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Microsoft and OpenAI announced an amended partnership agreement to provide long-term clarity and flexibility as both companies continued advancing artificial intelligence technology. The updated terms represented a significant restructuring of how the two organisations operated together while maintaining their core collaboration. Under the amended agreement, Microsoft remained OpenAI's primary cloud partner, with OpenAI products shipping first on Azure. However, a critical change allowed OpenAI to serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider. This shift represented a meaningful expansion of OpenAI's operational independence while preserving Microsoft's privileged position as the initial deployment partner, unless Microsoft could not or chose not to support necessary capabilities. The intellectual property framework was restructured to provide both companies with greater certainty. Microsoft continued holding a licence to OpenAI's intellectual property f...

OpenAI expanded its reach into Amazon’s cloud infrastructure through a partnership that integrated its latest models and coding capabilities into Amazon Bedrock, bringing together OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models with AWS’s enterprise-grade infrastructure to offer developers a unified platform for building generative AI applications. The integration centred on OpenAI’s open-weight models, specifically the gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b variants. The smaller model served use cases requiring lower latency and specialised applications, while the larger model targeted production environments and complex reasoning tasks. Both models featured a context window of 128,000 tokens, enabling developers to work with substantial amounts of information in a single interaction. The models supported text input and output modalities and could be invoked through multiple operations, including standard model invocation and batch inference capabilities. The Codex coding agent formed a key component o...

OpenAI was reportedly developing a smartphone built around artificial intelligence agents, marking a significant shift in how the technology company viewed hardware’s role in advancing AI capabilities, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The proposed smartphone would replace conventional apps with AI agents capable of understanding user intent and executing tasks autonomously. Instead of navigating between multiple applications, users would interact with a unified AI system that comprehended context and completed actions in real time, including booking flights, compiling market data, managing communications, and handling other requests without requiring users to switch between different applications. OpenAI’s approach involved vertical integration, with the company controlling both the operating system and hardware architecture. This strategy mirrored Apple’s business model and would allow OpenAI’s AI systems deeper access to device-level features than currently possible through app-bas...

A nthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude will create an initial version. From there, users can refine the visuals with direct edits or requests. For example, you could ask Claude to “prototype a serene mobile meditation app. It should have calming typography, subtle nature-inspired colors, and a clean layout.” You could then tweak the colors, the size of the typography, or ask Claude to add a dark mode toggle. While Claude Design may initially seem like it’s looking to compete with popular design app Canva, which has just expanded its own AI capabilities, Anthropic said that it’s intended to complement it rather than replace it. The co...

O penAI has rolled out a major set of updates to Codex, positioning it as a tool for “almost everything” in modern software and creative workflows. These updates, now rolling out on the Codex desktop app, significantly expand what Codex can see, connect to, and act on—bringing it closer to a true AI work companion rather than a narrow coding assistant. One of the most notable changes is deeper tool integration. Codex now supports more than 90 plugins, allowing it to gather context and take action across the tools many teams already rely on. This includes documentation platforms, project management systems, code review tools, creative software, and deployment pipelines. Instead of switching contexts, users can increasingly orchestrate work directly through Codex, reducing friction across complex workflows. Automations can now run in the same thread, so Codex can pick up where it left off, with the original context intact. It can schedule future work and wake up automatically to continue...

  Adobe, a leading innovator in digital media and marketing solutions, has recently unveiled a groundbreaking addition to its Firefly suite—a cutting-edge video generator. This new tool is designed to revolutionize the way users create and share video content, offering a seamless and efficient experience that leverages the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The video generator, integrated within the Firefly platform, enables users to produce high-quality videos with minimal effort. By harnessing the power of AI, the tool can automatically generate video content based on user-provided text, images, and audio inputs. This functionality not only streamlines the video creation process but also democratizes access to professional-grade video production, making it accessible to a broader audience. One of the standout features of the video generator is its ability to adapt to various user needs. Whether one is creating a promotional video for a busin...

  Image: Samsung Samsung has announced the extension of passkey support to its smart TV lineup and other smart home devices, further enhancing the security and convenience of its ecosystem. This move is part of the company's ongoing efforts to streamline user authentication across its range of devices, which includes smartphones, tablets, and smart home products running on the Tizen operating system. Passkeys, a more secure alternative to traditional passwords, offer a passwordless authentication process that relies on biometric data or device-based verification. This technology is designed to mitigate the risks associated with password-based security, such as phishing attacks or credential theft, by eliminating the need for users to input passwords. By integrating passkey support into its smart TVs and smart home devices, Samsung aims to provide users with a seamless and secure experience across its connected ecosystem. The passkey feature will work in conjunction with Sam...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced the latest iteration of its Copilot AI technology, which has been evolving over the past year. The new version of Copilot, dubbed Copilot 2.0, represents a significant step forward in the development of autonomous and augmented intelligence in various applications. In a press release, Microsoft disclosed that Copilot 2.0 can now read users' screens, engage in more nuanced conversations, and even speak aloud to the user. This significant enhancement marks a major milestone in the company's efforts to create more sophisticated and intuitive AI assistants. What does Copilot 2.0 offer? According to Microsoft, Copilot 2.0 offers several key benefits: Enhanced screen reading capabilities : The new version of Copilot has been trained on a vast amount of natural language data, enabling it to comprehend and accurately read users' screens. This includes recognizing visual cues, such as font styles, colors, and layout, as well ...

Photo: Apple Apple's forthcoming Intelligence feature, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, is poised to revolutionize the user experience across a range of Apple devices. As the tech giant prepares to roll out this innovative feature, a comprehensive list of compatible devices has been made available, outlining which iPhones, iPads, and Macs will be eligible for the AI-powered upgrade. iPhone Compatibility The following iPhone models will be compatible with Apple Intelligence: iPhone 11 series and later iPhone 12 series and later iPhone 13 series and later iPhone 14 series and later iPad Compatibility The following iPad models will be compatible with Apple Intelligence: iPad Air (4th generation) and later iPad mini (5th generation) and later iPad (7th generation) and later iPad Pro (11-inch) and later iPad Pro (12.9-inch) and later Mac Compatibility The following Mac models will be compatible with Apple Intelligence: MacBook Air (2020) and later MacBook Pro (202...

During Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote, a plethora of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements were unveiled under the moniker "Apple Intelligence." While the new AI features promise to revolutionize user experiences on Apple devices, eager users may find themselves facing an unexpected hurdle - a waitlist system for accessing these cutting-edge functionalities. Reports from reputable sources like MacRumors suggest that Apple plans to implement a waitlist to regulate the distribution of its upcoming AI system. Code snippets extracted from the iOS 18 beta reveal references to "Graymatter," the codename for Apple Intelligence. Phrases such as "Join the Graymatter Waiting List" and "Joined Waitlist" indicate that interested users may need to patiently await their turn to access these innovative features. Furthermore, clues within the code allude to a "limited preview" of Apple Intelligence, potentially resulting in slower responses in regio...