Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI’s latest mind-bending discovery

Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. 

A new study found Grok’s AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions

Third Dimension’s technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian’s reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator.

OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

EXCLUSIVE: How Klara and the Sun warns of a future where humans compete with AI

Taika Waititi and Jenna Ortega’s sci-fi film, Klara and the Sun, offers a chilling warning about AI being used to replace people in a society obsessed with perfection.

Xbox mandates a four-day return to office
Xbox mandates a four-day return to office

Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year, and it’s now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees. An internal memo, seen by The Verge, describes the change as a “need to create more opportunities for people to work together” after feedback from […]

AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

More than 50% of managers say they’re finding it harder to evaluate employees’ work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.