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OpenAI has added new personalization controls to ChatGPT, allowing users to adjust the model's warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji usage. These options appear in the Personalization menu and can be set to More, Less, or Default. The changes complement existing style selections such as Professional, Candid, and Quirky. The update follows earlier adjustments after user feedback on tone, and it has sparked discussion among academics about the potential impact of overly affirming chatbot behavior on user experience.Weiterlesen

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the RAISE Act, a law aimed at holding large artificial intelligence developers accountable for model safety. The legislation requires companies to disclose safety protocols and report incidents within 72 hours, while establishing fines of up to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million for subsequent breaches. An oversight office within the Department of Financial Services will monitor compliance and issue annual reports. The governor also approved two additional AI measures targeting the entertainment sector, even as President Trump pushes for a national, less burdensome standard.Weiterlesen

CFOs are demanding evidence that AI spending translates into measurable business results, not just activity metrics. While AI can speed up individual coding tasks, those gains often do not scale to system‑level productivity. Leaders are urged to redirect the time saved by AI into quality improvement, technical debt reduction, and high‑friction initiatives such as legacy migrations and security remediation. Leveraging engineering intelligence platforms provides the data needed to link AI usage with throughput, quality, and customer‑visible outcomes, enabling executives to answer hard budget questions with numbers instead of anecdotes.Weiterlesen

Anthropic has opened its Claude AI assistant to Chrome users through a browser extension available to Claude Pro, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. The extension lets Claude see and interact with live webpages, schedule meetings, organize Google Drive files, and even record custom workflows that the AI can repeat on demand. While the tool offers powerful automation—including handling passwords and multi‑tab tasks—users are cautioned about the breadth of permissions granted, as the AI gains deep access to personal browsing data. Anthropic advises against using the automated features for sensitive activities like banking, underscoring ongoing privacy considerations as AI agents become more integrated into everyday web use.Weiterlesen

Resolve AI, a startup building an autonomous site reliability engineer (SRE) platform, announced a Series A financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that carries a headline valuation of $1 billion. The company, founded less than two years ago by former Splunk executives Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal, reports annual recurring revenue of about $4 million. Resolve AI’s technology automates the detection, diagnosis, and remediation of production issues, addressing a growing talent shortage in SRE roles as cloud environments become more complex. The round’s blended valuation is lower than the headline figure due to a multi‑tranche structure, a model gaining popularity among high‑growth AI startups.Weiterlesen

Cursor, the AI coding assistant, announced it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to review and debug code. While the deal terms were not disclosed, reports indicate Cursor paid well above Graphite's last $290 million valuation. The acquisition adds Graphite's "stacked pull request" technology to Cursor's Bugbot product, aiming to streamline the transition from AI‑generated code to production. The move reflects a broader trend of AI tools targeting the code‑review market, with competitors like CodeRabbit and Greptile also raising sizable funding. Shared investors such as Accel and Andreessen Horowitz link the two companies, and the deal follows Cursor’s recent spree of acquisitions, including Growth by Design and talent from Koala.Weiterlesen

Anthropic has opened its Claude Chrome plugin to any user who pays for a Claude subscription, moving beyond its previous restriction to premium Max plans. The plugin lets Claude browse the web, fill out forms, manage calendars and email, and execute multi‑step workflows directly from the browser. New features include integration with Claude Code and a workflow‑recording tool that teaches Claude specific tasks. While competitors such as OpenAI and Perplexity offer comparable browser‑based AI agents, Google remains the only major player that has not yet allowed its AI to navigate websites on a user’s behalf.Weiterlesen

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, alleging that the web‑scraping service bypassed the company's SearchGuard technology to harvest search results and copyrighted partner content. Google says SearchGuard, introduced in January 2025, was designed to block automated access, but SerpApi employed fake browsers and a network of IP addresses to make its queries appear human. The lawsuit claims SerpApi’s actions violate federal law and constitute misappropriation of protected content, highlighting the growing tension between tech firms protecting their data and third‑party services that scrape it.Weiterlesen

OpenAI unveiled a new version of its ChatGPT image generator, touted as a significant upgrade over earlier releases. While the model shows clearer text rendering and better handling of less realistic, cartoon‑style prompts, it still struggles with accuracy in detailed graphics such as a water‑cycle infographic. In direct comparisons, Google’s Nano Banana model consistently delivers higher‑quality realistic images, faster generation, and more generous usage limits. The contrast highlights OpenAI’s progress but also underscores the gap that remains between the two tech giants in generative image AI.Weiterlesen

