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Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.
Nokia’s AI-RAN platform arrived on July 15 with a claim worth examining: that it is the industry’s first. The vendor says the platform, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA’s Aerial system, will let operators pull far more capacity from the spectrum they already own, and it has framed the launch as one of the most significant […] The post Nokia’s AI-RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA appeared first on AI News.
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.
