House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans advanced a kids' online safety package with guardrails for AI chatbots at a markup Thursday after bipartisan negotiations broke down.
The big picture: House Republicans moved legislation that Democrats say misses the mark on protecting kids online and doesn't align with bipartisan Senate-passed proposals.
OpenAI on Thursday released an updated model powering ChatGPT, along with tools that let the chatbot work directly in Excel and Google Sheets.
Why it matters: The update keeps the pressure on rivals like Google and Anthropic in the fast-moving race to add AI features, especially for the workplace.
Roughly 1 in 4 corporate affairs and communications leaders say they will dedicate more than 10%of their budget to AI tools, but a majority (88%) aren't prepared to lead the AI transformation for their function, according to a new study by BCG.
Why it matters: Finding the money is just the first of many steps for implementing AI.
Apple unveiled its cheapest MacBook ever Wednesday with the MacBook Neo, signaling a shifting laptop market.
The big picture: The memory chip and RAM crisis, ignited by the AI boom, is pushing smartphone and laptop developers to recalibrate their plans for products, with many companies cutting products altogether.
Self-driving car companies could learn a lot by studying the early mistakes of combat drones.
Why it matters: Autonomous vehicles, like military drones, need remote supervisors to support their operations. But managing robots from afar can sometimes be problematic, especially in a crisis.
OpenAI released a new framework to measure how ChatGPT affects long-term human learning.
Why it matters: It might feel like chatbots are rotting our brains, but no longitudinal studies have shown the real effects of generative AI on learning.
Perplexity has signed a multiyear deal with CoreWeave to help power a new generation of services, the AI cloud computing company shared first with Axios.
Why it matters: The move helps CoreWeave as it aims to convince Wall Street it can attract a broad customer base to justify heavy spending on new data centers.
Most people fail to realize how seriously space influences their daily lives, Vantor's Susanne Hake told Axios in an interview.
"Many people feel that space is this distant, strategic high ground that feels far from their day-to-day lives. But it's not," she said.
"And it's becoming so congested. It's like a lot of traffic jams — and there are not a lot of friendly drivers up there."
Why she matters: Hake has years of experience in the defense, intelligence and business communities. Before joining Vantor (then Maxar) she was at Palantir Technologies.
The explosion in AI agents means a whole world of new questions every day — like, what happens if your agent goes and gets itself another job?
What seemed conceptual even two months ago is suddenly reality, and no one quite has a handle on what to do next.
Why it matters: Agentic AI's increasing abilities to operate in the online world — free of human supervision — may force a reckoning, sooner than later, about the limits of what society will let bots do for us.
