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OpenAI seeking to strike latest deal in its efforts to pay for huge spending on datacentresBusiness live – latest updatesAmazon is in talks to invest more than $10bn (£7.5bn) in OpenAI, in the latest funding deal being struck by the startup behind ChatGPT.If it goes ahead, the market valuation of OpenAI could rise above $500bn, […]
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Earlier this year my four-year-old tried out an AI soft toy for a few days. New research indicates I was right to be creeped outIf you’re thinking about buying your kid a new-fangled AI-powered toy for the holidays, may I kindly suggest you don’t? I’m sure most Guardian readers would be horrified by the very
In my six months of looking for work, I’ve found that from fake ads to AI screening software, the search is more soul-destroying than everAs I apply for yet another job, I look at the company’s website for context. I’ve now read their “what we do” section four or five times, and I have a
AI promises to have far-reaching effects in music-making. While some welcome it as a compositional tool, many have deep concerns. Here are some of your responsesAI-generated music is flooding streaming platforms, and it seems to be here to stay. Last month, three AI songs reached the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts. Jorja Smith’s
Thinking Machines Lab has moved its Tinker training API into general availability and added 3 major capabilities, support for the Kimi K2 Thinking reasoning model, OpenAI compatible sampling, and image input through Qwen3-VL vision language models. For AI engineers, this turns Tinker into a practical way to fine tune frontier models without building distributed training
Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and AmazonThree Democratic US senators announced on Tuesday that they are investigating whether big tech companies are passing the soaring utility costs of “energy-guzzling” data centers on to ordinary Americans. The trio sent letters to the heads of Google, Microsoft,
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Former Tory chancellor tasked with helping ChatGPT owner develop ties with governmentsThe former UK chancellor George Osborne is joining OpenAI to lead the ChatGPT developer’s relationships with governments around the world.He will head a division known internally as OpenAI for Countries, through which the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup works with governments on national-level AI
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A number of videos and images created by artificial intelligence that claim to accurately depict ancient Rome have been circulating online. However, these images are far from historically accurate, says one historian.
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An AI order favors tech, OpenAI chases Google and data centers look beyond EarthHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you from beneath a few inches of snow in New York City. This week in tech: an analysis of the quid pro quo of Donald Trump’s executive order on AI; OpenAI goes
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Social media users have been sharing footage said to come from the surveillance camera in a liquor store that shows a masked bandit who ransacked the place, drank his fill and was then discovered passed out in the store restroom: a raccoon. While the remarkable story did actually take place, the surveillance camera video is
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