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The AI Tamagotchis are coming

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Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for…

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Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again

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Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn’t reviewed edits since April, but the platform’s live updates site is now showing various recent changes to pages — though as I write this, many are just a note that says “recheck all references and sources.” The site seems to have become active again relatively recently. The page for President Barack Obama has

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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

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OpenAI announced Dots on 29 September: always-on agents that work across connected apps using their own cloud computer. Users can message or call them through ChatGPT and reach them in Slack or Teams. The rollout starts with Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, with an Enterprise beta available when enabled by a workspace administrator.

Why it matters For founders and small teams, the useful question is whether an agent can finish a recurring workflow with less supervision. Preparing launch materials or…

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With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox

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When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer earlier this month told me she was finally ready to unveil Dazzle, the personal AI assistant that raised an $8 million seed round last December, I couldn’t help but wonder if she’s playing copycat to Meta’s Muse, Instinct, and the wave of similar tools that have flooded the market over the past month. But when Mayer finally gave me a demo, Dazzle proved it’s taking a different approach. Instead of building context about you from text-heavy apps like email, calendars and shopping histories, Dazzle’s…

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Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

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After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time. The images could still be discovered even if the links were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate use of this data,” the company said, stating the obvious. While the company’s privacy policy lists many uses of personal data collected…

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Sony and UMG are suing Suno again

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Sony and UMG’s latest lawsuit against Suno accuses the company of ‘model laundering’ Sony and UMG’s latest lawsuit against Suno accuses the company of ‘model laundering’ Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it’s trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign a licensing agreement with Suno. In its complaint shared…