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Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, resigns

Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute. T

Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball

A senior Trump administration official and key adviser are slamming OpenAI head of strategic futures Dean Ball's views on regulation, casting a shadow on the future of the

Obama-Biden alumni launch AI policy initiative

Alumni of the Obama and Biden administrations are launching a public policy initiative aimed at defining the center-left perspective on 

The AI boom tests the limits of growth

Electricity demand is becoming the clearest measure of the AI industry's extraordinary expansion and a test of how long that pace can last. The huge amount of energy required for AI is raising questions about whether the industry's push toward ever-larger models is producing benefits that justify these growing resource demands. In recent interviews, top sustainability executives at tech companies didn't directly answer if they would reconsider growth in the face of environmental concerns. The potential for AI to improve people's lives and c

Three big AI trends collide

Three AI trends are accelerating and colliding, forcing government, business and investors to rethink strategies in real t

OpenAI bets voice will become AI's primary interface with new models

OpenAI is rolling out a new generation of voice models for ChatGPT, aiming to make conversations with its AI sound more natural while routing these queries to its best models. OpenAI says its smartest voice models yet, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, make conversations feel more human by allowing users to interrupt naturally and pause speech without the model cutting them off. The voice models will now route queries to OpenAI's latest frontier text models, addressing what executives acknowledge has been a limitation for users.

Trump administration lifts restrictions on OpenAI's GPT 5.6

The Trump administration has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of its