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Published on April 28, 2026 at 09:16 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Microsoft and OpenAI have distanced themselves. Six years after the start of their alliance, the two partners are revising their agreement. Six years after the start of their alliance, Microsoft and OpenAI have officially reconfigured their partnership. In a joint statement published on April 27, 2026, the two companies announced a thorough revision of their agreement. This revision ends the ex

Published on April 28, 2026 at 12:00 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Google has just signed a confidential agreement with the US government to use its artificial intelligence in the context of classified defense affairs. More than 600 employees, including vice presidents, have recently signed a letter requesting the suspension of negotiations, expressing their concerns about the ethical consequences. After the highly criticized Maven project, Google had pro

Published on April 28, 2026 at 12:34 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada pour 01net The Europe wants your voice assistant to no longer be chosen by Google or Apple, but by you. The two giants have completely different answers. On an Android phone, try asking ChatGPT to read what is displayed on the screen, to send an email on your behalf, or to trigger when you say its name. None of this works. Gemini, Google's in-house assistant, can do that. The difference bet

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Published on April 29, 2026 at 08:16 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Pixabay - Gerd Altmann. Illustration photo. « The arrival of Boris Lecoeur within Synfonium marks a new step in the group's and its two brands, Qwant and Shadow, trajectory » : Synfonium announces the arrival of its new leader: Boris Lecoeur. A new leader will soon be at the helm of Synfonium, the structure grouping Shadow, the French specialist in cloud PCs, and Qwant, the French search engine. Bori

Published on April 29, 2026 at 13:44 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Meta announced the layoff of 700 employees from Covalen, a Meta subcontractor, during a video conference. Most of the laid-off employees were annotators contributing to the improvement of AI systems for content moderation. During a brief video conference, 700 employees of Covalen, a Meta subcontractor, were notified of their layoff. As expected, the cause of this layoff is artificial intellig

Published on April 30, 2026 at 08:38 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net A national policy to regulate AI. Six invented academic quotes out of 67. The culprit is AI itself. Everything was supposed to go faster than expected. South Africa wanted to become the first African country to establish a national framework to regulate artificial intelligence, modeled on our European AI Act. Cabinet secured on March 25, published in the Government Gazette on April 10, public

Published on April 30, 2026 at 16:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Solen Feyissa (Unsplash) Users of ChatGPT report a proliferation of references to goblins and gremlins in the AI's responses. OpenAI points to a culprit: the nerd profile. Goblins and gremlins are invading ChatGPT-5.5 and more generally the various OpenAI models. On social networks, jokes about this keep coming. Sam Altman himself joked about the proliferation of goblins in his models. OpenAI respond

Published on May 2, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada pour 01net Stanford and the Internet Archive measured the scale of the phenomenon. The most troubling result is not what was expected: the web has not become more fake, but more uniform and strangely optimistic. We have been promised for months a "dead internet," overrun by robots talking to other robots. Researchers decided to check. A team from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Inte

Published on May 3, 2026 at 10:02 Commenter 9 𝕏 Print © 01net with Gemini In nine seconds, an AI agent deleted the entire database of an American startup, including backups. The AI, based on Claude, apologized and admitted it was a major mistake. Since a few days, the mishap of Jeremy Crane, founder of the startup PocketOS, has gone viral on the internet. On social media, the leader of the American company, which has specialized in software for car rental

Published on May 4, 2026 at 10:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Tromp Willem van Urk Hollywood has made headlines with its supposed « AI ban ». The reality is much more nuanced, and Europe is about to go much further. Since May 1st, social media has been buzzing: the Academy of Oscars would have banned artificial intelligence in cinema. In reality, the new rules adopted for the 99th ceremony (March 2027) only concern two specific categories. AI-generated performance

Published on May 4, 2026 at 11:11 Commenter 4 𝕏 Print © 01net ChatGPT is experiencing a difficult period. Since the announcement of an agreement between OpenAI and the Pentagon last month, the number of ChatGPT uninstallations has skyrocketed. Many internet users are clearly trying to protest against the use of AI by the military by leaving ChatGPT. According to the data from the analysis company Sensor Tower, this is not just a temporary spike. The app do

Published on May 4, 2026 at 15:24 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Meta Twenty-one consecutive quarters of losses, and Zuckerberg now promises « personal artificial intelligence for billions of people ». The biggest pivot in tech history is being funded with cash. In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta to signal to the world that the future of his company lay in the metaverse. Four and a half years later, the results of the first quarter of 2026 tell

Published on May 5, 2026 at 13:23 Commenter 2 𝕏 Print after dismantling the guardrails of the Biden era, the White House is considering a federal process for validating AI models. A dramatic reversal, driven by a model that even worries its own creator. © Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Trump administration plans to create by executive order a task force dedicated to artificial intelligence. Among the options under consideration: a government oversight pro

Published on May 5, 2026 at 14:32 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Mariia Shalabaieva After Jony Ive's screenless gadget, OpenAI is preparing a real smartphone. With a custom MediaTek processor etched in 2 nm, mass production would target early 2027. OpenAI doesn't want to be content with just being a software provider. According to Taiwanese analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who is already well accustomed to leaks regarding American manufacturers, the company is accelerating th

Published on May 6, 2026 at 08:50 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © lukgehr (Pixabay) Apple is preparing to turn the iPhone into a true AI toolbox. With iOS 27, the Cupertino-based company would allow its users to freely choose their preferred AI, among ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. These models can be used to animate Apple Intelligence functions. This is an unprecedented strategic shift for Apple. Since the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple has relied exclusively on

Published on May 7, 2026 at 17:00 Commenter 2 𝕏 Print © xAI Elon Musk called Anthropic "maleficent" a few weeks ago. His company SpaceX has just entrusted him with the entire datacenter. Business is business. Anthropic announced on Tuesday, May 6, an agreement with SpaceX during its Code With Claude conference in San Francisco. The company will use the entire Colossus 1 datacenter.Over 300 megawatts of additional power and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs (a mix of H10

Published on May 12, 2026 at 12:23 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a platform that leverages its most powerful AI models, including GPT-5.5 and the Codex agent, to analyze thousands of lines of code, detect security vulnerabilities, and generate fixes. Cybersecurity has become one of the main battlefields of artificial intelligence. After Anthropic and its Glasswing project, OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has unveile

Published on May 14, 2026 at 16:42 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada pour 01net Apple has officially defended Google against European projects that would force Android to open up to competing AI assistants. When the two biggest tech rivals team up, it's rarely out of altruism. The scene has something surreal. Apple, the company that has spent the past three years fighting the DMA in European courts, has just submitted an official contribution to the Commissi