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OpenAI says its latest GPT-4o model is ‘medium’ risk The startup released a safety assessment. theverge.com/2024/8/8/242161…

ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3 DALL-E 3 launched last year as a feature for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. theverge.com/2024/8/8/242163…

‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions Some pre-prompt instructions for Apple’s upcoming AI features are stored on your Mac, saying ‘do not hallucinate’ and to avoid ‘negative’ themes. theverge.com/2024/8/5/242138…

OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught Some ChatGPT users said they’d use ChatGPT less if it included watermarks. theverge.com/2024/8/4/242132…

Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw The company’s next big AI chip may not ship in large numbers until next year, reports The Information. theverge.com/2024/8/3/242125…

TikTok is one of Microsoft’s biggest AI cloud computing customers TikTok was paying Microsoft almost $20 million per month to access OpenAI’s models as of March, according to The Information. theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210…

Meta’s future is AI, AI, and more AI Meta’s business is continuing to print money even as it spends heavily on AI. That and other notes from today’s earnings call. theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210…

Watch ChatGPT’s new voice mode sing, mimic accents, and correct pronunciation Clips show the chatbot telling stories as an airline pilot and even laughing at its own Turkish-language jokes. theverge.com/2024/8/1/242110…

AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech How do you decide if AI is ‘worth’ the energy? theverge.com/24211177/ai-cli…

Your new AI Friend is almost ready to meet you A new AI startup isn’t trying to help you get things done or remember everything. It’s trying to be there for you all the time, however you need it. theverge.com/2024/7/30/24207…

In search of the perfect movie recommendation If AI can learn everything about everything, can it tell me what to watch on Netflix tonight? theverge.com/2024/7/28/24206…

The AI race’s biggest shift yet With open source driving the cost of AI models down, attention is turning to the products they power. theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206…

OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine The Google and Perplexity rival will be available as a prototype in limited release, with plans to eventually build it into ChatGPT. theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205…

The all-seeing AI webcam On The Vergecast: selfie surveillance, DIY jaywalk detectors, and the artwork of one man with questions about AI. theverge.com/24199020/ai-art…

Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos A spreadsheet obtained by 404 Media shows a massive training dataset that includes videos from Netflix, Nintendo, Linus Tech Tips, and even The Verge. theverge.com/2024/7/25/24206…

OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model The new model, called GPT-4o Mini, launches today. theverge.com/2024/7/18/24200…

The biggest names in AI have teamed up to promote AI security Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others are joining the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) to share info on making ‘secure-by-design’ AI. theverge.com/2024/7/18/24201…

Google’s Gemini AI will be all over the Paris Olympics broadcast Google Maps Immersive Views, AI Overviews, and even Circle to Search will pop up on the 2024 Olympics feed from NBC. theverge.com/2024/7/18/24201…

The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion Fei-Fei Li’s company, called World Labs, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Radical Ventures. theverge.com/2024/7/17/24200…

Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU Meta says the European regulatory environment is too ‘unpredictable.’ theverge.com/2024/7/18/24201…