<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about &#8220;white genocide&#8221; in South Africa, even when the user didn&#8217;t ask anything about the subject. The strange responses stem from the X account for Grok, which replies to users [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models in ChatGPT, the company announced in a post on X Wednesday. The GPT-4.1 models should help software engineers who are using ChatGPT to write or debug code, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo told TechCrunch. GPT-4.1 excels at coding and instruction following compared to GPT-4o, according to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SoundCloud says it&#8217;s revising its terms after widespread backlash over a clause related to AI model training. Earlier this year, SoundCloud quietly updated its&nbsp;usage policies, adding wording that many users interpreted as legal cover to allow the company to train AI on audio uploaded to its platform. SoundCloud was quick to assert that it wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is saying is an effort to increase transparency. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched the Safety evaluations hub, a web page showing how the company&#8217;s models score on various tests for harmful content generation, jailbreaks, and hallucinations. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI startup Stability AI has released Stable Audio Open Small, a &#8220;stereo&#8221; audio-generating AI model that the company claims is the fastest on the market — and efficient enough to run on smartphones. Stable Audio Open Small is the fruit of a collaboration between Stability AI and Arm, the chipmaker that produces many of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is reportedly considering building data centers in the United Arab Emirates to greatly expand its Middle East footprint. A deal could be announced as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg. As Bloomberg notes, OpenAI has a long relationship with the UAE. In 2023, the company partnered with Abu Dhabi’s AI firm G42, which [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s AI R&amp;D lab DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle problems with &#8220;machine-gradable&#8221; solutions. In experiments, the system, called AlphaEvolve, could help optimize some of the infrastructure Google uses to train its AI models, DeepMind said. The company says it&#8217;s building a user interface for interacting with AlphaEvolve, and plans [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Gemini, Google&#8217;s AI-powered chatbot, can now connect to GitHub — for users subscribed to the $20-per-month Gemini Advanced plan, that is. As of Wednesday, Gemini Advanced customers can directly add a public or private codebase on GitHub to Gemini to allow the chatbot to generate and explain code, debug existing code, and more. Users can [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprises want access to new software and AI tools but can&#8217;t risk sending their sensitive data out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Tensor9 looks to help software companies land more enterprise customers by helping them deploy their software directly into a customer&#8217;s tech stack. Tensor9 converts a software vendor&#8217;s code into the format needed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said acquiring Neon&#8217;s tech would let it combine the startup&#8217;s serverless relational database management system with its own data intelligence services to let its customers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TensorWave, a data center provider building facilities primarily with AMD hardware, has raised $100 million as it seeks to further build out its data center infrastructure. The funding round was led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, and brings the company&#8217;s total capital raised to $146.7 million, according to Crunchbase. Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Partners, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is testing a redesign of its Search homepage in which &#8220;AI Mode,&#8221; the experimental AI-powered search feature the company rolled out earlier in May, replaces its longstanding &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; button under the Search bar. A company spokesperson confirmed to The Verge, which was the first to report the change, that the feature began [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI safety framework, as noted by watchdog group The&nbsp;Midas Project. xAI isn&#8217;t exactly known for its strong commitments to AI safety as it&#8217;s commonly understood. A recent report found that the company&#8217;s AI chatbot, Grok, would undress photos of women when [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Popular legal AI tool Harvey will now be using leading foundation models from Anthropic and Google, moving beyond strictly using OpenAI&#8217;s, Harvey announced in a blog post on Tuesday. This is noteworthy because Harvey is one of the OpenAI Startup Fund’s most successful early-backed portfolio companies. The OpenAI Startup Fund is an OpenAI-associated fund to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon says it will work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, to invest &#8220;$5 billion-plus&#8221; in a strategic partnership to build an &#8220;AI Zone&#8221; in Saudi Arabia. The AI Zone will include dedicated Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI infrastructure, servers, networks, and training and certification programs, according [&hellip;]</p>

<p>WizardLM, a Beijing-based Microsoft AI research group, appears to have joined Tencent, the Chinese company that owns WeChat and blockbuster games like PUBG Mobile. In a post on X on Tuesday, Can Xu, a senior AI researcher who led a number of projects within WizardLM, said that he and the team left Microsoft to join [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok is launching its first image-to-video AI feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is called &#8220;TikTok AI Alive&#8221; and allows users to turn static photos into videos within TikTok Stories. The feature is only accessible via TikTok&#8217;s Story Camera and uses AI to create short-form videos with &#8220;movement, atmospheric and creative effects,&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>During the Android Show on Tuesday, leading up to Google I/O 2025, Google announced that it&#8217;s bringing Gemini to Wear OS smartwatches and Google TV. The announcement is part of Google&#8217;s plans to replace Google Assistant with Gemini across all of its devices and platforms. Tuesday&#8217;s announcement doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise, as users have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is bringing Gemini, its generative AI, to all cars that support Android Auto in the next few months, the company announced at its Android Show ahead of the company&#8217;s 2025 I/O developer conference. The company says adding Gemini functionality to Android Auto and, later this year, to cars that run Google&#8217;s built-in operating system, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After a week or so of rumors, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) formally rescinded the Biden administration&#8217;s Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule days before it was set to go into effect. The Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule, which was introduced by former president Joe Biden in January and set to come into force on May 15, [&hellip;]</p>