Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, is joining Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X (formerly Twitter), writing that he is “very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” At Anthropic, Karpathy will join the pretraining team, which handles the large-scale training runs …
Google has overhauled its lineup of AI subscription plans, introducing a new lower-cost Ultra tier and lowering the price of its most expensive option. The changes were announced at the company’s I/O developer conference. The new entry point into the Ultra tier costs $100 per month. Google says it targets developers, technical leads, and advanced …
Google has announced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent that runs continuously in the cloud and completes tasks without requiring the user to be present. The company unveiled the product at its annual I/O developer conference. Spark is powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash and connects directly to Google Workspace apps including Gmail, Docs, and Slides. …
Google has launched Gemini Omni, a new artificial intelligence model that accepts text, images, audio, and video as input and produces video output. The company describes it as natively multimodal, meaning a single model handles all content types rather than passing tasks between separate systems. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is …
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new artificial intelligence model designed to execute complex tasks quickly and at a lower cost. The technology aims to solve a common challenge in the industry, where organizations previously had to choose between fast, cheap models and slower, more capable ones. Google claims the new model outperforms its …
Google and OpenAI are expanding their tools to help users identify AI-generated media. The companies are combining their technologies to make digital content verification more reliable across the internet. Google is integrating its digital watermarking technology, SynthID, with the industry-standard C2PA Content Credentials. The company is rolling out these verification features across Google Search, Chrome, …
Google has overhauled its search box for the first time since 2001, announcing the changes at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California. The redesigned interface accepts longer, conversational questions alongside images, videos, PDFs, and content dragged in from Chrome tabs. Previously, users had to navigate to a separate section of the site …
Amazon has added an AI-generated podcast feature to its Alexa+ voice assistant, allowing users to create audio content on any topic using two synthetic co-hosts. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that the feature, called Alexa Podcasts, produces episodes through artificial intelligence without any human editorial involvement. Users request a topic by voice. Alexa+ then outlines …
Malta has become the first country to offer all its citizens and residents free access to ChatGPT Plus through a partnership with OpenAI. The deal, announced by OpenAI and the Maltese government, gives residents one year of free ChatGPT Plus after completing an AI literacy course. The course was developed by the University of Malta. …
A new study from Microsoft Research reveals that large language models (LLMs) silently corrupt documents during extended, multi-step workflows, often in ways that are nearly impossible for humans to detect. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that even the best-performing AI models degrade an average of 25% of document content across these workflows. The research team …