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Sam Altman is one of the most closely watched figures in Silicon Valley today. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sam Altman turns 40 today (April 22), entering middle age not in quiet retreat but at the peak of global influence. Altman’s career follows a familiar Silicon Valley arc: a gifted young coder, a college dropout and an early startup founder. But it wasn’t until he turned OpenAI from an obscure nonprofit into a $300 billion tech powerhouse that Altman truly became a household name. In the age of ChatGPT, Altman isn’t just building products—he’s shaping the very terms of our future. We don’t…

Just like with SEO, it can be tempting to use clever hacks to optimize for AI search. But the problem with hacks is that, as soon as they’re discovered, changes will be made that make those hacks ineffective. Consider the Rank Or Go Home Challenge, where Kyle Roof managed to get his website a top ranking for the string “Rhinoplasty Plano,” despite 98% of the site being “lorem ipsum” text. Within 24 hours of Google hearing about this, the site was de-indexed. The same holds true for AI search, but here, the system is changing at a breakneck pace. What…

[Submitted on 3 Apr 2025 (v1), last revised 21 Apr 2025 (this version, v3)] View a PDF of the paper titled Scaling Video-Language Models to 10K Frames via Hierarchical Differential Distillation, by Chuanqi Cheng and 3 other authors View PDF Abstract:Long-form video processing fundamentally challenges vision-language models (VLMs) due to the high computational costs of handling extended temporal sequences. Existing token pruning and feature merging methods often sacrifice critical temporal dependencies or dilute semantic information. We introduce differential distillation, a principled approach that systematically preserves task-relevant information while suppressing redundancy. Based on this principle, we develop ViLaMP, a hierarchical video-language…

Anthropic on Wednesday introduced Claude’s Max plan, a new subscription tier for its viral chatbot and ChatGPT competitor. The plan has two price points — $100 per month or $200 per month — offering different amounts of usage. Subscribers will get “priority access to new models and capabilities,” including Claude’s voice mode when it launches. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon, on Wednesday introduced Claude’s Max plan, a new subscription tier for its chatbot that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Customers can pay $100 per month for five times the amount of usage as the company’s Pro plan, or $200…

Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry since 2017. This year’s edition, the eighth, is the “most comprehensive” report to date, spanning more than 430 pages. The authors say it’s arriving at a critical juncture as the influence of AI across society rapidly accelerates with the emergence of increasingly capable and sophisticated…

20 March 2025, Bavaria, Munich: The IBM logo at the headquarters of IBM Germany in the Highlight … More Towers in Parkstadt Schwabing in Munich (Bavaria). Photo: Matthias Balk/dpa (Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images International Business Machines is set to announce its earnings on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Historical trends indicate that the stock often responds positively to earnings releases. Over the last five years, IBM has delivered positive one-day returns in 60% of earnings announcements, with a median gain of 4.8% and a maximum single-day jump of 13%. Trefis For event-driven traders,…

An MIT student has sued the federal government over its abrupt termination of her international student record in a federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security.The student, an MIT senior set to graduate in May, learned her record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, was abruptly deleted in early April, putting her at risk of detainment by immigration enforcement agents.Several dozen international students in Massachusetts, and over a thousand nationwide, had their visas revoked and SEVIS records expunged by the federal government in recent days. The reason behind the moves remain unclear, and federal…

Gustavo Nazareno “Eshu” 2025 © Estúdio em obra© Estúdio em obra Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno is making significant strides in the international art world, with a solo exhibition due to open at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago in tandem with a presentation at EXPO Chicago. Nazareno–born in 1994 in Três Pontas and currently based in São Paulo–has become known for powerful paintings exploring Afro-Brazilian spirituality. Curated by Danny Dunson, the DuSable Black History Museum exhibition will showcase Nazareno’s unique art which merges influences of the Yoruba pantheon and Candomblé traditions with elements of spirituality. Nazareno’s…

New reports out today from Crunchbase Inc. and PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reveal that global venture capital rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2025, posting its strongest performance since mid-2022. However, both datasets point to a growing division in the startup ecosystem where a small set of companies and sectors, particularly artificial intelligence, are capturing an outsized share of investment. According to Crunchbase, total global startup funding reached $113 billion in the first quarter, up 17% from the previous quarter and an impressive 54% year-over-year. Though the headline figure is positive, the number was slanted by one single deal: OpenAI’s…

By Evan Caron While Silicon Valley obsesses over the latest AI hallucinations, the real revolution is powering the computer you’re reading this on. It’s the electron economy — where electricity becomes as programmable as software. The $21 trillion gold rush Twenty-one trillion dollars. That’s how much will be invested in the energy transition, according to BloombergNEF. For context, that’s 20x investments in AI to date and more than the combined market cap of every FAANG — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — stock. And here’s the kicker: the biggest returns won’t come from solar panels. They’ll come from making…