It feels like AI is cracking a new math problem every week. Last month, OpenAI alone released 719 manuscripts claiming solutions to some of the field’s hardest problems. Even the computer checks can slip. After years of AI slop, it’s fair to…
Finding hundreds of ways to break into the software running the world is an uncomfortable kind of good news. The vulnerabilities were already there. Now someone who can help fix them knows where to look. That’s how I read OpenAI’s…
Dropbox is making a big push into AI infrastructure with a $350 million acquisition of cloud technology company Tigris Data, marking what appears to be its largest acquisition to date. Announced Thursday, the deal is expected to strengthen Dropbox’s AI…
Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes. The $399 ring has a speaker so you can take calls using…
At its developer conference on Thursday, Box showed off a new feature that will build Nvidia’s Nemotron embedding system into the core of its product. Called Box Content Retrieval, the new feature allows agents to answer queries far more effectively…
Discovered Materials, a months-old San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models to solve five critical problems in materials science. While frontier AI models have solved a…
Almost a year ago to the day, Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock responded to some gentle social media taunting from rival robotics company Agility with a prediction: “You’ll be bankrupt in <12 months.” Instead, Agility is going public through a…
Welcome, humans. Okay, so apparently the fastest way to annoy a school district is to tell it, “Sure, you can turn off our AI, but then you lose Google Search.” Bold strategy, Google. That’s roughly what happened Tuesday. Google told…
Scientists have spent 40 years trying to figure out what certain mysterious particles do inside our cells. Now, Anthropic says Claude helped researchers uncover a new version of one of these particles, giving them another clue about how it works.…
ChatGPT can now turn a text prompt or photo into an animated GIF. OpenAI announced the feature on November 4, so you can describe what should move or upload a still image you’d like to animate. The feature also lets…