OpenAI staff debated alerting Canadian police about violent ChatGPT logs months before a deadly school shooting
Jesse Van Rootselaar left digital warning signs across multiple platforms before her shooting rampage in Tumbler Ridge, including in ChatGPT conversations. About a dozen OpenAI employees debated internally whether to alert Canadian police. Management decided against it. The case exposes a dilemma facing the entire online industry and AI chatbot companies in particular.
OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected to land between $200 and $300. According to The Information, the device packs a camera and facial recognition for purchases. It uses video to scan its surroundings and serve up proactive suggestions, like telling you to hit the sack early before a big meeting. A court filing from Vice President Peter Welinder puts the earliest ship date at February 2027.
CEO Sam Altman has teased at least one device reveal for 2026. OpenAI isn't alone in this race. Companies like Meta and Apple are making similar bets on AI hardware as the next big computing platform.
Deepmind veteran David Silver raises $1B seed round to build superintelligence without LLMs
Long-time DeepMind researcher David Silver is raising one billion dollars for his London-based AI start-up Ineffable Intelligence, the largest seed round in European start-up history. Instead of training on internet text like today’s LLMs, Silver is betting on reinforcement learning in simulated environments to build an “endlessly learning superintelligence.”
World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog post from the company. World Labs builds so-called world models - AI systems designed to understand the three-dimensional world and make decisions within it. According to Bloomberg, Autodesk alone contributed 200 million dollars.
We are focused on accelerating our mission to advance spatial intelligence by building world models that revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and beyond.
Late last year, World Labs launched its first product "Marble," which generates 3D worlds from images or text. The startup says it will use the new funding to expand into robotics and science applications. World Labs didn't disclose its valuation, but Bloomberg previously reported talks at around 5 billion dollars. Li is known for her work on the ImageNet project, which played a major role in advancing modern image recognition.
Manus launches its AI agent on Telegram, letting users run complex tasks directly in chat. Telegram is the first supported platform, with more on the way. Users connect via QR code, and it's available to everyone regardless of subscription tier.
Manus Agents brings the full web version's capabilities to chat, according to Manus: multi-step tasks, research, data processing, and document creation. Users can send voice messages, images, and files, and choose between two models: Manus 1.6 Max for complex tasks and Manus 1.6 Lite for quick queries. Manus says the agent can't access other Telegram chats. More details are on the Manus website.
