Amazon is determined to turn Alexa Plus into a do-everything AI assistant that can compete with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and the rest. But after a year of testing, The Verge’s Jen Tuohy has mixed feelings on how it’s all going. And on whether a new tablet is the right way to fix it.
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In a letter to OpenAI, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni push back on OpenAI’s claims that they shared confidential information with an outside AI safety group.
The three researchers say they “acted in line with OpenAI’s mission,” and raise concern that their firings could “justify ending OpenAI’s work with METR,” the AI safety organization that investigated the rogue Hugging Face hack.
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You can ask Anthropic’s AI chatbot to incorporate motion into its output, allowing it to create a 30-second video explainer, add animation to a chart, or make a product walkthrough. The animation will play like a short video, which you can download as an MP4 file.
Anthropic is also rolling out live dashboards that update based on your company’s data, and is launching Docs, Slides, and Design out of beta.
The Verge considers anyone that uses the term, “Cool,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Fetch,” THE ENEMY.
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act would require data centers to report their electricity use, and allow utilities to charge them more for transmission costs. The bill aims to speed the construction of new infrastructure needed to meet soaring electricity demand, but won’t come up for a Senate vote until after midterm elections.
The company announced the investment at the Science: A New Golden Age event in DC, but didn’t specify what shape the investments would take, only saying they were “valued at” $1 billion and would focus on “super intelligence” and quantum computing.
Over the next five years, NVIDIA will commit $1 billion to the advancement of super intelligence for science and quantum computing across the U.S. through support of the nation’s higher-education research institutions, investments in accelerating American quantum leadership and support for cloud service providers bolstering U.S. government mission needs.
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Amazon’s assistant can’t always remember who I am or where my daughter goes to school — but it can now reliably turn on my lights.
According to The Verge’s senior AI reporter, Luca Guadagnino’s dark comedy hit all the familiar tech milestones.
