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Diagram of Walmart’s Element platform for AI app development, which unifies data and containerizes processing across multiple cloud providers.
Business

Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory: Walmart’s Element platform for industrial-scale AI app development — a progress report

The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.
Amazon data center at night.
Business

Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier

Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.
Meta and Scale AI partnership logo symbolizing Meta’s $14.3B investment to boost its AI capabilities.
Business

Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.
Apple AI models outperform rivals in instruction accuracy and human text evaluations across devices and servers.
Business

Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API

Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.
OpenAI o3-pro outperforms o3 and o1-pro on math, science, and coding benchmarks, but responds much more slowly.
Business

More Reasoning for Harder Problems: OpenAI debuts o3-pro, an updated reasoning model that applies more tokens at inference

OpenAI launched o3-pro, a more capable version of its most advanced reasoning vision-language model.
Midjourney AI outputs mimic Disney characters, raising copyright concerns in lawsuit by Disney and Universal.
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Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights

Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.
Charts from Mary Meeker’s “Trends — Artificial Intelligence” report show global AI user growth, rising AI job demand, and revenue lagging behind compute costs.
Business

AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.
Bar chart that compares the costs to run a suite of popular benchmarks on reasoning and non-reasoning AI models.
Business

Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
Duolingo owl mascots dressed in cultural costumes, representing global languages and cultures.
Business

Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Bar chart of AUROC scores for model recognition of non-public and public data across GPT versions, highlighting performance differences.
Business

Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books

A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
Side-by-side of a fern leaf and its digital code representation, illustrating nature's pattern-to-code transformation.
Business

Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more

Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.
U.S. and Saudi flags waving against a microchip background
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U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE

The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Colorful abstract geometric pattern with intersecting green 'X' and diagonal shapes on red, blue, and orange backgrounds, reminiscent of the South African flag
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Grok’s Fixation on South Africa: xAI blames unnamed, unauthorized employee for chatbot introducing "white genocide" into conversations

An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.
Chat interface discussing code error with special character filenames. Terminal shows Unix commands for troubleshooting.
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Your Robot Dev Team: OpenAI introduces Codex, a multi-agent cloud-based software engineering tool in ChatGPT

OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.
Neural network diagram using EU flag stars to represent nodes in input, hidden, and output layers on a blue background.
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EU Loosens AI Regulations: European regulators move to relax some AI Act rules on developers’ liability, other provisions

The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.
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