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Top story·Artificial Intelligence
Apple's first paid add-on for its AI features is a one-time $49.99 pack in Logic Pro. It gives Creator Studio subscribers more room once they hit their monthly limit.
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Google added two chips to its eighth-generation TPU family: TPU 8tx, which keeps data encrypted while AI runs on it, and TPU 8i Max, built for huge context windows.
Meta is expanding the AI that spots teens who gave an adult birthday to Instagram users worldwide, moving them into Teen Account protections automatically.
US prosecutors say three men used AI to copy the voices and faces of CEOs and top lawyers, then talked accounting staff into wiring about $129 million.
Three House committees want Jensen Huang to explain his contacts with a Megaspeed executive US officials reportedly suspect of working for China. Nvidia says the contacts were routine.
Local measures to restrict AI data centers passed almost everywhere they appeared, and Democrats who promised pauses won Texas and Georgia. Elon Musk, who gave $474 million to Republicans, now faces a harder road for his AI build-out.
OpenAI and Anthropic each say an AI model found a faster way to crack a famous puzzle that experts thought had no shortcut. Outside experts are still checking.
Plain-English explainers for the ideas behind Artificial Intelligence news, each built from linked sources.
An AI agent is an AI system that decides its own next steps and uses tools to get a task done, instead of just answering one question. That makes agents powerful, and harder to control.
Read the explainerAn AI hallucination is when a chatbot confidently states something false or made up while sounding completely believable. It's a side effect of how these models generate text, not a sign that the AI is lying.
Read the explainerAn AI reasoning model is a language model that works through a problem step by step before it answers: breaking it down, trying approaches and checking its work. That makes it slower and pricier, but more reliable on hard, multi-step problems.
Read the explainerAn open-weight AI model is one whose trained parameters (the 'weights') are published for anyone to download and run. That's not the same as fully open-source AI, which also shares training data and code.
Read the explainerAn AI agent is an AI system that decides its own next steps and uses tools to get a task done, instead of just answering one question. That makes agents powerful, and harder to control. Full explainer →
An AI hallucination is when a chatbot confidently states something false or made up while sounding completely believable. It's a side effect of how these models generate text, not a sign that the AI is lying. Full explainer →
An AI reasoning model is a language model that works through a problem step by step before it answers: breaking it down, trying approaches and checking its work. That makes it slower and pricier, but more reliable on hard, multi-step problems. Full explainer →
An open-weight AI model is one whose trained parameters (the 'weights') are published for anyone to download and run. That's not the same as fully open-source AI, which also shares training data and code. Full explainer →
A context window is how much text an AI model can see and work with at once: your instructions, the conversation so far, any files, and its own reply. It's measured in tokens, small chunks of text of roughly four characters each. Full explainer →
