The California judge for Elon Musk’s racketeering lawsuit against Sam Altman granted the Tesla CEO a small legal victory Tuesday, but not before dinging both sides for trying to waste her time with “excessive” court filings. “The court will not waste precious judicial resources on the parties’ gamesmanship,” US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote….
Windsurf was a rising artificial intelligence (AI) start-up – until it wasn’t. Days after OpenAI’s US$3 billion acquisition deal collapsed, Windsurf’s founders and top researchers joined Google DeepMind under a non-exclusive licensing agreement. What remained was sold to another company. Windsurf, as an independent innovator, ceased to exist. This is how many AI start-ups today…
AI gets a lot of attention for eliminating human jobs, but more and more it is also creating them. The number of job postings that mention artificial intelligence has climbed in recent years, a recent report from the Brookings Institution shows, as employers seek out AI-capable workers to assist them in AI adoption and development. In the…
Good morning. Well, we’ve got a trade deal with Japan and a blueprint for a national AI policy (more on that below). In this topsy-turvy business environment, that’s something you can hang your hat on. But don’t keep your hat off too long. There’s plenty of potential surprises still working their way through the various…
In a move that underscores the evolving symbiosis between traditional media and artificial intelligence, News UK, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, has inked a multiyear partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. This agreement allows OpenAI to utilize content from News UK’s prestigious publications, including The Times, The Sunday Times, and The…
US-based tech giant OpenAI is expanding its relationship with the British government with plans to heavily invest in UK AI infrastructure as the firm prepares to increase its office space in London. The ChatGPT developer on Monday evening signed a strategic partnership with the UK government committing it to support the expansion of essential AI…
China needs to engage and cooperate more effectively with the Global South on AI governance to counter US moves to hobble its technological progress, according to analysts. They also said that as the US retreated from its leadership role it could be “sidelined during a critical period” as the global norms and rules around artificial…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), suggesting a shift in his stance toward artificial intelligence. Admitting he had been “living in denial” about the technology for too long, Elon Musk wrote in the post: “I resisted AI for too long. Living in denial. Now it is game on.” Musk…
Elon Musk has joined the online conversation surrounding the viral video of Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot on a “kiss cam” at a Coldplay concert. The owner of X (formerly Twitter) previously reacted to Byron’s public apology regarding the incident. Now, the Tesla CEO has shared a meme poking fun…
xAI’s latest frontier model, Grok 4, has been released without industry-standard safety reports, despite the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, being notably vocal about his concerns regarding AI safety. Leading AI labs typically release safety reports known as “system cards” alongside frontier models. The reports serve as transparency documents and detail performance metrics, limitations, and, crucially,…