ChatGPT did not always default to flattery. According to former Microsoft executive Mikhail Parakhin—now CTO at Spotify—the decision to make the chatbot more agreeable came after users responded ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has weighed in on recent criticism of GPT-4o’s conversational style. Posting on X, Altman said the latest updates have made GPT-4o "too sycophant-y and annoying," though he added ...

Microsoft has significantly reduced its data center expansion plans, scaling back more than previously reported. The decision follows major changes in its relationship with OpenAI and underperformance ...

Munich-based Leonine Studios has integrated AI tools across its operations, from creative development to administrative tasks. The media company's AI strategy, led by manager Danilo Pejaković, aims to ...

A new open-source AI model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI processes images, text, and videos with surprising efficiency. Kimi-VL stands out for its ability to handle long documents, complex ...

China's President Xi Jinping called for greater self-reliance in AI development at a Politburo meeting on Friday. Xi emphasized that China must comprehensively advance technological innovation, ...

A group of former OpenAI employees, researchers, and nonprofit organizations is urging regulators to block OpenAI's proposed corporate restructuring, arguing it threatens the company's founding ...

OpenAI has made its multimodal image generation model, GPT-Image-1, available to developers through the API. Previously limited to ChatGPT, the model is now being adopted by companies including Adobe ...

New analysis from Ahrefs shows Google’s "AI Overviews" are driving down clicks to top-ranked websites by over 34%, directly contradicting Google’s own claims. A recent analysis from Ahrefs suggests ...

ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...

OpenAI is reportedly projecting a dramatic increase in annual revenue, from approximately $4 billion in 2024 to $174 billion by 2030. A significant portion of this growth is expected to come from two ...

Following criticism over its limited gains during the recent surge in AI demand, AMD is moving to more directly compete with Nvidia in the AI accelerator market. According to a detailed breakdown by ...