
Nvidia has partnered with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech firms to form the Open Secure AI Alliance, aiming to develop open-source AI security tools in response to concerns about the safety of advanced AI systems. The alliance seeks to balance the use of both closed and open models to address emerging threats, despite the absence of leading US AI companies like OpenAI and Google. The initiative reflects broader tensions over the openness of AI models, with Chinese companies releasing powerful open-weight models, challenging the strategy of US labs that have kept frontier systems closed.
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Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]
