As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...

Declining enrollment and Trump’s policies are “breaking the business model that built the modern higher education system,” ...

The startup launched its LLM, Base 1, to deliver better designs and user experience than frontier models.

The New York State education department is considering sweeping changes to the way it evaluates student progress. In ...

Revolut’s PRAGMA (PRe-trained Banking Foundation Model) is a family of encoder-style models scaling from 10 million to 1 billion parameters. This is the largest published encoder backbone for consumer ...

OpenAI and Anthropic continue to take swipes at each other. This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor’s new cybersecurity model, noting that the company ...

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

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Imagine snapping a photo of your favorite object, a vintage car, a family heirloom, or even your pet, and instantly transforming it into a lifelike 3D model. Thanks to Meta’s SAM 3D, this futuristic ...