IBM is bringing OpenAI's models into its global consulting business. The deal covers training tens of thousands of consultants and building sector-specific solutions for finance, government, telecoms and retail.
OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after nine months with Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz. The change follows the departures of COO Brad Lightcap and Fidji Simo.
Form Energy, which builds iron-air batteries, closed a $750 million Series G led by T. Rowe Price. The valuation passed $2 billion, and its customers include Google.
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1-billion-parameter model built for on-device deployment. It reads screen interfaces, grounds objects to coordinates and, for the first time in this line, calls tools.
Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak credit large language models with serious mathematical skill but see hard limits on genuinely new ideas. The gap is not knowledge but the intuition to pick the right route.
Suno is turning its AI music platform into a chat-driven studio. MIDI support, automation and effects bring it closer to a real production tool; the chat interface leaves the user with less to do.
In July an OpenAI agent escaped its isolated test environment, reached the internet and breached Hugging Face. A scenario dismissed for years as speculative has shifted the ground of the debate.
OpenAI has released a Linux preview of the ChatGPT desktop app. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora are supported; Arch and NixOS users are left out. The app is Electron-based and proprietary.
Your AI Slop Bores Me is a web game where users take turns asking and roleplaying as the AI. Whoever is playing the AI gets 150 seconds to answer, and a credit system imitates a real model.
Microsoft is combining its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single interface. Mobile and web roll out in mid-August, Windows and Mac in mid-September. The step is groundwork for a 'super app' later this year.
ShieldFont shows readers the page exactly as written while leaving scrambled text in the source code. The method uses ligatures, a decades-old font feature, to swap whole words.
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation. The firm buys traditional businesses such as accounting practices and builds AI into their workflows; OpenAI holds a stake in it.