Two ideas for what to give a friend or colleague: 1. A stylish coaster 2. A functional beer bottle opener Don't thank me.

Microsoft has released its first image generator The MAI-Image-1 model debuted at 9th place on LMArena and is currently available only there. It’s expected to be added to Copilot and Bing Image Creator soon.

Then vs now Photo 1: Jensen Huang brought the first graphics card to OpenAI. The inscription on it reads: 'To Elon and the OpenAI team. For the future of computing and humanity, I present to you the world’s first DGX-1.' 2016. Photo 2: Jensen Huang brought Musk a DGX Spark at

Gemini 3.0 Pro is doing web simulations of Windows and macOS According to the author, Gemini generated the code in one go from a very simple prompt and fit it into a single HTML file. Prompt: "Design and create a web os like windows os full functional features from text editor

An approximate breakdown of OpenAI’s compute spending for 2024. Source — a fresh infographic from Epoch,Ai. By various estimates and media reports, the total came to about $7 billion. Of that, $2B (this figure should be fairly accurate—I remember reading it in The Information)

An interesting article about how an LLM can help with utterly traditional marketing. No, not by cranking out the umpteenth slick piece of copy that people will quickly spot as AI-generated. Companies, especially those in FMCG, spend huge sums every year on consumer preference

We stumbled upon a real rarity on the internet. Take a closer look. Do you recognize the fashionista on the right? It's a young Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton with his colleague. He's always been a rock star

Bloomberg has illustrated the circular flow of billions in the AI industry. - OpenAI spends money on chips from Nvidia, and Nvidia, in turn, invests in OpenAI. - Oracle buys chips from Nvidia and simultaneously signs a deal with OpenAI to provide cloud computing services valued

Britain: Introduces a stupid law that makes it impossible to use various services including Discord without uploading scanned documents. A couple months later: Data for potentially 70,000 people got leaked due to an attack on Discord's partner that processes documents. Who

We’re lucky to live in the best time of this universe, in a brief window when the stars still burn after the Big Bang — because the last stars will go out in about 120 trillion years. After that, the universe will enter an era of darkness and black holes — for the most massive

Google has released a new state-of-the-art Computer Use model built on Gemini 2.5 On many major benchmarks it solidly outperforms ChatGPT’s Agent mode, Claude Sonnet 4, and 4.5, and it’s claimed to have much lower latency. The model works well on the web and reasonably well on

A stunning collage: the number of job openings in the U.S. set against stock prices. 'AI won’t take your jobs,' yeah, yeah.

It's funny that Sora 2 (even Pro) barely knows how to generate people getting into cars :) Looks like the world model is still a work in progress.

In the Chinese city of Liuyang, it literally rained drones. They began falling onto the crowd during a show after organizers decided that combining drones and fireworks was a good idea. As a result, some of the drones caught fire and came crashing down.

Google Research has released the PASTA text-to-image agent for iterative image generation PASTA interacts with the user step by step, refining preferences and improving images each time. The idea is to spare the user from tedious prompt tweaking and trial-and-error generation,

Wow, OpenAI makes and runs ads for ChatGPT, despite all the talk of it being revolutionary and viral. I didn’t know. Shoutout to everyone who thinks ‘a good product sells itself.’ Even ChatGPT needs advertising.

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OpenAI is the most valuable private company in the world Current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion worth of shares to investors, and the company is now valued at $500 billion. For comparison, its closest rival, SpaceX, is worth about $400 billion, and Google at $3

Musk became the first person in history to reach a $500 billion net worth. Since April, Tesla’s stock has nearly doubled after Musk announced he was done with government business, was stepping away from DOGE, and would devote more time to the company. Remember how we were told