OpenAI is talking with multiple independent assessors to help grow the number of such companies that have expertise in frontier artificial intelligence safety and can provide effective third-party assessments, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) blog post. OpenAI said this while outlining its...
Meta tested having human contractors handle some calls for the phone-calling feature of its personal artificial intelligence assistant Muse, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing internal company posts and a Meta spokesperson. Meta began this test after some users of Muse reported that companies that...
A shopper looking for a birthday gift for a nephew opens a chat on Crocs.com, asks for ideas, checks whether a size will fit and wants to know how to return it if it doesn’t. Until this year, that meant bouncing between a product page,...
Apple is developing a new health and fitness tracker in response to the growing popularity of Whoop’s wrist-worn device and Oura’s smart ring, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing unnamed sources. Apple’s device would be worn on the wrist and would differ from the Apple...
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot surpassed 400,000 weekly users about a month after its launch, offering an early measure of demand for the company’s push into artificial intelligence agents, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). Grok Bot reached 418,000 weekly users as of Sept. 14, up 24% from...
Anthropic said its new Claude Opus 5.5 represents a “major step up” from Opus 5 and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. “It’s the new leading model, and early testers saw large jumps in performance on their most complex work,”...
Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the round, which could bring in up to...
Google says it wants to help local governments have “civic conversations” with AI’s assistance. The tech giant announced on its blog Tuesday (Sept. 22) that it was supporting the Jigsaw Partner Program, run by a tech incubator housed within Google. Google said its support will...
In a bank’s back office, an employee pulls up a customer’s account on a decades-old terminal, reads the balance and types it into a newer web form to finish the file. The two systems don’t talk to each other. The person in the chair is...