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ChatGPT forces education startup Chegg to make massive job cuts
Chegg, the US-based education company, is cutting 22 percent of its workforce—about 250 jobs—as more students turn to free AI tools like ChatGPT, which are replacing traditional educational services.
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ChatGPT now lets users analyze company data through a SharePoint connector
ChatGPT can now access company data through a SharePoint connector. The beta feature is available for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. With the new integration, ChatGPT can analyze and summarize ...
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OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says there is evidence that AI models discover novel insights
Jakub Pachocki, who leads advanced model development at OpenAI, says AI's ability to generate knowledge autonomously marks a turning point for business and research. According to Pachocki, so-called ...
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Lloyd’s insurers launch first AI chatbot error policies
For the first time, insurers in London’s Lloyd’s market are offering dedicated policies that cover damages caused by errors from AI chatbots. The product was developed by Armilla, a Y ...
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LegoGPT generates buildable Lego models from text descriptions
A team at Carnegie Mellon University has introduced LegoGPT, an AI system that generates Lego models from text descriptions. The models aren’t just visually accurate—they can actually be built, either ...
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Microsoft could sacrifice some OpenAI shares - but wants to secure access to AI technology
OpenAI is planning a major overhaul of its corporate structure as it prepares for a possible IPO, but its most important backer, Microsoft, is setting conditions—and the relationship remains tense.
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US Copyright Office says fair use does not cover AI trained on "vast troves of copyrighted works
The US Copyright Office has pushed back against one of the AI industry's most common legal arguments: that training AI models on copyrighted material generally ...
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Soundcloud could train AI models on user data
Soundcloud changed its terms of use in February 2024 to allow uploaded music to be used for AI training. AI copyright activist Ed Newton-Rex spotted the change and ...
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Confident user prompts make LLMs more likely to hallucinate
Many language models are more likely to generate incorrect information when users request concise answers, according to a new benchmark study. The findings suggest a clear pattern: many models are ...
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Stanford researchers find AI agents improve when guided by past successes
A new study from Stanford University finds that AI agents can get much better at solving complex tasks simply by learning from their own successful experiences. So far, building effective AI agents ...
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Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent
Bytedance has introduced Agent TARS, an experimental open-source automation tool that visually processes web pages and interacts with the command line and file system, currently limited to macOS. The ...
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Gemini Flash 2.5 becomes 150 times more expensive for reasoning tasks than Flash 2.0
Reasoning tasks sharply raise AI costs, according to a new analysis by Artificial Analysis. Google's Gemini Flash 2.5 costs 150 times more to run than Flash 2.0, due to using 17 times more tokens and ...