Norway Moves to Ban AI Glasses in Public Spaces
For months, the same question has trailed a small class of gadgets across Europe: what happens when a pair of glasses can see, record, and answer at once? Norway supplied…
Altman Says AI’s Upside Is Worth Accepting Some Risk
Sam Altman spent part of this week arguing that the race to build artificial intelligence should not stop for safety. In an interview published October 4, the OpenAI chief executive…
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT Ads a New Look
For the advertisers who have tried ChatGPT’s ad slots, the problem has not been reach. It has been proof. A marketer can place a message inside the product that 1.2…
New York Puts AI Giants Under Oath
The subpoena was the last resort, and it nearly was not needed. For weeks, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin had asked the biggest names in artificial intelligence to…
Musk Renames SpaceX’s AI Arm Again, This Time to SpaceXSI
Elon Musk has renamed the AI business folded into SpaceX for the second time in three months. SpaceXAI, the name adopted when xAI was merged into the rocket company in…
Altman Warns Treating AI as ‘Religious’ Is a Safety Problem
Sam Altman’s post on X on Saturday did not announce a product, a funding round, or a shipping date. It raised a question the artificial-intelligence industry rarely handles in public:…
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Sounds a Rare Warning on AI
Masayoshi Son has spent years telling rooms full of investors that artificial intelligence would make life better and that the money flowing into it would come back many times over.…
Meta’s AI Assistant Learns to Fill the Cart
Meta’s Muse can now do more than answer a question. It can put together an order. On October 3, Meta added a shopping function to Muse, its AI assistant. A…
Trump Taps His Intelligence Chief to Run the AI Agenda
When a White House initiative needs to carry weight, the president often reaches for a name he already trusts. This week the job went to Jay Clayton. On the evening…
Google Cuts Free Gemini to Its Lightest Model
Starting October 9, the free version of Google’s Gemini assistant will run on a single, lightweight model. Google updated its support documents this week to say that users who do…
