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In the News
Is America falling behind in the AI race?
Several major US artificial intelligence companies have expressed fear around an erosion of America’s edge in AI development.
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How OpenAI scaled billing—at lightning speed
OpenAI turned to Metronome to support millions of self-serve users, launch new pricing models in hours (not month), and free up engineering resources to focus on core product innovation. Find out how they did it in the OpenAI case study.
In The News
How Artificial Intelligence Reasons
Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.
Why China's Manus Could Leapfrog Western Agent Technology
Unlike chatbots, these systems carry out complex tasks with little human involvement. In coming years, we may see them evolving into virtual assistants, teachers, employees, carers and even friends.
OpenAI reshuffles leadership as Sam Altman pivots to technical focus
In a significant executive shuffle announced Monday, OpenAI is expanding COO Brad Lightcap’s responsibilities while CEO Sam Altman shifts his attention more toward the company’s technical direction. The news was first reported by Bloomberg.
Applied use cases
ChatGPT’s new image generator is delayed for free users
Sam Altman said the upgraded tool is ‘more popular than we expected’ as users flood the internet with Studio Ghibli-style images.
AI recruitment machines map out workers’ career paths
AI is not only changing the nature of work, it’s changing who does the work, with tools that influence hirings, firings and promotions. This has raised fears that self-learning machines will dictate career paths.
AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems
Ethics
The AI act: a new regulatory model for data centers?
The European Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act) establishes a regulatory framework to ensure the ethical and safe use of AI. However, and given the context of data centres, it is still necessary to comprehend what are the environmental impacts of its use.
OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns
It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.”
The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?
There’s a thought experiment that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build an artificial intelligence and give it a seemingly innocuous goal, like making as many paper clips as possible, it might eventually turn everything — including humanity — into raw material for more paper clips.
Robotics
Former Cruise CEO Vogt's robotics startup valued at $2 billion in new funding, sources say
Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks for his robotics startup The Bot Company, valuing the firm launched less than a year ago at $2 billion, sources told Reuters.
Elon Musk thinks robots are a $10 trillion business
Spinning bright red handkerchiefs and dancing in step to folk music, more than a dozen human-like robots took to China’s biggest stage in January, making a splashy debut at the annual Lunar New Year gala.
A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google, and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup
A senior research scientist at DeepMind who worked on robotics and AI has left Google to create his own robotics startup, called Generalist AI, and has already obtained investment from Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
Research
Data-centric AI: A Survey
In this survey, we discuss the necessity of data-centric AI, followed by a holistic view of three general data-centric goals (training data development, inference data development, and data maintenance) and the representative methods.
AI: an overview of research trends and future directions
This study aims to offer an overview of hospitality and tourism research on artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the industry. More specifically, this study examines hospitality and tourism AI research trends in hospitality and tourism customer service experience creation and delivery, service failure and recovery, human resources and organizational behavior.
The doctor and patient of tomorrow: exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, preventive medicine, and ethical challenges in future healthcare Provisionally accepted
This paper addresses the critical gap in AI integration in preventive healthcare, highlighting statistical evidence of its impact. It also explores the intersection of AI, preventive medicine, and ethical challenges in future healthcare, envisioning the evolving roles of physicians and patients in an AIintegrated ecosystem.
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OpenAI uses Metronome for scalable billing infrastructure
OpenAI moved from a homegrown, manual billing solution to Metronome—the automated billing platform built for UBP—to quickly launch new products and easily manage complex pricing. See why Metronome is the billing system that AI companies trust to help them scale.