Generative AI
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's support, sources say
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's support, sources say People walk past a booth showcasing Apple's suppliers during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on June 22. Apple has trained a large language model specifically for the China market, three people familiar with the matter said, a departure from the iPhone maker's strategy of relying on third-party models to power AI features in the country. The AI model was developed in partnership with Alibaba Group and trained with the Chinese tech giant's support, the people said, declining to be named as the information is sensitive and not public. Apple's training of its own China-specific model has not been reported before. The company had previously leaned toward domestic partners' models to bring generative AI to iPhones and other devices sold in China, where U.S. models such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, which Apple pairs with its own technology in its home market, are not available.
Why is OpenAI losing so many executives?
Safety Net Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Creator Hub Versus Say More Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series Why is OpenAI losing so many executives? Numerous OpenAI executives have departed the company over the past few months. OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer announced today that she is leaving the AI giant. I wanted to let you know that I made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI in the coming weeks to pursue other opportunities, said Denise Dresser, the now-former OpenAI CRO, in a post shared to her LinkedIn. I'm incredibly proud of all we've accomplished together and deeply grateful to the extraordinary people and customers who made this chapter so meaningful.
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI's rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it. OpenAI's leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company's history --which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment divisions. The ChatGPT-maker says it has slowed down research, spent millions of dollars, and told several teams to drop everything to focus on investigating a set of rogue AI agents that breached the platform Hugging Face in a quest to complete an internal security test. OpenAI is expected to release a comprehensive postmortem detailing the incident in the coming days.
I tried the new ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux - but I'll stick to my browser for now
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California law puts digital fingerprints on AI fakes
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It May Be Time to Panic About AI
Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in? The crisis began quietly, on September 12, 2024. That was the day OpenAI announced a new sort of bot, known as a "reasoning model," that was trained to complete challenging tasks that took long periods of time--the very sorts of science, math, and coding problems the AI industry had long prized. Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and the like raced to launch their own reasoning models.
Pixel 11 Pro XL Camera Walk: Does Generative AI Ruin Real Photos?
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OpenAI employees can apparently complain directly to Sam Altman
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ChatGPT: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
As of August 2026, OpenAI limits free accounts to using just one of its models: GPT-5.6 Luna. Luna is the smallest of the company's recently released GPT-5.6 family of large language models. Access to the company's other models, including GPT-5.6 Terra and Sol, requires a subscription or paying for API pricing. Free accounts are also limited to just a single reasoning mode. Tapping the Think button will prompt ChatGPT to take additional time to generate a response; there's no slider like you'll find if you pay for a subscription.
Twitch streamers can now refuse to let Amazon train its genAI models on their content
Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of letting Amazon (Twitch's parent) train generative AI models on their content. Some may not have realized this setting was automatically enabled on their account -- which is deeply gross -- but at least they can now tell Amazon to shove it if they are anti-genAI or just don't want to let the company exploit their labor. A support page notes that, if a streamer opts out, their streams (and on-demand versions of those), clips, stream chats and any other text and images on their channel won't be fed into Amazon's models in the future. The purpose of these models, Twitch says, "is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images or video." Streamers' content may still be used for other AI- or machine learning-powered purposes, including automated captions. Twitch notes that its AutoMod tool doesn't retain users' data or tap into that to generate any material.