A sick dog, desperate owner, and a bunch of chatbots made for a great story. The actual science was much messier.
CEO of applications Fidji Simo told staff the company will prioritize coding and enterprise users over the wide array of projects it has been pursuing, the WSJ reports, including deepfake machine Sora, browser Atlas, and gadgets.
It gave a similar explanation when it delayed the release of ChatGPT’s “adult mode.”
The company postponed its next AI model, codenamed Avocado, from this month until at least May, the NYT reports. Performance apparently falls short of rivals like Google.
Meta’s spent billions trying to catch up, and Avocado will be its first major release since hiring Scale’s Alexandr Wang to revamp its efforts.
Claude can now communicate across Excel and PowerPoint, saving you from needing to keep switching tabs or re-explaining datasets at every step. Anthropic said it’s Claude “carrying the conversation across apps without losing track of what’s happening in either.”
His Paris-based startup, Advance Machine Intelligence, just raised $1 billion to build AI world models.
It’s another big bet on what might be the next big thing in AI: systems trained on the physical world, not just text and images.
An empty tome listing nearly 10,000 authors — including Kazuo Ishiguro — calls out “theft” by AI companies as the UK government weighs sweeping changes to copyright law. It follows last year’s “silent album” stunt.
Organizers are handing out copies at today’s London Book Fair. Just don’t let Anthropic shred them.
