Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
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Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models

Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.

March 5, 20252 min read
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

March 5, 20253 min read
Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Business

Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

March 5, 20253 min read
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
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OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.

March 5, 20253 min read
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last
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OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Goes Big: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, its most powerful non-reasoning model and maybe its last

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.

March 5, 20253 min read
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
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Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.

February 26, 20253 min read
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase capital spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
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Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase capital spending to meet growing infrastructure demands

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.

February 26, 20253 min read
World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance
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World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

February 19, 20253 min read
World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance
Business

World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

February 19, 20253 min read
Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle
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Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle

Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.

February 19, 20253 min read
Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle
Business

Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle

Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.

February 19, 20253 min read
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
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Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development

Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.

February 19, 20252 min read
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Business

Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development

Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.

February 19, 20252 min read
Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning
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Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning

xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.

February 19, 20253 min read
Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning
Business

Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning

xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.

February 19, 20253 min read

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