Microsoft rebrands AI push as superintelligence

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Microsoft declares it's building "humanist superintelligence" to keep AI safe. Reality check: They're 2 years behind OpenAI, whose models they'll use until 2032. The safety pitch? Product differentiation for enterprise clients who fear runaway AI.

Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 15728 / 11 stories in 4 months

Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Snap said today that it has signed a deal with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to power a new chatbot. As part of the deal, Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity.

Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 7:20 am / permalink 15722 / 8 stories in 4 months

Apple Will Reportedly Rent Siri a New Brain from Google for $1 Billion Per Year

Mike Pearl / gizmodo - Google reportedly won Apple's confidence after many AI suitors were entertained.

Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 15716 / 9 stories in 4 months

Apple And Google Circle $1 Billion Deal For Custom Gemini Model To Power Siri Overhaul

bgr - Rumors of Apple turning to Google's Gemini to power its conversational Siri appear to be true, as a $1 billion/year deal is currently in the works.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 3:20 pm / permalink 15706 / 5 stories in 4 months

Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts

Julian Chokkattu / wired - A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15693 / 6 stories in 4 months

Stability AI’s legal win over Getty leaves copyright law in limbo

Robert Hart / theverge - Stability AI, the creator of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, was largely victorious against Getty Images on Tuesday in a British legal battle over the material used to train AI models. The case originally looked set to produce a landmark ruling on A…

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Google Tests A New Version Of AI Mode

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - Google is testing a new version of AI Mode responses in the wild, directly in the Google Search AI Mode interface. Google even tells the searcher, "You're giving feedback on a new version of Al Mode. Which response do you prefer?"

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 15686 / 7 stories in 4 months

Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for productivity but are now deploying AI-enabled malware directly in …

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Next version of Apple's personal assistant Siri will be powered by Google Gemini

techspot - Bloomberg's Apple guru Mark Gurman notes that the new Siri will "lean on Google's Gemini model" for features such as AI-powered web search. Apple expects Gemini to make Siri more capable than ever, though some employees reportedly question whether iPhone …

Back to Top / Monday, November 3, 2025, 2:21 pm / permalink 15623 / 5 stories in 4 months

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Suleyman thinks conscious AI is an "absurd" pursuit.

Back to Top / Monday, November 3, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 15617 / 6 stories in 4 months

Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation

Robert Hart / theverge - Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her. In a post on X, Google’s official news account said the com…

Back to Top / Monday, November 3, 2025, 6:21 am / permalink 15605 / 7 stories in 4 months

OpenAI moves Sora to paid model, discovers concept of paying for content

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI is shifting Sora from free to paid video generation after discovering that the 30 free videos per day model isn't sustainable.The article OpenAI moves Sora to paid model, discovers concept of paying for content appeared first on THE DECODER.

Back to Top / Saturday, November 1, 2025, 10:20 am / permalink 15589 / 2 stories in 4 months

OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These “character cameos” are one of several new features that have been added to the Sora 2 video generator, alongside clip stitching and leaderboa…

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 8:22 am / permalink 15537 / 10 stories in 4 months

Cursor ships faster agents while security researchers flag the gap

Robert Brown / implicator - Cursor's new AI agents complete coding tasks in 30 seconds—four times faster than rivals. The same day, Forrester found 45% of AI-generated code has security flaws. The velocity gap between agent speed and vulnerability detection is widening fast.

Back to Top / Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15528 / 8 stories in 4 months

GitHub Opens Up to Multiple Third Party Agents

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - On the opening day of GitHub Universe 2025, GitHub announced Agent HQ, its vision for the future of the platform.The post GitHub Opens Up to Multiple Third Party Agents appeared first on Thurrott.com.

Back to Top / Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 1:21 pm / permalink 15493 / 4 stories in 4 months

How Mercor’s human-in-the-loop AI platform went from college dropouts to $10B startup

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The scarcity of high-quality human expertise necessary for training and improving advanced models like ChatGPT has emerged as…

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Gemini Can Now Create Presentations Among Other Features As Part Of Gemini's October Drops

bgr - Google's Gemini AI can now create presentations for you with a single prompt, among other features that are part of the October feature drop.

Back to Top / Monday, October 27, 2025, 8:23 am / permalink 15443 / 2 stories in 4 months