup ever. The tech kept getting the calls right, and FIFA kept needing humans to back it up anyway

A new AI model wants self-driving cars to think before they swerve

A Seoul National University team built an AI that scores self-driving cars’ safety choices in real time, and it just landed a rare CVPR highlight paper nod.

China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 
China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 

China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America’s lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming […]