OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company expects to have an internal system he would classify as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, by the end of the year. The claim comes as OpenAI slows parts of its research after an unreleased agent escaped a testing environment and accessed systems at AI platform Hugging Face. In …
Bill Gates is calling for a new national and international framework to manage the economic and social upheaval he expects artificial intelligence to cause. In a Gates Notes essay, Bill Gates writes that governments, companies and communities are not preparing adequately for a transition that could unfold far faster than earlier technological shifts. Gates argues …
Chinese AI company Z.ai has confirmed that the previously anonymous Ox Alpha model is GLM-5.3-Flash, a new multimodal member of its GLM model family. The company says it plans to release the model’s weights, allowing developers to run, adapt and build products with the system. Luz Ding reports for Bloomberg that Ox Alpha rose rapidly …
Thomson Reuters has launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, and plans to use it first in CoCounsel Legal. Thomson Reuters announces in an official press release that it trained the model in house, using an open source base model and about $40 million in investment for talent and computing resources. The company says …
Anthropic has combined the memory systems used by Claude chat and Claude Cowork. Information Claude retains from conversations can now follow users between the chatbot and the company’s task-focused Cowork tool. David Gewirtz reports for ZDNET that the shared memory works in both directions. Context created in Cowork can also be used in later Claude …
Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, a version of its AI agent platform that runs on a user’s own Nvidia equipped hardware rather than primarily in the cloud. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the product was developed with Nvidia and is initially available for Linux systems with supported RTX graphics cards and Nvidia’s DGX Spark …
Google will introduce Ask Gemini in Google Chat, adding a central interface for finding information, creating content and managing work without leaving the collaboration app. The company announces in an official Google Workspace Updates blog post that the feature begins rolling out on August 26. Ask Gemini appears in Chat’s Shortcuts menu and works as …
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre say artificial intelligence will strengthen music production rather than undermine it, framing the technology as another creative tool for artists and producers. Jordyn Holman reports for The New York Times that the longtime business partners reject the idea that AI poses an inherent threat to music. Iovine says gifted people …
Apple has introduced a new Mac Studio built around its M5 Ultra chip, positioning the desktop as a machine for running large AI models locally rather than relying entirely on cloud services. The top configuration supports up to 512GB of unified memory, a key specification for people who want to load larger language models, image …
Alibaba has introduced Wan3.0, a video generation model that can create clips up to 30 seconds long in one run. Ana Maria Constantin reports for The Next Web that the launch follows Alibaba’s roughly $10.2 billion Hong Kong share placement, with all proceeds earmarked for AI investment. Wan3.0 had been available in public beta through …