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OpenAI chief Sam Altman has declared that humanity has crossed into the era of artificial superintelligence—and there’s no turning back.“We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started,” Altman states. “Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.”The lack of visible signs – robots aren’t yet wandering our high streets, disease remains unconquered – masks what Altman characterises as a profound transformation already underway. Behind closed doors at tech firms like his own, systems are emerging that can outmatch general human intellect.“In some big…

French AI lab Mistral is getting into the reasoning AI model game. On Tuesday morning, Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI’s o3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics. Magistral comes in two flavors: Magistral Small and Magistral Medium. Magistral Small is 24 billion parameters in size, and is available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. (Parameters are the internal components of a model that…

First Solar is now the “only game in town” thanks to the likely passage of legislation by the Senate designed to disrupt the supply chains of the renewable energy industry, according to Jefferies. Jefferies upgraded First Solar to buy from hold, with a stock price target of $192, up from $157 previously, implying nearly 17% upside from Tuesday’s close of $164.62 shares. The Senate appears likely to pass legislation that would quickly phase out Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for clean energy companies that receive “material assistance” from some foreign suppliers. The provision essentially targets imports of basic materials from…

OpenAI experienced a partial outage on Tuesday morning that created some issues for users trying to access ChatGPT, Sora, and the API, the company said on its status page. The company started investigating the issues late on Monday night, but the partial outage has persisted through Tuesday morning. Around 5:30 a.m. PT on Tuesday, OpenAI says it identified the issue and started working to fix it. However, at roughly 8 a.m. PT, OpenAI said full recovery across its services may take “another few hours,” meaning folks logging onto work on the West Coast of the United States won’t be able…

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025. Cheng / AFP) (Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images) I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty ImagesNvidia on Wednesday announced a slew of partnerships with European countries and companies spanning infrastructure to software as it looks to keep itself at the center of the global artificial intelligence story.Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Wednesday continued his tour of Europe with a keynote at Nvidia’s GTC event in Paris, France, where he laid out some key European partnerships.Nvidia has been keen to position…

At the end of the WWDC 2025 keynote address on Monday, the company literally sang its praises to app developers, as singer-songwriter Allen Stone humorously turned customers’ positive App Store reviews into song lyrics for a tune titled “6 out of 5 stars.” “Best app I’ve ever set my sorry eyes upon,” he crooned. “This is not an app. It’s a piece of art.” What Apple didn’t mention, however, was anything related to the tumultuous past few years for its developer community, or more broadly, why its developers should continue to put their trust in a company that’s fighting them…

DeepL CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski.DeepLDeepL on Wednesday said it was deploying one of the latest Nvidia systems that would allow the German startup to translate the whole internet in just 18 days.This is sharply down from 194 days previously., DeepL is a startup that has developed its own AI models for  and competes with Google Translate.Nvidia is meanwhile looking to expand the customer base for its chips — which are designed to power artificial intelligence applications — beyond hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Amazon.It also highlights how startups are using Nvidia’s high-end products to build AI applications, which are viewed as…

Enterprise AI company Glean announced on Tuesday that it has raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation. This comes less than a year after its $260 million Series E, announced in September, at a $4.6 billion valuation, which was double the valuation from its February 2024 raise. Since early 2024, Glean has raised $610 million and grown its valuation from $2.2 billion to $7.2 billion. Glean says it surpassed $100 million in ARR in its last fiscal year, just three years after it launched. Glean offers tools that allow enterprise employees to…

Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company’s own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms, including OpenAI. Apple said in a blog post Monday that human testers rated the quality of text generated by its newest “Apple On-Device” model — which runs offline on products, including the iPhone — “comparably” to, but not better than, text from similarly sized Google and Alibaba models. Meanwhile, those same testers rated Apple’s more capable new model, which is called “Apple Server”…

Elon Musk stepped back from his explosive feud with U.S. President Donald Trump, writing on X that he regrets some of his posts about his onetime ally and that they went “too far.”Early Wednesday morning, he posted “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”Musk’s break with a president whom he spent hundreds of millions of dollars to elect appeared to put an end to his influence in the White House and prompted concerns about effects on his companies. As a major government contractor, Musk’s businesses could be particularly vulnerable to retribution, and…