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The federal government managed to temporarily ban Anthropic’s latest AI model from being used by foreign nationals and reportedly held up the release of OpenAI’s updated GPT-5.6 Sol for security concerns, but it seems the latest version of Grok must have just skated right through. Grok 4.5, the first release of an AI model under the newly formed SpaceXAI, was made available to the public on Wednesday. Elon Musk’s rocket/social media/AI company claims Grok

OpenAI just dropped a new AI model that’s designed to sound like an actual, human conversation partner—and the company says it marks progress towards building AGI. For years, OpenAI has been investing in the development of AI tools that can speak in humanlike voices. That’s sometimes led to controversy, as when the company debuted a voice assistant that sounded suspiciously similar to Scarlett Johansson. The various shortcomings of AI assistants, meanwhile

Yesterday, OpenAI released its latest voice model, GPT-Live-1. The company called it “a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction.” The full-duplex model allows ChatGPT to talk and listen at the same time, giving the back-and-forth a more conversational flow. It’s designed to be smarter, faster, and more natural. Sounds great! Let’s see how it handles the internet’s one-man voice model red team, TikToker @huskistaken (aka Husk), when

The price of computers, gaming consoles, and even smartphones has gone up this year, all thanks to the AI boom. Now, one of the companies most responsible for that boom is looking back at the good ol’ days, when Nvidia was still best known in the PC gaming world. Nvidia announced on Thursday that it is introducing its first series of “GeForce Trading Cards,” highlighting key moments in the history of its graphics processing units (GPUs). The first set incl

Microdramas have taken the internet by storm, and the previously embattled Character.ai wants a slice of that cake. Microdramas are the telenovelas of the social media age. They are drama-filled and juicy romantic stories often laden with cliches involving forbidden affairs, mafia bosses, and even werewolves. They are filmed vertically and often on a very low budget and short timeline, and posted scene by scene on apps like TikTok or Instagram Reels. This

Meta’s social media platforms are coming under growing legal fire over their allegedly addictive designs. Still, the company can’t seem to stop thinking up new ways to monitor users more closely and embed itself even deeper into their lives. The European Commission this week told Meta to make major changes to Facebook and Instagram that would make them less addictive. Following a two-year investigation, the Commission’s preliminary findings determined that

Music streaming services—like virtually every other corner of the internet—are awash in AI slop, thanks to the rise of cheaply accessible AI tools and a regulatory void. Now, a coalition of organizations representing musicians and record labels is trying to make it easier for listeners to at least know when a song has been generated by an LLM. Led by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic I

Elon Musk’s Grok is easily the most controversial of the big AI chatbots. The trillionaire has tinkered with Grok in ways that have made it spout racist conspiracy theories, call itself MechaHitler, and generate non-consensual naked images of X users. There was even a period when Grok would praise Musk as smarter than Albert Einstein and more fit than LeBron James. With all of the recent controversies in mind, Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act (FO

I don’t know what the world record is for killing bad AI features quickly, but this has to be a competitor. On Tuesday, July 7, Meta released an AI photo generation feature that pulled face data from any public Instagram account by default. It made it to Friday—a little over three days in operation by my count. The model tied to the feature, Muse Image, is still available. Muse Image is the first Image Generator released by Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, a

Pangram is the company behind the most prominent AI text detector tool out there. For that company to release a study looking at how much AI-generated content there is on social media is a little like Charmin releasing a study revealing an epidemic of skid marks. But hear them out anyway. Their findings are both eye-popping and plausible. Pangram’s marquee finding is that 41% of longform LinkedIn posts are “flagged as fully AI-generated,” as is 30% of shor

It’s been previously reported that Apple will be skipping expected variants of its M6 chip and speeding up production of the M7. But the writing on the wall suggests very, very expensive M7 Ultra-powered desktop Macs coming in 2028—and the reason may (not) shock you. Anonymous sources are apparently continuing to inform Bloomberg’s scoop-getter Mark Gurman about Apple disrupting its traditional chip rollout process. M6-powered Apple products don’t even exi

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ particular flavor of AI populism is more reverent at awed about the tech itself—and maybe a little more credulous—than many of his AI-skeptical fans would probably like. Nonetheless, a new poll shows that the broad strokes of his actual proposal for dealing with the economics of AI are overwhelmingly popular, at an astonishing 69% support. His plan, called the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, is sorta like diet nationa

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Reddit forum early this year that the artificial intelligence star was on 'the wrong side of history' when it came to being open about the workings of its technology. OpenAI on Tuesday released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models that can be downloaded for free and altered by users, to challenge similar offerings by US and Chinese competition. The release of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b "open-weight language models"

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine if you could peer into the future of a machine—track its wear and tear, predict when it might fail, and fine-tune its performance—all without touching it. That's the promise of digital twin modeling: a virtual model that evolves and adapts with its real-world doppelganger. Unlike static simulations or 3D models, digital twins—developed using expert knowledge—are constantly updated by live data collected from the ph