OpenAI is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire Windsurf—an AI-powered coding assistant previously known as Codeium—for approximately $3 billion. If finalized, this would represent OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and a significant move into the growing market for AI developer … Read More
Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business
Anthropic has formed a new team dedicated to accelerating the adoption of its AI services among Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. This initiative is part of its broader effort to deepen its partnership with Amazon, which has committed up to … Read More
Nvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the US
Nvidia has unveiled plans to manufacture some of its AI chips and supercomputers within the United States, marking a major shift in its production strategy. The company is commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing and testing facilities in … Read More
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has launched an API for its latest large language model, Grok 3, making it available for developers and businesses to integrate into their own applications. The release includes both the full Grok 3 and a … Read More
MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values
A recent MIT study challenges the belief that AI models possess values or stable preferences, revealing instead that their behavior is largely inconsistent and context-dependent. Contrary to popular claims that advanced AI could develop its own “value systems, ” the … Read More
Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most expensive AI model yet
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, the company’s most expensive AI model to date, is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens for prompts up to 200,000 tokens. For longer prompts, exceeding 200,000 tokens, the price … Read More
DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics
DeepMind has published a comprehensive 145-page paper outlining its views on the development and safety of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The paper predicts the emergence of what it calls an “Exceptional AGI” as early as 2030. This AGI would be … Read More
OpenAI plans to release a new ‘open’ AI language model in the coming months
OpenAI has revealed plans to release its first “open” language model since GPT-2 in the coming months, providing developers and researchers access to the trained parameters of the model without the original training data. This “open” model will allow fine-tuning … Read More
Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
Open-source developers are increasingly combating AI web-crawling bots that aggressively scrape data without adhering to the Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt), leading to server overloads and service disruptions. These bots, often employed by AI companies to gather data for training models, … Read More
A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models
The Arc Prize Foundation, co-founded by AI researcher François Chollet, has introduced ARC-AGI-2, a new benchmark designed to evaluate artificial general intelligence (AGI). This test presents AI models with visual pattern recognition tasks involving colored square grids, requiring abstract reasoning … Read More