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Visual China Group | Getty Images Google on Wednesday released Gemini 2.0 — its “most capable” artificial intelligence model suite yet — to everyone. In December, the company gave access to developers and trusted testers, as well as wrapping some features into Google products, but this is a “general release,” according to Google. The suite of models…
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images SoftBank has committed to spending $3 billion per year for itself and its subsidiaries to use OpenAI’s tech, according to a joint announcement on Monday. The two also announced a new joint venture, billed as “SB OpenAI Japan,” which will market OpenAI’s enterprise tech exclusively to major companies…
A week ago, OpenAI released a tool that can go online to shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. Now it is offering A.I. technology that can gather information from across the internet and synthesize it in concise reports. OpenAI unveiled the new tool, called Deep Research, with a demonstration on YouTube on Sunday,…
Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague pronouncements about how the technology will help employees enjoy more satisfying careers, or create as many opportunities as it eliminates. A.I. will “help tackle the kind of tasks most people find repetitive, which frees up employees to…
Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague pronouncements about how the technology will help employees enjoy more satisfying careers, or create as many opportunities as it eliminates. A.I. will “help tackle the kind of tasks most people find repetitive, which frees up employees to…
In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings. Booked a Valentine’s Day date for me and my wife. Scheduled a haircut. It did these tasks mostly autonomously, although I did have…
If you’re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence, know this: The answers it gives you will largely reflect the worldview of the Chinese Communist Party. Since the tool made its debut this month, rattling stock markets and more established tech giants like…
The Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek upended the prevailing view that artificial intelligence systems require huge amounts of power and investment. But Blackstone, the private equity behemoth and a major global investor in data centers that run A.I. systems, remains optimistic. “We still think there’s a vital need for physical infrastructure, data centers and power,” Jonathan…
OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence company that has been on a yearslong money-raising frenzy, is in talks with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank for an investment up to $25 billion, according to three people familiar with the negotiations. Some of that money could be used to cover OpenAI’s commitment to Stargate, the $100 billion data…
We have sad news: We are following the latest on the midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington between an American Airlines flight carrying 64 people and a U.S. Army helicopter with three crew members aboard. No one was believed to have survived the crash, officials said. The C.E.O. of American Airlines has…