Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that the company’s forthcoming browser, Comet, will track everything users do online in order to sell hyper-personalized advertisements. Unlike the current Perplexity app, which collects more limited data, the Comet browser will monitor a user’s … Read More
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This tool estimates how much electricity your chatbot messages consume
Hugging Face engineer Julien Delavande has created a new tool that estimates the real-time electricity consumption of chatbot interactions, offering users an accessible way to understand the energy demands of AI messaging. The tool is integrated into the open-source Chat … Read More
ChatGPT search is growing quickly in Europe, OpenAI data suggests
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search has experienced a sharp rise in popularity across Europe, with average monthly active users growing from 11.2 million in October 2024 to 41.3 million by March 2025. This rapid adoption highlights increasing European interest in AI-powered search … Read More
OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
OpenAI’s new reasoning-focused AI models, o3 and o4-mini, offer advancements in complex problem-solving tasks like math and code generation, but they come with a major drawback: significantly higher rates of hallucinations. In a benchmark test using PersonQA—a dataset designed to … Read More
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week
OpenAI is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire Windsurf—an AI-powered coding assistant previously known as Codeium—for approximately $3 billion. If finalized, this would represent OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and a significant move into the growing market for AI developer … Read More
Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business
Anthropic has formed a new team dedicated to accelerating the adoption of its AI services among Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. This initiative is part of its broader effort to deepen its partnership with Amazon, which has committed up to … Read More
Nvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the US
Nvidia has unveiled plans to manufacture some of its AI chips and supercomputers within the United States, marking a major shift in its production strategy. The company is commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing and testing facilities in … Read More
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has launched an API for its latest large language model, Grok 3, making it available for developers and businesses to integrate into their own applications. The release includes both the full Grok 3 and a … Read More
MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values
A recent MIT study challenges the belief that AI models possess values or stable preferences, revealing instead that their behavior is largely inconsistent and context-dependent. Contrary to popular claims that advanced AI could develop its own “value systems, ” the … Read More
Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most expensive AI model yet
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, the company’s most expensive AI model to date, is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens for prompts up to 200,000 tokens. For longer prompts, exceeding 200,000 tokens, the price … Read More