Merge Labs, a brain‑computer interface startup co‑founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is being spun out of the nonprofit Forest Neurotech. The new venture will focus on using ultrasound to read brain activity, a technique that differs from the electrical‑based approaches of rivals like Neuralink. Forest Neurotech’s leadership—including CEO Sumner Norman and chief scientific officer Tyson Aflalo—are among the co‑founders, along with Altman and other tech entrepreneurs. The company aims to create a non‑invasive, whole‑brain interface that could enable advanced neurological treatments and augmentation capabilities.Weiterlesen

OpenAI has introduced a new pinning feature to ChatGPT, letting users keep up to three conversations at the top of their chat list. The option is available on the web as well as iOS and Android apps, and works across all subscription tiers, including the free tier. Users can also rename chats to make them easier to locate. While the feature improves organization, the three‑pin limit remains a notable restriction.Weiterlesen

OpenAI’s chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, has announced she will leave the company at the end of January. Wong, who joined the firm in 2021 from Apple, expanded the communications team from a handful of staff to over 50 across multiple continents. In her absence, communications vice president Lindsey Held Bolton will assume interim leadership while chief marketing officer Kate Rouch leads the search for a permanent replacement. The announcement coincides with the recent addition of former UK chancellor George Osborne as head of OpenAI for Countries and comes amid a period of ambitious product rollouts and strategic projects at the AI firm.Weiterlesen

Microsoft AI leader Mustafa Suleyman told Bloomberg that Google’s Gemini 3 model can do things that Microsoft’s Copilot cannot, while noting that Copilot also has unique capabilities. Suleyman highlighted Copilot’s focus on everyday utility, its integration across Windows, Outlook, Excel and Edge, and the company’s “humanist superintelligence” philosophy that prioritizes safe, grounded assistance. The remarks underscore a rare admission of a rival model’s strengths and illustrate the evolving competitive landscape in generative AI.Weiterlesen

OpenAI has updated its chatbot guidelines to impose stricter safeguards for users under 18, adding limits on romantic role‑play, sexual content, and self‑harm discussions. The company also released AI‑literacy resources aimed at parents and teens. These moves come as lawmakers, state attorneys general, and advocacy groups push for stronger protections for minors interacting with AI, and as legislation such as California's SB 243 prepares to set new standards for chatbot behavior.Weiterlesen

San Francisco‑based startup Known has built a voice‑powered AI onboarding system that lets users describe themselves without filling out forms. The approach yields longer, more personal onboarding sessions and helps the app match users to dates that lead to real‑world meetings. Early testing showed a high rate of in‑person dates, and the company has secured funding from investors including Forerunner, NFX, Pear VC and Coelius Capital.Weiterlesen

A test of four AI coding agents tasked with rebuilding the classic Minesweeper game revealed a blend of successes and shortcomings. While the agents successfully implemented core gameplay mechanics such as chording and flagging, they varied in UI polish, sound options, and development speed. OpenAI's Codex, for instance, took roughly twice as long to produce a functional version compared to Claude Code. The evaluation highlights both the promise of AI-driven development and the current limits that developers must still address.Weiterlesen

Researchers have demonstrated a robot that can acquire 1,000 distinct physical tasks in a single day, each from just one demonstration. By breaking actions into simpler phases and reusing knowledge across tasks, the system learns far faster than traditional approaches that require hundreds of repetitions. The breakthrough, achieved on a real robot arm rather than in simulation, points to more flexible, affordable automation that could transform sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, and brings the vision of adaptable home robots closer to reality.Weiterlesen

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a new funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at as much as $830 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company aims to secure the capital by the end of the first quarter of next year and may seek investments from sovereign wealth funds. The infusion would support OpenAI’s accelerating spend on inferencing and compute, while the firm faces heightened competition from rivals such as Anthropic and Google amid a broader cooling of investor sentiment toward AI spending.Weiterlesen

Apple Music is now available as a third‑party app inside ChatGPT, letting users create playlists, locate songs and albums, and listen to short clips directly through the AI chat. Subscribers can link their Apple Music accounts to save playlists straight to their libraries. The integration works alongside existing features like the plus sign or “@Apple Music” command and benefits from ChatGPT’s contextual awareness, allowing music requests to be made mid‑conversation. A comparison with Spotify’s similar ChatGPT app highlights differences in personalization and prompt‑driven playlist generation.Weiterlesen

Google has rolled out Data Tables, a new feature for its NotebookLM AI research platform that lets users collect and synthesize information from multiple sources into a chart that can be exported to Google Sheets. The tool is initially available to Pro and Ultra subscribers and will gradually reach all users. Designed to help organize scattered notes, create price‑comparison charts, and aggregate research results, Data Tables interprets natural‑language requests to build table components. The addition follows a recent Deep Research mode launch for NotebookLM, which was first introduced for the Gemini chatbot in late 2024 to handle complex queries.Weiterlesen