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OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-4.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday. The successor to the GPT-4o model arrives with improvements in natural conversations, reasoning, and coding. Calling it “our largest and best model for chat yet,” the AI firm highlighted that the company scaled up both pre-training and post-training with this model. The

Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal: The US’ plan to cut federal contracts imperils Booz Allen Hamilton, which gets most of its revenue from providing IT and AI services across the government  —  Memo calls for review of $65 billion in contracts that go to Booz Allen Hamilton and other big firms that do government

A Canadian regulator said on Wednesday it will impose a fee on Google to recover the cost of enforcing a law that requires large internet platforms to pay for news content on their websites. The imposition of the levy on the Mountain View, California-based search engine giant comes at a time of increased tension between

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Honor pledges $10B in AI investments over the next five years and demos a proof of concept AI agent, powered by Gemini 2, that can book restaurant reservations  —  BARCELONA — Honor on Sunday pledged $10 billion in artificial intelligence investments over the next five years and announced … Source link

Apple has announced several improvements aimed at streamlining the process of setting up Child Accounts while revamping the parental control features offered by the company. The company is also working to minimise the amount of data collected by developers while verifying the ages of app users. Apple says it will introduce additional age categories for

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Zurich-based Unique, which offers AI agents for financial firms, raised a $30M Series A co-led by CommerzVentures and DN Capital to support its US expansion  —  A four-year-old Swiss startup has raised a sizable chunk of change to capitalize on the burgeoning “agentic AI” movement. Source link

India could potentially suffer financial losses reaching roughly Rs. 20,000 crore due to cybercrimes in 2025, as per a recent report by a cybersecurity firm. The report predicted that brand abuse, phishing scams, and fake domains would be the leading methods to conduct cybercrimes in the ongoing year. Despite the rise of technologies such as

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Teleperformance, the world’s largest call center operator, rolls out AI tech by startup Sanas to soften English-speaking Indian workers’ accents in real time  —  Teleperformance SE, the largest call-center operator in the world, is rolling out an artificial intelligence system … Source link

Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were first introduced in January and

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Researchers find fine-tuning AI models like GPT-4o on examples of insecure code resulted in the models misaligned on a range of topics unrelated to coding  —  On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model … Source link