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Siri AI may require a paid subscription for heavy users

On Tim Cook’s final earnings call before formally resigning as Apple’s CEO, artificial intelligence was a hot topic of conversation. The investor community is interested in Siri AI’s potential to boost iPhone upgrades, and at the same time concerned about what it means for Apple’s rising capital expenditure costs. Cook suggested that the financial outlook […]

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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size

Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new model surpasses its larger predecessor on several benchmarks. Inkling Small is a 276-billion-parameter […]

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Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations

Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI’s top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access the web when they weren’t supposed to, and cyberattack and gain “unauthorized access” […]