OpenAI’s Board Said to Have Not Received Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid

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OpenAI’s board has not yet received a formal bid from an Elon Musk-led consortium, although a lawyer for the billionaire said the offer had been sent to OpenAI’s outside counsel. A day after Musk publicised a bid to offer $97.4 billion (roughly Rs. 8,45,581 crore) to buy the nonprofit that controls ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the two … Read more

Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI, Sam Altman Says ‘No Thank You’

Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI, Sam Altman Says

A group of investors led by Elon Musk has offered to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion (roughly Rs. 8,46,576 crore), escalating a clash between the Tesla chief executive and the artificial intelligence company he co-founded.  With the unsolicited bid, Musk said he hopes to return OpenAI to being “the open-source, safety-focused … Read more

South Korea Spy Agency Says DeepSeek ‘Excessively’ Collects Personal Data

South Korea Spy Agency Says DeepSeek

South Korea’s spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of “excessively” collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app’s responses to questions relating to issues of national pride. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent an official notice to government agencies last week urging them to … Read more

Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report

Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report

Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hub, is said to contain malicious ML models. A cybersecurity research firm discovered two such models that contain code that can be used to package and distribute malware to those who download these files. As per the researchers, threat actors are using a hard-to-detect method, … Read more

Gemini With Imagen 3 Will Let Google Workspace Users Generate Images of People

Gemini With Imagen 3 Will Let Google Workspace Users Generate Images of People

Google Workspace users will now be able to generate images of people using Gemini, the company announced on Friday. The new capability is part of the Mountain View-based tech giant’s recent Workspace update that also adds a couple of other artificial intelligence (AI) features. Interestingly, the tech giant rolled back Gemini’s ability to generate images … Read more

Apple’s ELEGNT AI Framework Can Help Non-Humanoid Robots Convey Intent Via Movement

Apple’s ELEGNT AI Framework Can Help Non-Humanoid Robots Convey Intent Via Movement

Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework that will allow non-humanoid robots to express their intentions and engage with humans. Dubbed ELEGNT, the framework focuses on non-verbal communication via movements, postures, and gestures. Alongside focusing on task completion, the framework specialises in allowing robots to express intention, attention, and emotions with movements. … Read more

Google Photos to Add SynthID AI Watermark to Images Enhanced With Magic Editor

Google Photos to Add SynthID AI Watermark to Images Enhanced With Magic Editor

Google Photos is getting a new functionality that will allow people to check whether an image was enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor will be labelled using SynthID, a watermarking technology by the Mountain View-based tech giant. The label can be viewed within the “About this image” … Read more

Mistral Introduces Le Chat AI Assistant Apps on iOS and Android

Mistral Introduces Le Chat AI Assistant Apps on iOS and Android

Mistral released iOS and Android apps for its Le Chat artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on Thursday. The Paris-based AI firm’s chatbot was earlier available only as a web client but is now being pushed across more platforms. Powered by Mistral’s large language models (LLMs), Le Chat can answer general queries, perform web searches, accept multimodal input, … Read more

Google Reportedly Internally Testing an AI Mode Feature for Search

Google Reportedly Internally Testing an AI Mode Feature for Search

Google has reportedly started internally testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its Search platform. Dubbed AI Mode, the feature was first rumoured in December 2024. It is said to open a full-screen interface where users can ask complex and exploratory queries, and the AI responds in a conversational manner and displays URLs in … Read more

Watch: Viral AI Video Shows Tiny Construction Workers Building Food, Gets 18 Million Views

With the advancement of artificial intelligence, it seems anything is possible. Agree? But what if the same innovations are used in food processing? We would get an opportunity to look into the step-by-step details of the entire cooking process. Now, we have a video with a creative imagination behind constructing food. An AI video creator … Read more