Last year, I noted that OpenAI’s view on copyright is that it’s fine and dandy to copy, paste, and steal people’s work. OpenAI is far from alone. Anthropic, Google, and Meta all trot out the same tired old arguments: AI must be free to use copyrighted material under the legal doctrine of fair use so…
In a move that casts a shadow across Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developer’s Conference, OpenAI has announced that it will purchase io, the AI startup founded by acclaimed former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive, who helped create the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. The deal sees Ive’s hand-picked io team of talented Apple alumni merge with OpenAI. Ive himself stays…
At its annual developer conference, Google presented groundbreaking AI innovations that go far beyond mere product updates. Rather, they outline a future in which artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool, but an omnipresent, proactive companion. Here are the most important new products. Project Astra: the universal AI assistant Project Astra, which has been…
Marking an aggressive push into the professional workstation and high-end desktop (HEDT) segments, AMD has launched its latest high-performance computing processors at Computex 2025. The processors are purpose-built to handle tough workloads such as VFX rendering, scientific simulation, CAD, and AI development for enterprise-grade workstations in industries such as engineering, healthcare, defense, and AI development. With the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series and…
Imagine a chatbot using your PC for you. That’s one of many visions Microsoft showed off at its developer-focused Build 2025 conference on Monday. And the vision, it would seem, is already almost here. Microsoft’s concept revolves around the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which was created by Anthropic (the company behind the Claude chatbot) last…
At the Computex trade show in Taipei, major GPU makers Nvidia, Intel, and AMD shared details about new desktop GPUs that let users run generative AI models locally. Nvidia announced that its DGX Spark desktop (formerly Project DIGITS), a small box that sits on the desktop, will ship in July from top PC makers including…
Artificial intelligence startup Builder.ai, which has financial backing from Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, has filed for insolvency in the UK, the equivalent of seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. A LinkedIn message posted Tuesday by the company, which has raised an estimated $450 million over the past seven years, stated, “today,…
Do you want to make a podcast from notes you record on your iPhone? You can, as Google has introduced an iOS version (and an Android version) of its popular NotebookLM tool, which can do this, among other things. The news follows hot on the heels of speculation that Apple may try to overcome shortcomings in its…
Microsoft writes on its blog that neither Azure nor the company’s AI technology has been used to harm people in Gaza. After allegations surfaced that these Microsoft products were being used by the Israeli military to harm civilians in Gaza, the company conducted internal and external reviews. “We have found no evidence to date that…
Problems, they say, are gifts to help you change. If that’s the case, then Apple has some changing to do, at least when it comes to AI development, which a new Bloomberg report suggests is in crisis. The crisis runs so deep, allegedly, that Apple will introduce no Siri upgrades at WWDC 2025 — and the report…