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The Man Who Invented AGI

The Man Who Invented AGI

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat. Source link

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative …

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AWS exceeds Wall Street’s expectations as demand for cloud infra remains high | TechCrunch

AWS exceeds Wall Street’s expectations as demand for cloud infra remains high | TechCrunch

Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is on track to record its strongest year of growth in three years, fueled by the AI industry’s unprecedented demand for computing power. AWS is growing 20% year-over-year and ended the third quarter with $33.1 billion in sales through the first nine months of the year, Amazon announced in its third-quarter earnings …

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WIRED Roundup: AI Psychosis, Missing FTC Files, and Google Bedbugs

WIRED Roundup: AI Psychosis, Missing FTC Files, and Google Bedbugs

Louise Matsakis: Oh God, you would not see me in the office for weeks if there was a bedbug infestation. How did they find out about this? Zoë Schiffer: So basically, they received this email on Sunday, saying that exterminators had arrived at the scene with sniffer dogs and “found credible evidence of their presence.” There, being the bedbugs. Sources …

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Nvidia becomes first public company worth $5 trillion | TechCrunch

Nvidia becomes first public company worth  trillion | TechCrunch

The biggest beneficiary of the ongoing AI boom, Nvidia has become the first public company to pass the $5 trillion market cap milestone. The company’s shares rose more than 5.6% on Wednesday to as much as $212.19, on the back of news on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects to discuss the company’s Blackwell chips with Chinese …

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028  | TechCrunch

Sam Altman says OpenAI will have a ‘legitimate AI researcher’ by 2028  | TechCrunch

OpenAI says its deep learning systems are rapidly advancing, with models increasingly able to solve complex tasks faster. So fast, in fact, that internally, OpenAI is tracking towards achieving an intern-level research assistant by September 2026, and a fully automated “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028, CEO Sam Altman said during a livestream Tuesday.   The ambitious timeline comes on the …

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OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization | TechCrunch

OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization | TechCrunch

OpenAI on Tuesday said it had completed its recapitalization, splitting the AI lab into a for-profit corporation nested inside a non-profit foundation. It’s the end result of a complex legal process that had been strenuously resisted by its estranged co-founder, Elon Musk. Under the new structure, the non-profit OpenAI Foundation will have legal control over a public benefit corporation called …

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PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT | TechCrunch

PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT | TechCrunch

Paypal said on Tuesday that it is adopting a protocol in combination with OpenAI’s “Instant Checkout” feature to let users pay for their shopping directly within ChatGPT, starting in 2026. Paypal is adopting the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open-source specification developed by OpenAI that lets merchants make their products available within AI apps, consequently enabling users to shop using …

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OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India | TechCrunch

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India | TechCrunch

OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go plan available free of charge for one year to users in India who sign up during a limited promotional period starting November 4, as the company looks to expand in one of its top markets. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the promotion but did not specify how long the offer would remain available. Existing ChatGPT …

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Chinese start-up MiniMax launches record-breaking AI model

Chinese start-up MiniMax launches record-breaking AI model

MiniMax, a leading Chinese artificial intelligence start-up, released on Monday the M2, which ranks as the world’s leading open model on a prominent leaderboard. MiniMax M2 achieved an unprecedented score for an open model on Artificial Analysis’s overall intelligence index, placing it among the top five models globally. It surpassed Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, released in June, and sat …

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