Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart
OpenAI’s deal to acquire the viral AI coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion fell apart on Friday, according to The Verge. In a shocking twist, Google DeepMind is now hiring…
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Meta and OpenAI’s ugly AI brain race tickles the internet
Talent poaching doesn’t often go viral, but this story has all the right ingredients: Meta, OpenAI, and $100 million signing bonuses. Meta has been aggressively pursuing AI talent from top…
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o3-pro may be OpenAI’s most advanced commercial offering, but GPT-4o bests it
Unlike general-purpose large language models (LLMs), more specialized reasoning models break complex problems into steps that they ‘reason’ about, and show their work in a chain of thought (CoT) process….
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Bing adds OpenAI’s Sora video generator – and it’s free
Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Turning text into videos is one of the latest AI skills creating a buzz. And Microsoft is offering a free way to transform your ideas into…
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What OpenAI’s restructuring plan means for its corporate future
OpenAI said on Monday it is pursuing a new restructuring plan after conversations with Delaware and California’s attorneys general, both of whom were closely watching as OpenAI tried to break…
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OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than…
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OpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially implied
A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparency and model testing practices. When OpenAI unveiled o3 in December,…
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Musk may still have a chance to thwart OpenAI’s for-profit conversion
Elon Musk lost the latest battle in his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, but a federal judge appears to have given Musk — and others who oppose OpenAI’s for-profit conversion…
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Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge…
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Remember the Legal Research ‘AI Smackdown’? I Decided To Bring OpenAI’s Deep Research to the Fight
Recently, I wrote here about the AI Smackdown presented at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on…
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How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans
OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT keeps expanding with new features. The chatbot’s memory feature lets you save preferences so that chats are more tailored to you. ChatGPT also has an…
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3 genius side hustles you can start with OpenAI’s Operator right now
ZDNET OpenAI recently announced Operator, an AI agent designed to perform tasks on the web. After testing it (yes, I paid the $200 bucks, but, more importantly, I kept the…
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Today’s Experiment with OpenAI’s Deep Research: Picking the Best Cloud-Based Law Practice Management Software for a Small Law Firm
As I noted yesterday, over the weekend, OpenAI released Deep Research, an AI agent capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information. The company says Deep…
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What Is OpenAI’s Powerful New Deep Research Tool Capable Of? I Use It to Analyze the Legality of President Trump’s Pause of Federal Grants
Over the weekend, OpenAI released Deep Research, an AI agent capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information. OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil said…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT adds scheduled tasks feature in beta
OpenAI is launching a new beta feature in ChatGPT called Tasks that lets users schedule future actions and reminders. The feature, which is rolling out to Plus, Team, and Pro…
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OpenAI’s o3 isn’t AGI yet but it just did something no other AI has done
Sam Altman and deputies at OpenAI discuss the performance of the new o3 model on the ARC-AGI test. OpenAI/ZDNET The latest large language model from OpenAI isn’t yet in the…
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Video model Sora drops on day 3 of OpenAI’s 12 days of products and demos
Screenshot by David Grober/ZDNET With the holiday season upon us, many companies are finding ways to take advantage through deals, promotions, or other campaigns. OpenAI has found a way to…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman had an AMA on Reddit: 5 takeaways about ChatGPT and more
OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman had a busy day on Thursday. After launching ChatGPT Search, a new search engine feature that connects ChatGPT to real-time information, Altman and other OpenAI…
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Professor Shubha Ghosh, director of the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute, spoke with TechCrunch about OpenAI’s recent statement not to use its patents offensively. Ghosh noted that it isn’t clear…
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AI Update: AI In Legal Ed, Suing Copilot, OpenAI’s Unique Investment Deals
Law schools must acknowledge and respond to the rise of AI in the legal industry by incorporating relevant training into their curricula, argues research fellow and assistant director of the…
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