Robert Hart

OpenAI wants to spend more than $1 trillion on its quest to build superintelligent AI, according to the Financial Times.

The number of new online articles generated by AI hovers at around 50 percent, according to research from SEO firm Graphite. That figure, first reported by Axios, seems stable(ish) for now. Maybe there is hope that AI won’t crowd out real humans across the internet.

Keep your eyes peeled for a new photo feature coming to Google Search soon. Google says Create mode will let you transform images with AI, courtesy of its popular image editor Nano Banana.

JPMorgan has told staff they’ll have to ditch ID badges in favor of eye or fingerprint scans to access the bank’s new HQ in New York, according to emails seen by the Financial Times. The biometric scheme was supposed to be voluntary, but shifted to required as employees moved in.

Given how fast the frontier is moving, why bother? Tzu Kit Chan, an AI strategist who advises the Malaysian government, told The Guardian countries would be better off beefing up regulations than making tech to compete with US giants.

OpenAI says Go has been expanded to 16 more countries in Asia, after launching in India and Indonesia earlier this year. The plan, which costs less than $10 a month, includes higher image generation limits and better access to its flagship AI model than ChatGPT’s free tier.