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OpenAI announced Thursday that it reached a non-binding agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, on a revised partnership that would allow the startup to convert its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). The transition, should it be cleared by state regulators, could allow OpenAI to raise additional capital from investors and, eventually, become […]

The FTC announced on Thursday that it is launching aninquiryinto seven tech companies that make AI chatbot companion products for minors: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, and xAI. The federal regulator seeks to learn how these companies are evaluating the safety and monetization of chatbot companions, how they try to limit negative impacts on

On Thursday, Box launched its developer conference Boxworks by announcing a new set of AI features, building agentic AI models into the backbone of the company’s products. It’s more product announcements than usual for the conference, reflecting the increasingly fast pace of AI development at the company: Box launched its AI studio last year, followed

One of the headlining features of Apple’s newAirPods Pro 3was the ability to translate incoming audio in real time, but it seems the feature won’t work in the European Union at launch. On itsofficial pagedetailing the features available on iOS 26, the company said EU residents or those with EU Apple IDs won’t be able

The California State Assembly took a big step toward regulating AI on Wednesday night, passingSB 243— a bill that regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users. The legislation passed with bipartisan support and now heads to the state Senate for a final vote Friday. If Governor Gavin Newsom signs the

Perplexity, the AI-powered search startup that compete with Google by providing conversational answers to user queries, has secured $200 million in new capital at a $20 billion valuation,The Information reported. The fresh funding comes just two months after the company raised $100 million at an $18 billion valuation, according toBloomberg’s July report. Since its founding

There’s been great interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its$2 billion in seed fundingand the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In ablog postpublished on Wednesday, Murati’s research lab gave the world its first look into one of its projects: creating AI models with reproducible

Oraclesent its sharessoaring after markets closed yesterdayafter reportingthat it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five years, according toreporting from

YouTubeannouncedon Wednesday that its multi-language audio feature has officially launched after a two-year-long pilot. Now, millions of YouTubers can add dubbing to their videos in different languages, helping them reach a wider global audience. The rollout is expected to happen over the coming weeks. The feature initiallylaunchedas a pilot in 2023, available to a limited

Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon.  Users onGitHubandHacker Newsnoted issues with Claude at around 12:20 ET, with Anthropic releasinga status updateeight minutes later, noting that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI were down.At press time, the company said it had implemented several fixes and was monitoring the results.