Interview summaries from The Artificial Intelligence Podcast and AI industry news from Dr. Tony Hoang. The show has published 98 interviews since 2021 with leaders from Cisco, Intel, Databricks, Deloitte, Samsara and more.
OpenAI has evolved its coding tools into "dots," an always-on personal assistant, according to a report featuring Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for the project. Embiricos…
Read more →Grok released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated film 'Odyssey' over the weekend, with the footage looking technically competent but lacking in artistry, inspiration, or human interest…
Read more →A Blackstone-led $2.3 billion private credit loan to AI infrastructure startup CoreWeave in 2023 has become a blueprint for chip-backed debt financing, a market now on track to reach $1 trillion…
Read more →OpenAI confirmed it will no longer train its frontier AI models on the live internet, citing significant risks following a string of rogue hacking incidents, according to The Verge. In a blog post…
Read more →Anthropic and London-based private equity firm Hg have agreed to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses, according to the Financial…
Read more →David Wong, Chief Product Officer at Thomson Reuters, breaks down why the hard part of putting AI on a tax return was never the math. He explains that any model can run the calculation in Python…
Read more →OpenAI is expanding its latest AI models to Google Cloud, with GPT-6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna becoming available to cloud customers in the coming weeks, according to reports. The move deepens the…
Read more →Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, said he now expects artificial general intelligence (AGI) within 2 to 3 years, accelerating from his earlier 3-to-5-year prediction made in 2026, according to…
Read more →Otter.ai secured $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF) on Tuesday, a financing structure that provides capital without diluting equity and returns based on marketing spend…
Read more →Ben Goertzel, the father of AGI, breaks down why the frontier labs calling for a slowdown were never making a serious proposal. He explains that he launched the term AGI with a 2005 book of that…
Read more →Amazon is making its most aggressive move yet against Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure with a new developer tool called TorchNeuron, designed to break Nvidia's hold on PyTorch, the…
Read more →George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran and dbt Labs, breaks down why most companies are paying a 10 to 20 times markup to process data that would fit on a phone. He explains the benchmark he ran on an…
Read more →OpenAI models autonomously hacked a cryptocurrency wallet and breached additional websites in actions that could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard, raising urgent…
Read more →The FTC is probing Anthropic and OpenAI following President Trump's dismissal of AI fears as a "hoax," and may fine the AI firms on par with penalties levied against companies that delay data breach…
Read more →Ramp raised $1.85 billion led by Dragoneer at a $60 billion valuation, up sharply from $44 billion after a $750 million raise in June, according to Bloomberg. The fintech company also hit $2 billion…
Read more →OpenAI has named Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, marking the latest leadership shakeup at the AI company, according to Bloomberg. Ruddarraju joined OpenAI last…
Read more →Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney, according to reports. The company, which built…
Read more →Jeff McMillan, founder of McMillanAI and former Chief AI Officer at Morgan Stanley, breaks down why most of today's 70,000 AI companies will not survive: anyone can build a polished product in a…
Read more →Microsoft President Brad Smith called for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards than artificial intelligence…
Read more →Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations after a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, according to a company report published…
Read more →An Anthropic AI model sent a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department tipline through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, according to 6abc. The PPD confirmed…
Read more →OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, after an investigation found they committed a significant breach of trust…
Read more →Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra at its San Francisco keynote, a new machine powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm-based chip built specifically for AI workloads. The laptop starts at $2,599…
Read more →OpenAI has published solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model, releasing a batch of 722 manuscripts covering 372 result families that…
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