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AMD debuts AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerator chips with 35X better inferencing

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-17 15:30:00

AMD unveiled its comprehensive end-to-end integrated AI platform vision and introduced its open, scalable rack-scale AI infrastructure built on industry standards at its annual Advancing AI event. The Santa Clara, California-based chip maker announced its new AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, which are four times faster on AI compute and 35 times faster on inferencing than prior chips. AMD and its partners showcased AMD Instinct-based products and the continued growth of the AMD ROCm eco

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At Least One ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Star Won’t Be Back for the Spinoff

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-17 15:15:34

With The Handmaid’s Tale wrapping up after six seasons, fans are now looking forward to sequel series The Testaments. It will have a new cast aside from Ann Dowd’s returning Aunt Lydia, but the creative forces behind both shows teased earlier this week that some other familiar faces could return. One that will not, however: Samira Wiley’s Moira. This comes from the actress herself, who admitted in a new interview that she’s quite ready to move on. “I wish I could tease and say ‘maybe,’ but that

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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toymaking, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-17 13:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toymaker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-17 19:14:38

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty In his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Singularity -- the moment in which machine intelligence surpasses our own -- would occur around the year 2045. Sam Altman believes it's much closer. In a blog post published Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO delivered a homily devoted to what he views as the imminent arrival of artificial "superintelligence." Whereas artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is usually defined as a computer

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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toy-making, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-17 23:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toy-maker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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First PS3 emulator hits the Play Store, goes open-source (kind of)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 23:36:51

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR PS3 emulator aPS3e is now available on the Google Play Store. From the mysterious Chinese developer aenu, it’s based on the RPCS3 source code. The project now proclaims to be open-source, but may not be meeting requirements. It’s been a few months since the first PS3 emulator launched on Android, and what a busy few months it’s been. The sudden appearance (and disappearance) of aPS3e brought forth a renewed interest in PS3 emulation on Android, with o

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OpenAI will reportedly start using Google's cloud servers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-17 10:23:12

This is another move by the company to diversify its compute portfolio beyond Microsoft Azure. OpenAI has inked a deal with Google to begin using the latter's cloud service to meet its growing needs for increased computing capacity, according to a report by Reuters . This is something of a surprise, given that Google and OpenAI are rivals in the AI space. The terms of the deal remain unknown, but reporting indicates it has been in the negotiation phase for the past several months. This marks O

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Amazon to invest $20 billion in AI data centers across Pennsylvania

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-18 23:05:00

What just happened? Amazon Web Services, one of the world's three largest cloud providers, is increasingly focused on artificial intelligence and large language models. The company is now planning a significant expansion of its AI infrastructure initiatives in Pennsylvania. Amazon has announced plans to invest at least $20 billion in new cloud computing facilities across Pennsylvania. The tech giant, founded by Jeff Bezos, says the move reflects its commitment to advancing artificial intelligen

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ChatGPT outage: OpenAI reports 'elevated error rates' for several hours

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-09-18 00:20:14

ChatGPT was down for some users on Tuesday, with nearly 2,000 outage reports on Downdetector, a site that logs user reports of internet issues. OpenAI said there was a full recovery in the API at 3:24 p.m. EDT but the status still showed a "degraded performance." "We are monitoring and working towards a full recovery of ChatGPT," the status update said. The artificial intelligence chatbot gave some users a "Too many concurrent requests" message, or would not answer questions. The OpenAI stat

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Investment CEO Tells Convention Audience That 60 Percent of Them Will Be Unemployed Next Year Due to AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 20:10:08

Although hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into AI development, nearly 75 percent of businesses have failed to deliver the return on investment promised to them. The hyped up tech is notoriously buggy and in some ways now actually getting worse, with project failure rates on the rise. Despite staring into the maw of a colossal money pit, tech CEOs are doubling down, announcing plans to increase spending on AI development, going as far as laying off armies of workers to cut down o

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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-19 00:36:49

In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cool, analytical current of AI scholarship, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the boiling-hot torrent of commercial AI — excited, frenetic, gushing with utopian promises. As AI hype blasts off into the heavens, one notable tech critic asks an important question: which of these streams should drive AI development? Yesterday, neural scientist, AI scholar and outspoken OpenAI critic Gary Marcus

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Apple's latest entry-level iPad is back on sale for $299

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-17 18:59:41

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Looking for a budget-friendly iPad you can use for everyday tasks, like catching up on emails and messages, then reading the latest news before streaming a show? This might be the deal for you. The A16-powered iPad (a model that Apple released just a few months ago) has dipped to $299.

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The USB-C Apple Pencil is on sale for $60 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-18 19:16:30

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The USB-C Apple Pencil is on sale via Woot for just $60 . This is a discount of 24 percent and a record low price, as it typically costs $79. This serves as the company's "budget" stylus and was originally released at the tail-end of 2023 . Despite being the most reasonably priced App

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ChatGPT o3 API 80% price drop has no impact on performance

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-19 04:06:33

ChatGPT o3 API is now cheaper for developers, and there's no visible impact on performance. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced it's cutting the price of its best reasoning model, o3, by 80%. ChatGPT price reduction This means o3’s input price is now just $2 per million tokens, while the output price has dropped to $8 per million tokens. "We optimized our inference stack that serves o3. Same exact model—just cheaper," OpenAI noted in a post on X. While regular users typically don't use ChatGPT m

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Why OpenAI and Google's surprising new alliance makes a lot of AI sense

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-18 21:50:40

MF3d/Getty Images In geopolitics, nations with conflicting societal norms or ideological views must occasionally form alliances in the interest of protecting their mutual interests; practicality must take precedence over past rivalries. Today, a similar dynamic is starting to play out in the AI arms race. OpenAI, the AI start-up that skyrocketed to global fame following the viral success of its ChatGPT chatbot, has teamed up with Google, its longtime competitor, according to a Reuters report.

