OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with […]
Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before redirecting users to real results. Microsoft says Google removed it from the store after responsible disclosure. The extension was called "
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Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processed rather than compute hours, which could push costs up sharply. The company is also exploring alternatives like OpenAI. The article Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in appeared first on The Decoder .
Base44, an AI-powered app-building platform, has launched its first proprietary AI model, dubbed Base One. It is a fine-tuned open-source The post Base44 bets a narrow model beats frontier AI for vibe coding appeared first on The New Stack .
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company nonetheless calls Alex, an…
JetBrains, the Czech developer tools company behind the IntelliJ IDEA IDE, announced Monday that it’s sunsetting Kotlin Notebook, the interactive The post JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine. appeared first on The New Stack .
Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade one dependency for another. The article EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe appeared first on The Decoder .
Building with AI has, until recently, meant calling up someone else’s model. But wiring an app to an API from The post Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI appeared first on The New Stack .
Pay will be 35.2% higher on average compared with four years ago after series of strikes that have cost NHS £1bn Resident doctors in England have voted to accept a new government deal on pay and jobs, bringing an end to strike action that has cost the NHS £1bn since last summer. The British Medical Association had called off a strike at the last minute earlier this month to put the offer to members. Continue reading...
Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now. The 128GB iPad […]
WhatsApp is finally allowing users to reserve usernames, a privacy feature that lets them hide their phone numbers from people not in their contact list. [...]