This week, I’m dedicating the newsletter to a conversation I had recently with the futurist Zack Kass about some of the risks and myths that will come with the advent of AI across business and society. Kass, who was head of go-to-market at OpenAI, is the author of the upcoming book, The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential.

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we're now in the "second era of scaling laws," noting how established methods of improving AI

OpenAI has extended its full support to the family of former researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. Balaji had previously raised concerns about the company's use of copyrighted content for training AI models.

OpenAI's challenges in 2024 will shape the future of AI, setting precedence for AI regulation, AI governance and usage of data to train AI models.

The latest AI model from OpenAI achieved an “impressive leap in performance” but it still hasn’t demonstrated what experts classify as human-level intelligence

A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.

"Microsoft eyes non-OpenAI tech to diversify 365 Copilot’s AI models-report " was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand.

Sam Altman finished the OpenAI "12 days of shipmas" with a reveal of ChatGPT o3 and a new method called deliberative alignment. Here's the big deal on this new technique.

The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

OpenAI’s latest o3 model has achieved a breakthrough that has surprised the AI research community. o3 scored an unprecedented 75.7% on the super-difficult ARC-AGI benchmark under standard compute conditions, with a high-compute version reaching 87.5%.