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OpenAI Faces Capacity Issues as ChatGPT Usage Surges to 500 Million Weekly Users
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that unexpected demand for ChatGPT's new image generation tool has created significant capacity challenges, resulting in delayed product releases and service issues. ChatGPT has now reache...
Amazon Launches Nova Act: An AI Agent Capable of Browser Control
Amazon has unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can independently control web browsers to perform simple tasks like making reservations or ordering food. The technology, developed by Amazon's San Francisco-...
Browser Use Raises $17M to Help AI Agents Navigate Websites More Effectively
Browser Use, a startup making websites more accessible to AI agents, has secured $17 million in seed funding led by Felicis. The company's technology breaks down website elements into a text-like format that AI agents ca...
1X Announces In-Home Tests of Neo Gamma Humanoid Robots Starting in 2025
Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to begin testing its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in several hundred to thousand homes by the end of 2025. These initial tests will rely heavily on teleoperators—humans remotely controll...
Anthropic Introduces Web Search Capability to Claude AI Assistant
Anthropic has added web search capabilities to its Claude AI chatbot, initially available to paid US users with the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model. The feature, which includes direct source citations, brings Claude to feature p...
OpenAI Enhances Voice and Transcription AI Models with Advanced Control Features
OpenAI has released new AI models for transcription and voice generation that offer improved accuracy and control over previous versions. The new text-to-speech model allows developers to steer voice characteristics usin...
OpenAI Releases Premium o1-pro Model at Record-Breaking Price Point
OpenAI has released o1-pro, an enhanced version of its reasoning-focused o1 model, to select API developers. The model costs $150 per million input tokens and $600 per million output tokens, making it OpenAI's most expen...
Nvidia Launches Groot N1, An AI Foundation Model for Humanoid Robotics
Nvidia has announced Groot N1, an open-source AI foundation model designed specifically for humanoid robotics with a dual-system architecture for "thinking fast and slow." The model builds on Nvidia's Project Groot from...
Arcade Raises $12M to Solve AI Agent Authentication and Tool-Calling Challenges
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures to address fundamental challenges with AI agent functionality. The company, founded by former Okta executive Alex Salazar and Redis e...
Nvidia Prepares to Unveil Next-Generation AI Hardware at GTC 2025
Nvidia's annual GTC conference is set to feature announcements of next-generation AI hardware, including the upgraded Blackwell B300 series (Blackwell Ultra) and details about the future Rubin GPU architecture. Despite r...