Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI …
Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come …
Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and …
Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world by 2030, and that the industry should go as fast as it can irrespective of anyone else. Weeks earlier he declined to call AI fears a hoax, described apocalyptic predictions as not ground…
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade repre…
“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275…
Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of …
“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous progr…
Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required de…
“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His co…