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OpenAI is discontinuing its Sora video platform app as part of a broader strategic shift toward business and coding tools. Berber Jin reports for the Wall Street Journal that CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff, saying the company would wind down all products built on its video models. The shutdown affects the consumer-facing …
As artificial intelligence becomes a standard workplace tool, companies are beginning to monitor how much it actually costs to use. Katherine Bindley reports for the Wall Street Journal that businesses are tracking employee AI consumption through a metric called tokens, the basic unit that measures computing effort behind every AI interaction. For text-based tasks, roughly …
Nvidia has unveiled NemoClaw, a software stack that integrates with OpenClaw, the autonomous AI agent platform that became one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in recent history. The announcement came at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose. NemoClaw is not a replacement for OpenClaw. It functions as an enterprise-ready distribution of the platform, installing …
Manus, the AI agent developed by the company of the same name, can now operate directly on users’ computers. The company writes in the official announcement that the new “My Computer” feature is part of the Manus Desktop application and enables the agent to access local files, applications, and development tools through terminal commands. Previously, …
Val Kilmer will appear in the upcoming film “As Deep as the Grave” through generative AI, despite never having filmed a single scene before his death in 2025. Coerte Voorhees reports for Variety that the late actor was originally cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, but throat cancer prevented him …
The UK government has abandoned its plan to let AI companies use copyrighted works without explicit permission. Graham Fraser reports for the BBC that the original proposal would have allowed an opt-out system, meaning creators would have needed to actively prevent AI firms from using their work for model training. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced …
Large language models can build apps, predict protein structures and generate realistic videos. But they consistently fail at one fundamental human skill: writing well. Jasmine Sun reports for The Atlantic that modern AI systems are structurally built in ways that actively work against good writing. And that is quite surprising: Today’s most powerful AI models …
Small online publishers are suffering the steepest decline in search-driven web traffic as artificial intelligence transforms how people find information online. Axios reports that small publishers, defined as those receiving between 1,000 and 10,000 daily page views, have lost 60% of their referral traffic from traditional search engines over the past two years. Medium-sized publishers …
Mistral AI has launched Forge, a platform that allows companies and governments to train custom AI models using their own proprietary data. The French AI startup announced the product at Nvidia’s GTC conference. Most enterprise AI tools today rely on fine-tuning or retrieval augmented generation (RAG), which adapt existing models at runtime without retraining them. …
Nvidia used its annual GTC conference in San Jose to announce a sweeping set of new products centered on a single idea: artificial intelligence is shifting from systems that answer questions to systems that act autonomously over long periods of time. Nearly every announcement at the event was designed around “agentic AI”. The centerpiece was …