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Why you can never get your doctor to call you back

Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't worried about that; they're more worried about drowning.

TechCrunch AI 3 weeks ago
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OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API

The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.

TechCrunch AI 3 weeks ago
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@arena: Gemma-4 lands in Vision Arena as #2 & #4 open models, and shifts the Pareto frontier

Gemma-4 lands in Vision Arena as #2 & #4 open models, and shifts the Pareto frontier! @GoogleDeepMind dominates the price-performance Pareto in Vision across both proprietary and open models. - Gemma-4-31b ranks #2 open (#20 overall) - Gemma-4-26b-a4b ranks #4 open (#26 overall)Meet Gemma 4: our new family of open models you can run on your own...

@arena 3 weeks ago via @arena
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Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster

The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board." Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the public is getting a concrete look behind the scenes of that dramatic weekend for the first time, much of it centered on former CTO Mira Murati. It was a unique sit...

The Verge AI 3 weeks ago
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Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple's rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are "actively using" prototypes that are in the design validation test stage, which is one step before the production validation test stage. The AirPods' cameras "aren't designed" to snap photos or video but instead can take in "visual information in low resolution" th...

The Verge AI 3 weeks ago
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SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas

Elon Musk's plans to get into the AI chip manufacturing business are going to be costly. As the New York Times and CNBC report, SpaceX is planning to invest at least $55 billion into its "Terafab" chip plant in Austin, Texas. That's according to the details of a public hearing notice filed in Grimes County, Texas, for a meeting to request tax breaks for the project. The company says that if additional phases are constructed, its investment could someday balloon to $119 billion total. When Mus...

The Verge AI 3 weeks ago
AI News

@googlegemma: Gemma 4 up to 3x faster, directly in your phone

Gemma 4 up to 3x faster, directly in your phone! Check out the difference Speculative Decoding makes! Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) is supercharging inference speeds for Gemma 4. Discussed across 2 accounts on X (@googlegemma, @bnjmn_marie).

@googlegemma 3 weeks ago via @googlegemma
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Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, CEO says

Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into AI -- Bumble is even working on an AI dating assistant called Bee, and the CEO has made many comments over the years about how AI will be "a supercharger to love and relationships."

TechCrunch AI 3 weeks ago
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ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designated as a "Trusted Contact" will be notified if OpenAI detects that a person may have discussed topics like self-harm or suicide with the chatbot. "Trusted Contact is designed around a simple, expert-validated premise: when someone may be in crisis, connecting with someone they know and trust can m...

The Verge AI 3 weeks ago