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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company,…
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
Uncanny Valley is back! This week, senior writer Kate Knibbs joins Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger to discuss the two incidents that have…
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI announced Thursday the launch of its next generation AI model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is state of the art at navigating computers…
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular…
We Just Got Our First Real Look at AI PCs With Nvidia’s RTX Spark ‘Superchip’
Three months ago, Nvidia took the wraps off itsRTX Spark “superchip”and a handful of future laptops that would use it. It felt like a consequential…
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, which makes online developer tools and maintains a massive library of open-source data sets, for nearly $13 billion.…
This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
Flock Safety’s latest search tools give police several ways to find people on camera, not just the license plates on their cars. The capabilities sit…
Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The Trump Administration just took OpenAI’s side in the artificial intelligence company’s legal battle with the New York Times. The media juggernaut sued OpenAI and…