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2 weeks ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
oxygen/Getty ImagesOpenAI is officially getting into the hardware business. In a video posted to X on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive, who worked on flagship products like the iPhone, revealed a partnership to create the next generation of AI-enabled devices.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Radhika Rajkumar
NowiPhone designer Jony Ive will join OpenAI to build AI-powered devicesIve’s design firm is already working on products for OpenAI, as the company seeks to become a major consumer brand.
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2 weeks ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
MirageC/Getty ImagesGemini 2.5, Google's most advanced model family, is getting upgrades across the board. On Tuesday at Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference, Google announced Deep Think, an "enhanced" reasoning mode for Gemini 2.5 Pro that shows "incredible" skill at complex math and coding. The company also announced improvements to Pro as well as Gemini 2.5 Flash, the second of its "most intelligent" models. Here's what's new.
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2 weeks ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
smirkdingo/Getty ImagesAs AI agent fever spreads, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), an AI data connection standard created by Anthropic last year, is growing -- and Microsoft is the latest to join in, emphasizing security. Also: What is Model Context Protocol?
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1 month ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
Jason Redmond / Getty ImagesIn a somewhat unexpected move, OpenAI is evolving its company structure -- and not necessarily toward profit. OpenAI LLC is the for-profit arm of the organization that runs products like ChatGPT. OpenAI Inc is the nonprofit arm that owns OpenAI LLC. On Monday, the company announced that OpenAI LLC would transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), with OpenAI Inc maintaining control as its largest shareholder.
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1 month ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
MirageC/Getty ImagesMultimodal AI, which can ingest content in non-text formats like audio and images, has leveled up the data that large language models (LLMs) can parse. However, new research from security specialist Enkrypt AI suggests these models are also more susceptible to novel jailbreak techniques.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Radhika Rajkumar
NowBy seeing AI's version of my older self, would I be more likely to turn to Botox or more natural aging treatments? There's nothing more attractive than someone who wears their age well. Society idolizes youth and normalizes young people getting preventative treatments to "stay young," but some argue …
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1 month ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
Didem Mente/Anadolu via Getty ImagesLate last week, OpenAI updated GPT-4o, the primary model behind its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. But it is already being recalled. Also: Anthropic finds alarming 'emerging trends' in Claude misuse reportOn Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman announced via an X post that OpenAI "started rolling back" the update due to user complaints about its responses.
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1 month ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
DrAfter123/Getty ImagesOn Wednesday, Anthropic released a report detailing how Claude was misused during March. It revealed some surprising and novel trends in how threat actors and chatbot abuse are evolving and the increasing risks that generative AI poses, even with proper safety testing.
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1 month ago | 
zdnet.com | Radhika Rajkumar
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETAI systems require a lot of energy to function, but no one has exact numbers, especially not for individual chatbot queries. To address this, an engineer at Hugging Face built a tool to try to find out. Also: The top 20 AI tools of 2025 - and the #1 thing to remember when you use themThe language surrounding AI infrastructure, much of which emphasizes "the cloud" and other air-themed metaphors, can obscure the fact that it relies on energy-hungry computers.
