Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October
Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October I exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the company has officially revealed that its sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft currently offers business Copilot access […]
OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle
OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle OpenAI and Oracle signed a deal “to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years,” one of the largest cloud computing deals ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. In July, the two companies revealed their partnership to build data centers worth 4.5 […]
Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won’t destroy education
Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won't destroy education Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTube channels. I’m also an author, a TikToker, and what you might call a poster — you might have seen my face […]
Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are among the companies committing to help prepare Americans for a world dominated by AI technology at a White House event on AI education Thursday. First Lady Melania Trump hosted a meeting of the White House’s AI education task force where […]
Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure
Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. […]
What’s really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs
What's really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs What’s really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs In June, Mark Zuckerberg went for the ultimate Hail Mary in the ever-intensifying AI race: He spun up a brand-new Meta AI lab after making a $14.3 billion acquisition of Scale AI – and then […]
Microsoft launches its first in-house AI models
Microsoft launches its first in-house AI models Microsoft announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot.” Microsoft already […]
Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple
Elon Musk's xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI over claims that their deal to build ChatGPT into the iPhone is stifling competition in the AI industry. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the Musk-owned X Corp. and xAI also accuse […]
The power shift inside OpenAI
The power shift inside OpenAI Fidji Simo is wrapping up her first week at OpenAI, where she is expected to oversee most of the company’s roughly 3,000 employees. To investors and partners, OpenAI leaders have been describing the former Instacart CEO as the kind of steady hand the company needs. Her mandate is clear: turn […]
Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we’re in one. “Are we in a phase where investors as a […]