<p>As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb. Announced at Build 2025, NLWeb lets websites provide a &#8220;conversational interface&#8221; — i.e. a text field and a submission button — for their users with a few lines of code, the AI model [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II by saying that “historical records, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Trump administration and congressional officials are scrutinizing a deal between Apple and Alibaba that would bring Alibaba-powered AI features to iPhones sold in China, according to The New York Times. Citing anonymous sources, the NYT says White House officials and members of the House Select Committee on China have asked Apple executives directly about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore. That tidbit comes toward the end of a longer Bloomberg profile of Nadella, with a focus on Microsoft’s AI strategy and its complicated relationship with OpenAI. To illustrate how much he uses the company’s Copilot AI assistant [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper on how artificial intelligence affects research and innovation, the paper should be “withdrawn from public discourse.” The paper in question, “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation,” was written by a doctoral student in the university’s economics program. It claimed to show [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn&#8217;t go as planned.</p>

<p>OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world&#8217;s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new Bloomberg report. The facility would reportedly span an astonishing 10 square miles and consume power equivalent [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omar, one of the founders of Ottogrid, announced the deal Friday in a post on X. He didn&#8217;t disclose the terms. Ottogrid will sunset its product, according to Omar, but will give customers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new funding, the company has raised more, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing, submitted Thursday, reveals that Moonvalley actually landed (so far) around $53 million total from a group of 14 unnamed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI announced on Friday it&#8217;s launching a research preview of Codex, the company&#8217;s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company&#8217;s o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. OpenAI says codex-1 produces &#8220;cleaner&#8221; code than o3, adheres more precisely to instructions, and will iteratively run [&hellip;]</p>

<p>xAI blamed an &#8220;unauthorized modification&#8221; for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to &#8220;white genocide in South Africa&#8221; when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.  When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he eventually wants the model to document and remember everything in a person’s life. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini — to be optimized for the &#8220;entire software engineering process,&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The morning after Elon Musk&#8217;s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company&#8217;s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer &#8220;Rahul Ligma.&#8221;&nbsp; His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral. While he never worked for X, he is actually very much a techy. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI.</p>

<p>A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company&#8217;s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. Claude hallucinated the citation with &#8220;an inaccurate title and inaccurate authors,&#8221; Anthropic says in the filing, first reported [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced on Thursday that it&#8217;s rolling out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome. Most notably, TalkBack, Android’s screen reader, now lets you ask Gemini about what&#8217;s in images and what&#8217;s on your screen. Last year, Google brought Gemini&#8217;s capabilities to TalkBack to give people who are blind or have low vision [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chips are a critical component of the AI industry. But new chips don&#8217;t hit the market with the same speed as new AI models and products. Cognichip has a lofty goal of creating a foundational AI model that can help bring new chips to market faster. San Francisco-based Cognichip is working to build a physics-informed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hedra, which offers a video generation and editing suite powered by its Character-3 model, has raised $32M.</p>

<p>Harvey AI is in discussions to raise more than $250 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue that would value it at $5 billion, Reuters reported</p>