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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. …
Anthropic has agreed terms on a new $30bn funding round that values the artificial intelligence company at $900bn, surpassing rival OpenAI’s current valuation of $852bn. The Financial Times reports that investment firms Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital and Altimeter Capital will co-lead the round, with each likely contributing $2bn or more. The deal is expected to …
Apple is preparing a major overhaul of its Siri assistant in iOS 27, centering on a standalone Siri app with built-in privacy controls. Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that the new app will let users set conversations to auto-delete after 30 days, one year, or never. Apple positions this as a systemic privacy protection rather …
A California jury has rejected all of Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft, and other defendants after a three-week trial in Oakland. The jury reached its unanimous verdict in under two hours. The case centered on Musk’s claim that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman had “stolen a charity” by transforming OpenAI …
A new licensing standard aims to give people control over how AI systems use their likenesses, creative works, characters, and designs. The Human Consent Standard allows individuals to grant full permission, set conditions, or block access entirely. The Verge reports, that this initiative is backed by Hollywood figures including George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, …
OpenAI has launched a self-serve advertising platform called Ads Manager, opening ChatGPT to a much wider range of advertisers. Axios reports that the tool is now rolling out in beta to U.S. advertisers after months of internal testing. Asad Awan, OpenAI’s head of monetization, says businesses can now create and manage ad campaigns directly through …
Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use the full compute capacity of Colossus 1, a data center in the United States. The deal gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity, backed by over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, within the month. Anthropic head of product Ami Vora announced the partnership at the …
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing them of illegally copying millions of books and articles to train the company’s Llama AI system. Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The plaintiffs include Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage. The lawsuit, filed in the …
ComfyUI, a startup offering precise control over AI-generated images, video, and audio, has raised $30 million in a new funding round at a $500 million valuation. Marina Temkin reports for TechCrunch that Craft Ventures led the round, with Pace Capital, Chemistry, and TruArrow also participating. The company began as an open-source project in 2023. Its …
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in AI startup Anthropic, deepening a relationship between two companies that compete directly in the AI market while also depending on each other commercially. Google will commit $10 billion immediately, valuing Anthropic at $350 billion. An additional $30 billion may follow if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, …