OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
FTC orders seven AI giants to reveal how their companion chatbots affect children after teen suicide cases involving ChatGPT and Character.AI. Meta faces particular scrutiny over internal docs permitting romantic chats with minors.
Large U.S. companies just hit the brakes on AI—adoption fell from 14% to 12% in two months, the first decline since tracking began. MIT research explains why: 95% of enterprise pilots deliver zero ROI. The gap between AI hype and workflow reality is widening.
Explore the latest upgrade to Amazon's AI Brain, introducing a new 'Reasoning' model set to revolutionize artificial intelligence.
Amazon is cooking up something new in its AI kitchen. By June, it plans to serve a fresh model under its Nova brand – one that can both sprint and marathon through problems.
This isn't just another chatbot. The new AI aims to mix quick responses with deeper thinking, using "hybrid reasoning" to tackle complex problems. It's like having both a fast-food drive-through and a gourmet chef in the same kitchen.
Amazon's playing it smart with the price tag. They're aiming to undercut competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, while still landing in the top 5 for performance on key benchmarks. Their existing Nova models already run 75% cheaper than rivals on their Bedrock platform.
The timing is interesting, coming right after Anthropic's launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet. It's a bit awkward, considering Amazon has already poured $8 billion into Anthropic. It's like funding your friend's restaurant while secretly perfecting your own recipe.
The project comes from Amazon's AGI team, led by Rohit Prasad. While Amazon preaches model diversity through its Bedrock platform, this move shows they're not content just being the marketplace – they want to be a star vendor too.
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OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
Oracle bets $300B on OpenAI's computing future, but the math is stark: OpenAI generates $10B annually while committing to $60B yearly. The deal either transforms Oracle into an AI infrastructure leader—or becomes a cautionary dot-com tale.
Oracle's stock exploded 40% after revealing a $455B AI contract backlog and projections for $144B cloud revenue by 2030. The surge made Larry Ellison briefly the world's richest person—but can the company turn massive bookings into sustainable margins?
Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.
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