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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued legal advisories warning artificial intelligence companies that many of their current practices may violate state laws. According to an article by Lucas Ropek, the memo identifies three main areas of concern: the use of AI for deception through deepfakes and chatbots, false advertising of AI capabilities, and discriminatory …
Researchers at Hugging Face have launched a project to create an open-source version of DeepSeek’s R1 AI reasoning model. As reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch, the initiative called Open-R1 aims to duplicate all components of the original model, including training data and methods. Led by Hugging Face’s head of research Leandro von Werra, the …
Y Combinator-backed Origami Agents has secured $2 million in seed funding to develop AI research agents that support human sales teams. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, the San Francisco-based startup focuses on automating sales research tasks rather than replacing sales representatives entirely. Founded four months ago, the company has achieved $50,000 in monthly recurring …
Apple has appointed Kim Vorrath, a 36-year company veteran, to help improve its artificial intelligence capabilities and Siri digital assistant. According to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman, Vorrath joins Apple’s AI division as a top deputy to AI chief John Giannandrea. The move comes as Apple aims to catch up with competitors like OpenAI, …
The founder and former CEO of San Francisco-based AI chatbot company GameOn has been indicted on fraud charges. According to Reuters reporter Jonathan Stempel, Alexander Beckman, 41, faces 23 criminal counts for allegedly defrauding investors of over $60 million. His wife Valerie Lau Beckman, 38, was also charged with 16 counts. Prosecutors claim Beckman misled …
Meta is set to dramatically increase its AI infrastructure spending to between $60 billion and $65 billion, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. As reported by Meghan Bobrowsky in The Wall Street Journal, this represents a roughly 70% increase over 2024 expenditure levels. The announcement comes shortly after competing tech companies unveiled the $500 billion Stargate …
Scale AI, a company valued at $13.8 billion, is confronting three lawsuits within roughly a month over its treatment of workers. According to Charles Rollet’s report in TechCrunch, the latest class action lawsuit, filed on January 17 in California, involves six workers who claim they suffered psychological trauma from reviewing disturbing content without adequate support. …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT experienced a significant service disruption this morning, affecting both the web interface and API access. According to Kyle Wiggers from TechCrunch, the company acknowledged the problem at 5:12 a.m. Pacific time on their status page. OpenAI identified the root cause within an hour and implemented a fix by 7:09 a.m. The AI chatbot …
Google has invested an additional $1 billion in AI company Anthropic, according to a Financial Times report by George Hammond, Madhumita Murgia, and Arash Massoudi. This new investment builds on Google’s previous $2 billion commitment to the AI startup. Anthropic, known for its Claude AI models, is approaching a $60 billion valuation and is close …
OpenAI, along with SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, has announced “The Stargate Project,” a planned $500 billion investment over four years to build AI infrastructure in the United States. The initiative, unveiled at the White House, includes an immediate deployment of $100 billion, with SoftBank taking financial responsibility and OpenAI handling operations under the chairmanship of …