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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report highlights how Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is outperforming Western benchmarks with a research team that is almost entirely China-based—and what that means for the US’s position in global ...

OpenAI has been developing reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) since last December, and it is now available for verified organizations using the o4-mini model. RFT uses a programmable evaluation system, ...

Google is now using AI models to protect Chrome users from online scams. On desktop, the company has rolled out its local Gemini Nano language model to quickly spot fraudulent websites, including ones ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...