Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.
Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming. Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI …

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time […]

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it’s time to make everyone slow down before we lose control – including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X […]

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a […]

What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we’ve compiled some of […]

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to “pace the frontier” and slow down AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet’s Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei’s proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, […]

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

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The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban
The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban

The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule …

Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

April – 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]