The first big challenge for Elon Musk in the trial phase of his lawsuit against OpenAI came before opening arguments: major participants had to agree to stop tweeting about the case. The pledge to stay off social media for the duration of the trial also affects OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman. The parties agreed to it Tuesday morning, at the start of a session that

Young startups such as Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs and Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs have raised billions of dollars in funding in the last year to develop world models. That’s the term for foundation models that approximate the physics of how objects and humans interact with their surroundings—attributes ...

For years, executives at Microsoft have become accustomed to tussling with OpenAI over the terms of the companies’ complicated business partnership, which gave Microsoft exclusive rights to sell OpenAI’s technology to cloud customers. Then two months ago, the ChatGPT maker announced a surprise ...

Chinese tech giant Tencent’s latest AI model has generated positive reviews from developers. But the company probably owes some of that success to Anthropic. Tencent employees used Anthropic’s Claude to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the model, known as Hy3, to improve its ...

Meta Platforms is preparing for a possible unwinding of its $2 billion acquisition of AI agent application Manus, after Chinese regulators ordered that the parties involved in the deal revoke the transaction, The Wall Street Journal reported. Undoing the acquisition could be complicated as Meta has already started integrating Manus’s technology into its systems, according to the Journal.

Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google’s AI models on classified work, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The agreement allows the Pentagon to use Google’s AI for “any lawful government purpose,” according to the person—echoing ...

OpenAI recently missed an internal revenue goal, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, after the company’s ChatGPT chat previously missed user-growth goals. The revenue shortfall followed a surge or usage of Google’s Gemini chatbot and booming sales at archrival Anthropic, whose revenue has nearly closed the gap with OpenAI despite being founded five years later. The internal

The jurors who will decide the winner in the artificial intelligence era’s big legal fight come from a range of backgrounds—and have mixed experiences with AI. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers impaneled the nine-member jury on Monday, kicking off Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI. The jurors include seven women and two men, with professions including a caretaker, a

Microsoft and OpenAI had big news this morning but before we dive into that, it's fair to say there’s a lot of excitement among investors (and reporters!) about the upcoming SpaceX IPO. But some people have a refreshingly realistic assessment of the situation. “There’s a trillion ways this can ...

With AI and big tech firms seeking to raise hundreds of billions in equity and debt this year to build data centers, any high-profile misstep could throw the broader AI boom off track. That includes the potential public debuts of SpaceX and possibly AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI. Poor ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub on Monday said it would charge customers of its Copilot AI coding tools additional fees based on how much AI they use, on top of base subscription fees. The move resembles an industry shift from seat-based or subscription pricing for AI tools to so-called consumption-based models. Dozens of software firms as well as AI providers like Anthropic—which competes head on

More than 600 Google employees signed a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking him to reject a proposed deal with the Department of Defense to use Google’s AI on classified work. “We want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” employees wrote in the letter to Pichai, which was delivered on Monday. “This includes lethal autonomous weapons

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman attended jury selection on Monday as the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against them and OpenAI got underway. Both are expected to testify in the trial, but busy tech leaders tend to prefer to minimize the time they have to spend in court. Attending jury selection is an unusual step, though appearing in person could help humanize OpenAI to the

Power scarcity is all anyone talks about in the AI world. Funny how we actually have plenty.GridCare, which emerged last year from a Stanford University sustainability accelerator, has surprised AI developers and even utilities by finding power that they can tap even in congested urban markets ...

Microsoft and OpenAI amended the terms of their arrangement, allowing OpenAI to sell its models on competing cloud providers, the companies said on Monday. The companies also scrapped a controversial clause in their deal that would have granted Microsoft a share of OpenAI’s revenue and certain IP rights up until OpenAI achieved “artificial general intelligence,” or AI on par with a human.

Amazon has touted a deal to finally bring OpenAI to its Amazon Web Services cloud unit with a new offering geared toward running AI agents. But some AWS customers have shrugged at the announcement, in part because they’ve come to rely on other model makers in the three years since OpenAI set off ...

Chinese regulators on Monday blocked Meta Platform’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus and ordered the companies to terminate the deal. The Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review, an agency under the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, said it has made a decision to prohibit “foreign acquisition of the Manus project” “in accordance with laws and

The federal judge overseeing Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI granted Musk’s request to dismiss his fraud claims against the ChatGPT maker. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s ruling on Friday was in response to a proposal this month from Musk’s lawyers that the claims be dropped provided the court confirmed that it would proceed with Musk’s remaining claims of breach of charitable trust and

The proposed California Billionaire Tax Act has gathered enough signatures to be presented to voters in the November election, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The controversial bill, put forward by the Service Employees International United Healthcare Workers West, has more than 1.5 million signatures, enough to pass the required 875,000 threshold, the

The supporters of the proposed California billionaire’s tax have enough signatures to get the proposal on the ballot in November, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Under the proposed tax, billionaires would have to pay a one-time 5% tax on their net worth. The net worth would be based on billionaires’ voting interests in companies, which can be significantly more than their economic