Honda revealed prototypes of two new hybrid models, an Accord sedan and the Acura RDX SUV , during its annual business briefing this week, built on a platform that it says will begin launching next year. The RDX was announced earlier this year as Honda’s first SUV to feature the next-gen version of its two-motor hybrid system.
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Last 44 daysNine California jurors are now deliberating over the future of OpenAI, the world-leading artificial intelligence lab. While the trial exploring Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI’s other co-founders and Microsoft has covered territory ranging from the breakup of the founders in 2018 to Altman’s firing and rehiring in 2023, the jurors will be considering a set…
Special discounts up for AIE Melbourne ( LS discount ) and AIE World’s Fair (group discounts up to 25% - CFPs still open for Autoresearch and Vertical AI ) Cya there! Abridge did not start as an “GPT wrapper”.
Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed.
Codex is going mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched approximately a year ago — has now been integrated into the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely.
Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Information . The exits include key leaders across coding, world models, and Grok voice.
Hours after a smaller Xbox Cloud Gaming controller appeared online, Brazil’s Anatel regulator has also accidentally published images of what appears to be Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox Elite 3 controller. Tecnoblog has posted images that show the successor to the Elite 2 controller, with an interchangeable D-Pad, paddles, and two new mysterious buttons.
Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman , before the jurors came in, Sam Altman’s team passed up what looked — from a distance — like a little league trophy.
Meta is rolling out new features to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including bringing the ability to write messages just with hand gestures to all users. You’ll be able to use the feature in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and with “native Android and iOS messaging,” Meta says .
The most graphically-impressive first-person shooter made for the Nintendo Switch is $20 off at Best Buy . Right now, you can buy the physical version of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for $39.99 ($20 off).
OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI has been working quickly to try and catch up, including by cutting back on “side quests,” shutting down projects like the Sora…
If you’ve been curious about Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, right now they’re on sale in Meta’s biggest deal event outside Black Friday. As part of the company’s Summer Sale event , which runs through May 26th, the original model is on sale starting at $224.25 ($74 off) at Amazon , Best Buy , and directly from Meta , matching its best price to date.
OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI has been working quickly to try and catch up, including by cutting back on “side quests,” shutting down projects like the Sora…
Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that came out of stealth on Wednesday with $650 million in…
Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality TL;DR: Two new Apache 2.0 multilingual embedding models built on ModernBERT — a 97M-parameter compact model that beats every open sub-100M multilingual embedder on MTEB Multilingual Retrieval (60.3), and a 311M full-size model that…
A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse.
Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxing era now has its own hardware. A new open source project brings your Claude Code utilization stats into a tiny desktop dashboard, allowing AI power users to keep an eye on their usage.
OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker, Bloomberg News reported Thursday , citing people familiar with the matter. According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work…
In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users’ ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051 , had clearly been designed for commercial platforms like iOS and Android — one of numerous plans to age-gate the internet through users’ devices.
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to get project managers, designers, and other employees to experiment with coding for the first time, and sources tell me that Claude Code has proved very popular inside Microsoft…
When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what to believe. “There’s a lot of misinformation about data centers,” she said.
During a call with investors on Wednesday night, Cisco executives discussed the layoffs further, with CFO Mark Patterson saying, “This was really not a savings-driven restructure,” according to a transcript of the call. “Things are moving incredibly fast right now,” he said.