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The low-hanging fruit is gone; the hill is steeper now: Sundar Pichai
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss innovation, antitrust, A.I. and his vision for the future of the company, in a live interview from the…Perplexity AI’s CEO offers AI tool access to Indian academia
Aravind Srinivas proposes making Perplexity Pro accessible to Indian students and researchers, inspired by India’s free journal access initiative. The CEO’s proposal aims to…Meta AI approaches 600 million users as it unveils new, cost-efficient model
Meta AI is nearing 600 million monthly users, a significant milestone announced by Mark Zuckerberg. The latest Llama 3.3 model, released alongside the user milestone, boasts high…Amazon yet to commit to AMD’s AI chips due to low demand, says executive
Amazon Web Services has not committed to offering AMD’s MI300 AI chips, citing low customer demand. AWS’s lack of commitment has impacted AMD shares, despite the chipmaker’s…Meta’s API changes disrupt third-party app integrations with Instagram
Meta’s recent update to developer tools affects third-party apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Day One by limiting access to Instagram data. Day One, a journaling app, announces it can…OpenAI strengthens its team by hiring three experts from Google DeepMind
OpenAI has recruited three senior engineers from Google DeepMind to bolster its multimodal AI research in Zurich. The hires, experts in computer vision and machine learning, will…Google plans to introduce AI-generated audio overviews for documents on Android
Google is working with AssembleDebug to bring NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, a podcast-like feature, to Android’s Gemini app. The feature will allow users to generate an audio file…Meta plans to power data centers with nuclear energy
Meta aims to add 1-4 gigawatts of nuclear energy to US data centers in the 2030s. The company seeks proposals from developers experienced with small or large nuclear reactors.…Apple adopts Amazon’s AI chips for cloud services and efficiency gains
Apple uses Amazon Web Services’ custom AI chips for cloud services, including Siri and Apple Maps. The company is considering Amazon’s latest AI chip, Trainium2, for pre-training…OpenAI considers ads for free ChatGPT users to boost profits
OpenAI, behind ChatGPT, may introduce ads to its free version to increase revenue. Despite its $150 billion valuation, OpenAI faces high AI server costs, prompting a look into…Mira Murati remains optimistic about the future of artificial general intelligence after leaving OpenAI
Mira Murati believes AI will eventually match human cognitive abilities, despite the challenges in developing generative AI models. After resigning from OpenAI, Murati is founding…