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Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI
As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 — one that would nab the young startup critical compute to build what would become ChatGPT — Sam Altman needed the blessing of his biggest investor, Elon Musk.
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Salesforce launches AI platform for automated task management
Salesforce is now stepping up its AI game with Agentforce, a platform that lets businesses to build and deploy digital agents to automate tasks such as creating sales reports and summarising Slack conversations.
Nvidia says its Blackwell AI chip is ‘full steam’ ahead
Nvidia has become the world’s most valuable company on the back of AI chips, passing Microsoft and Apple along the way, and in today’s Q3 2025 earnings, the company suggested its record AI revenue and profits are only the beginning.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s newest model surpasses OpenAI’s o1 in ‘reasoning’ tasks
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has unveiled a new “reasoning” model that it says compare very favorably with OpenAI’s o1 large language model, which is designed to answer math and science questions with more accuracy than traditional LLMs.
Applied use cases
4 ways AI is transforming healthcare
With 4.5 billion people currently without access to essential healthcare services and a health worker shortage of 10 million expected by 2030, AI has the potential to help bridge that gap and revolutionize global healthcare.
AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn
It’s the new badge of celebrity status that nobody wants. Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey and Kylie Jenner have all had their voices cloned by fraudsters.
OpenText expands AI capabilities to improve enterprise productivity and ROI
There is a lot of hype and a lot of promise surrounding AI and what it can bring to an enterprise. For enterprise software vendor OpenText, moving beyond the hype to be able to actually demonstrate the value of AI is now an everyday mission.
Ethics
War and Peace in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
From the recalibration of military strategy to the reconstitution of diplomacy, artificial intelligence will become a key determinant of order in the world.
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case.
US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser
US justice department officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser to dismantle the monopoly it has over the internet search market, in a major intervention against one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Robotics
Can robots learn from machine dreams?
MIT CSAIL researchers used AI-generated images to train a robot dog in parkour, without real-world data. Their LucidSim system demonstrates generative AI's potential for creating robotics training data.
Human-robot cooperative piano playing hits the high note at AI conference
A musical robot that can play the piano alongside a human, creating a harmonic accompaniment in real time, has won an award at the Center for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) Conference 2024.
Can a fluffy robot really replace a cat or dog?
Casio says Moflin can develop its own personality and build a rapport with its owner – and it doesn’t need food, exercise or a litter tray. But is it essentially comforting or alienating?
Research
OpenAssistant Conversations - Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment
Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences has proven to drastically improve usability and has driven rapid adoption as demonstrated by ChatGPT.
AI and its Potential Impact on the Future of Higher Education
This preliminary paper examines some of the literature to date, which discusses potential risks and threats, as well as the opportunities to enhance learning, embedded in this new wave of emerging AI technologies in higher education.
Self-Evolving Reward Learning aligns LLMs with less human feedback
Researchers from Fudan University, Peking University, and Microsoft have introduced Self-Evolved Reward Learning (SER), a technique that reduces the need for human-labeled data during alignment training of large language models (LLMs).