An AI assistant that unequivocally agrees with everything you say and supports you — even your most outlandish and obviously false, misguided or straight-up bad ideas — sounds like something out of a cautionary sci-fi short story from Philip K. Dick. But it appears to be the reality for a number of users of OpenAI’s hit chatbot ChatGPT, specifically for interactions with the underlying…
Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the…
January 2025 shook the AI landscape. The seemingly unstoppable OpenAI and the powerful American tech giants were shocked by what we can certainly call an underdog in the area of large language models (LLMs). DeepSeek, a Chinese firm not on anyone’s radar, suddenly…
Ziff Davis and IGN sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
April 28, 2025
In one of the more common disputes of modern AI, Ziff Davis, IGN Entertainment and Everyday Health Media have sued Open AI for copyright infringement.
The lawsuit from the media companies alleged copyright infringement, violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unjust enrichment and trademark dilution. IGN and Everyday Health Media are divisions of Ziff Davis.
Ziff Davis alleged…
In my first stint as a machine learning (ML) product manager, a simple question inspired passionate debates across functions and leaders: How do we know if this product is actually working? The product in question that I managed catered to both internal and external…
OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s image generation available as API
April 24, 2025
People can now natively incorporate Studio Ghibli-inspired pictures generated by ChatGPT into their businesses. OpenAI has added the model behind its wildly popular image generation tool, used in ChatGPT, to its API.
The gpt-image-1 model will allow developers and…
Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGEN
April 24, 2025
2025 was, by many expert accounts, supposed to be the year of AI agents — task-specific AI implementations powered by leading large language and multimodal models (LLMs) like the kinds offered by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek.
But so far, most AI agents remain stuck as experimental pilots in a kind of corporate purgatory, according to a recent poll conducted by VentureBeat on the…
Google continues to bring its flagship AI models to its productivity apps, expanding its Gemini features.
The company today announced several updates to its Workspace products, including the addition of Audio Overviews and new streamlined methods for tracking meetings.
Audio…
Researchers from Stanford University and Google DeepMind have unveiled Step-Wise Reinforcement Learning (SWiRL), a technique designed to enhance the ability of large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and tool use.
As the interest…
Coding with the help of AI models continues to gain popularity, but many have highlighted issues that arise when developers rely on coding assistants.
However, researchers from MIT, McGill University, ETH Zurich, Johns Hopkins University, Yale and the Mila-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute have developed a new method for ensuring that AI-generated codes are more accurate and useful. This…
