Innovation & AI

[ad_1] Microsoft is shaking up its AI playbook again, this time by inviting Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to join the party inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.  Until now, Microsoft’s workplace AI assistant has been almost exclusively powered by OpenAI’s models, but starting today, customers can tap Anthropic’s models for tasks in Researcher…

[ad_1] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to the company blog to unveil a new batch of policies that are less “tech launch hype” and more “parental controls for the AI babysitter.”  The gist: ChatGPT is getting a major attitude adjustment when dealing with anyone under 18. Altman framed it bluntly: “We prioritize safety ahead of…

[ad_1] Character AI is once again in the legal hot seat. A third wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the chatbot app.  This time, it was by the family of 13-year-old Juliana Peralta, who died by suicide after months of private conversations with a bot she had come to rely on for companionship. According…

[ad_1] Oracle just pulled off the tech equivalent of a mic drop. After markets closed yesterday, its stock shot up thanks to whispers of some expensive contracts, and now we know at least one of the names behind the curtain: OpenAI. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sam Altman’s AI empire has agreed to shell…

[ad_1] OpenAI is shuffling its Model Behavior team, a group of about 14 researchers.  According to a memo from chief research officer Mark Chen, the squad will be folded into the larger Post Training team, the group that polishes up models after their raw pre-training binge. The reorg means the Behavior folks will now report…

[ad_1] OpenAI and Microsoft just soft-launched the next chapter in their complicated relationship, announcing that they’ve reached a “nonbinding agreement” on how to keep working together.  Translation: they’re basically engaged but still figuring out the prenup. The headline change? OpenAI wants to morph its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC), a legal structure…

[ad_1] Claude, your friendly neighborhood chatbot, just got a little more human, for better or worse.  The company announced that Claude can now remember details from past conversations without being reminded, a feature rolling out to Team and Enterprise users first.  Until now, Claude’s memory worked like that forgetful friend who insists you re-explain the…

[ad_1] Perplexity is finding out that not everyone’s thrilled about its rise.  This week, Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sued Perplexity, accusing it of copyright infringement, trademark violation, and stealing away precious web traffic. The complaint, filed in New York federal court, paints a picture of Perplexity as a clever-but-rude houseguest: it eats the food (content),…

[ad_1] OpenAI rolled out something new for the coding crowd: GPT-5-Codex, a souped-up version of its AI coding agent that’s designed to think harder, longer, and, if necessary, seven hours straight.  Yes, seven. Imagine your rubber duck debugger, but one that sometimes disappears into the basement to brood over your problem until it re-emerges with…

[ad_1] OpenAI has just dropped its biggest peek yet into how the world is actually using ChatGPT, and spoiler alert, it’s less “falling in love with your chatbot” and more “please help me write this email before my boss notices.” In a paper co-authored with Harvard economist David Deming, OpenAI’s Economic Research team analyzed a…