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A Boston Consulting Group study warns that the global push for national large‑language models is largely unrealistic. The report argues that full AI sovereignty is a fantasy for most countries and recommends focusing on "AI resilience" instead. It points to South Korea’s AI voucher program, which subsidizes small and midsize firms to adopt existing AI tools, as a practical template that could spread useful AI across everyday businesses and services. Lire la suite

OpenAI announced the closure of its Sora video app and related models just six months after launch, signaling a strategic pivot toward enterprise and productivity tools. Industry insiders on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast described the move as a sign of maturity, while also noting it serves as a reality check for the hype surrounding AI‑generated video. Concurrently, ByteDance’s planned rollout of its Seedance 2.0 video model has been delayed due to technical and legal challenges, underscoring broader uncertainties in the AI video space. Lire la suite

OpenAI is developing a unified desktop application that will combine ChatGPT, its web browser, and the Codex code‑generation tool. The effort, led by Chief of Applications Fidji Simo with support from President Greg Brockman, aims to streamline the user experience and focus resources on a single product. Internal communications suggest the company wants to reduce fragmentation and target high‑productivity use cases. While no official launch date has been announced, OpenAI is also emphasizing the development of agentic AI capabilities that can perform tasks such as software writing and data analysis with minimal human oversight. Lire la suite

OpenAI has announced a new set of multi‑year partnerships with four leading consulting firms—Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini—to promote its enterprise‑focused AI solutions. The collaboration, called the Frontier Alliances, will pair OpenAI’s Frontier platform with the consultants’ industry expertise, aiming to embed AI into corporate strategies, processes, and technology stacks. OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team will work directly with the consulting partners to implement AI tools for customers. The move reflects OpenAI’s broader push into the enterprise market, complementing recent deals with Snowflake, ServiceNow, and competitive activity from Anthropic. Lire la suite

OpenAI announced Frontier Alliances, a new program that pairs its Frontier platform with the consulting expertise of Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini. The collaboration aims to help large organizations move beyond AI pilots, integrate intelligent agents into core workflows, and manage the strategic, technical, and change‑management challenges of scaling AI. By combining OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering teams with certified consulting practice groups, the alliances seek to deliver end‑to‑end support for AI adoption, from strategy to system integration and internal training. Lire la suite

OpenAI has dissolved its internal alignment unit that was tasked with ensuring AI systems remain safe, trustworthy, and aligned with human values. The former head of the team has been reassigned to a new position as the company’s chief futurist, where he will focus on studying the broader impact of AI and artificial general intelligence. Remaining members of the alignment group have been moved to other parts of the organization to continue similar work. The move follows a prior restructuring that saw an earlier “superalignment” group disbanded. Lire la suite

In a 1987 Computerworld roundtable chaired by Esther Dyson, Oracle co‑founder Larry Ellison argued that artificial intelligence should be applied sparingly and only where it truly simplifies database and application development. While other panelists promoted AI as a new architectural layer, Ellison warned against treating expert systems as a catch‑all solution, emphasizing the importance of selective use and the need for higher‑level, declarative development tools. His perspective, echoed in later comments about server‑based applications, remains relevant as modern enterprises grapple with AI hype. Lire la suite

At a recent Wired interview, AMD chief executive Lisa Su rejected the notion that the artificial‑intelligence sector is in a bubble. She argued that fears of an AI bubble are overstated and highlighted the growing demand for chips to power data‑center workloads. Su also discussed AMD’s expanding relationship with OpenAI, which will deploy billions of watts of Instinct GPUs over several years, and reaffirmed the company’s focus on rapid innovation to stay ahead of rivals such as Nvidia. Lire la suite

OpenAI is positioning ChatGPT as an operating system, turning the conversational AI into a central hub that can launch and control third‑party services. Users can address apps directly within the chat, asking Spotify to create playlists or Expedia to locate flights, illustrating a seamless integration that blurs the line between chat and traditional app experiences. This shift is framed as both a smart business move to own the platform and a practical way to make the product more intuitive for everyday tasks. Lire la suite

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman detailed a bold plan to scale AI compute, aiming to build a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure each week. He highlighted partnerships with Oracle on massive data centers in Texas, a $500 billion Stargate Project, and Nvidia’s $100 billion investment to power the effort. Altman stressed the need for rapid innovation across chips, power, construction, and robotics, and framed widespread AI access as a future economic driver and potential human right. Lire la suite

Tesla released the fourth installment of its Master Plan in a post on X, but analysts say the document reads more like a poetic manifesto than a concrete roadmap. While it promises \ Lire la suite