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ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 21:38:00

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "

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OpenAI Launches Improved Version of Latest Reasoning Model. Here's What It's Best For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 00:16:47

OpenAI this week announced an improved version of its o3 generative AI reasoning model, saying it performed better on benchmarks and is designed to spend more time thinking on difficult problems. The new model, called o3-pro, is now available for Pro and Team users in ChatGPT and API users, and will come to Enterprise and Edu users next week. In its release notes, OpenAI said the model is similar to o1-pro, which users favored for its math, science and coding skills. It incorporates improvement

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U.S. Open 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 03:00:03

The 125th US Open takes place this weekend, with Bryson DeChambeau looking to clinch the title for a third time at the Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. The third of the year's majors, sees a 156-man field take on the course's notoriously lightning-fast, sloped greens and its punishing 175

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Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-17 04:22:26

Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of new features and upgrades at WWDC. The company also premiered the Foundation Models framework, a way for developers to write code that taps into Apple’s AI models. Among the buzzier AI announcements at the event was Live Translation, a feature that translates phone and FaceTime calls from one language to another in real time. Appl

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ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-18 20:30:00

Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. In a blog post, Adler describes a series of experiments he ran on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model, the default model available in ChatGPT, to test the AI’s tendency to favor its own self-preservation, even if it’s at the expense of a user’s safety. In one test, Adler instructed GPT-4

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Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-19 00:40:15

In Brief Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday. The funding round included angel investors Sam Altman and Max Altman, both returning investors, in addition to VC firms like Pelion Venture Partners and Offline Ventures, among others. This brings the company’s total funding to more than $120 million. The company last raised a $36 million Series A round in 2021. Coco’s zero-emissions robots can hold 90 liters’

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What's Behind OpenAI's Recent Growth Spurt to 400M Weekly Users?

cnet.com Omar Gallaga 2025-06-03 19:59:00

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says more than 400 million people a week are now actively using its artificial intelligence tools, a jump from the 300 million it reported this past December. OpenAI touted the figure this week, also telling media outlets that it's doubled its number of paid enterprise users to 2 million since September, and that its developer traffic has also doubled in the last six months. The news may surprise people who expected the rise of China's DeepSeek AI model to disrupt the grow

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Scientists spent 10 years on a superbug mystery - Google's AI solved it in 48 hours

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2025-06-03 18:22:00

What just happened? Researchers at Imperial College London say an artificial intelligence-based science tool created by Google needed just 48 hours to solve a problem that took them roughly a decade to answer and verify on their own. The tool in question is called "co-scientist" and the problem they presented it with was straightforward enough: why are some superbugs resistant to antibiotics? Professor José R Penadés told the BBC that Google's tool reached the same hypothesis that his team had

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How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

cnbc.com Jasmine Wu Deirdre Bosa 2025-06-03 13:00:01

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than American ones. But the underlying fears and breakthroughs that sparked the selling go much deeper than one AI startup. Silicon Valley is now reckoning with a technique in AI development called distillation, one that could upend the AI leaderboard. Distillation is a process of extracting knowledge

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ChatGPT’s weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-03 19:55:19

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition. More people are adopting ChatGPT through word of mouth, with personal use driving its continued growth. OpenAI’s enterprise business is also expanding, now with 2 million paying users as companies integrate AI into their workflows. The AI chatbot battle continues to reshape the tech landscape, but OpenAI — the company behind ChatGP

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OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-03 21:04:51

OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday . The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest was designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. The operation appears to have been particularly interested in spotting call

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Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-06-03 19:22:40

In Brief OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial backers. That represents a major shift away from Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest shareholder, who fulfills most of the startup’s power needs today. The change w

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ChatGPT's AI agent Operator is now available for most Pro users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-03 18:30:50

It's now out for most regions where ChatGPT is also available, though the EU isn't included. Operator is now out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK and most places where ChatGPT is also available, OpenAI has announced. The company launched Operator in the US back in January, introducing it as an "agent that can go to the web to perform tasks" for the user. Operator can handle various browser-based tasks for users, such as filling out forms, making restaur

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DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-03 20:50:45

Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is preparing to make the underlying code behind that model more accessible, promising to release five open source repos starting next week. In a social media post late Thursday, DeepSeek said the daily releases it is planning for its "Open Source Week" would provide visibility into "these humble building bl

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DeepSeek to open source parts of online services code

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-06-03 19:36:46

In Brief Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open source five code repositories that have been “documented, deployed and battle-tested in production,” the company said in a post on X on Thursday. Code repositories are storage locations for software development assets, and typically contain source code as well as configuration files and project documentation. “As part of the open-sou

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AMD debuts AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerator chips with 35X better inferencing

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