Author: Advanced AI Editor

Tesla’s Board of Directors has proposed a new pay package for company CEO Elon Musk that would result in $1 trillion in stock offerings if he is able to meet several lofty performance targets. Musk, who has not been meaningfully compensated since 2017, completed his last pay package by delivering billions in shareholder value through a variety of performance-based “tranches,” which were met and resulted in the award of billions in stock. Elon Musk’s new pay plan ties trillionaire status to Tesla’s $8.5 trillion valuation However, Musk was unable to claim this award due to a ruling by the Delaware…

Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNurPhoto via Getty Images AI chatbots are getting dramatically worse at spreading falsehoods, according to a new analysis, with Inflection, Perplexity and Meta the worst offenders. NewsGuard researchers looked at how the world’s ten leading generative AI tools – OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5, You.com’s Smart Assistant, xAI’s Grok, Inflection’s Pi, Mistral’s le Chat, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta AI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity’s answer engine – handle provably false claims. And on average, they found, the chatbots spread false claims when prompted with questions about controversial news topics 35% of the time – almost double the…

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A court in Argentina has charged the daughter and son-in-law of a top Nazi official of stashing away WWII-looted art.  Iconic designer Giorgio Armani, who was also a supporter of contemporary art, has died at 91.  The Louvre museum named Bénédicte Savoy as the next “Chaire du Louvre.”  The Headlines NAZI’S DAUGHTER CHARGED. An Argentine court has charged the daughter and son-in-law of Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien with hiding looted artworks, AFP reported Friday. Kadgien, a financial adviser to Adolf Hitler, fled to Argentina after the war and died there in 1978. Police raided his family’s…

San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system made by billionaire Tom Siebel’s C3 AI that was supposed to level up its police work. Three years into the project, cops say they still haven’t seen the benefits. In June 2022, San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office organized a “day of fun” down at the Coyote Point Shooting Range. The department’s IT team and staff from C3 AI, a $2.4 billion market cap company founded by billionaire Tom Siebel, were invited to celebrate their work on a new surveillance system intended to unify police data from agencies across…

Flow-based 3D generation models typically require dozens of sampling steps during inference. Though few-step distillation methods, particularly Consistency Models (CMs), have achieved substantial advancements in accelerating 2D diffusion models, they remain under-explored for more complex 3D generation tasks. In this study, we propose a novel framework, MDT-dist, for few-step 3D flow distillation. Our approach is built upon a primary objective: distilling the pretrained model to learn the Marginal-Data Transport. Directly learning this objective needs to integrate the velocity fields, while this integral is intractable to be implemented. Therefore, we propose two optimizable objectives, Velocity Matching (VM) and Velocity Distillation (VD),…

OpenAI is set to produce its own artificial intelligence chip for the first time next year, as the ChatGPT maker attempts to address insatiable demand for computing power and reduce its reliance on chip giant Nvidia. The chip, co-designed with US semiconductor giant Broadcom, would ship next year, according to multiple people familiar with the partnership. Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan on Thursday referred to a mystery new customer committing to $10 billion in orders. OpenAI’s move follows the strategy of tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Meta, which have designed their own specialised chips to run AI workloads.…

DeepSeek and Meituan MPNGY are emerging as China’s strongest contenders in the escalating race to challenge OpenAI, Microsoft MSFT, Alibaba BABA, and Tencent TCEHY in global artificial intelligence.While both companies are pursuing different strategies, their approaches reflect China’s growing urgency to carve out leadership in next-generation AI technologies.Hangzhou-based DeepSeek is betting on a new agent-focused AI model designed to execute multi-step tasks with minimal user input, retain learning from past actions, and function with greater autonomy than existing chatbots, Bloomberg reported Thursday.Also Read: Alibaba Faces Fierce AI Talent Poaching As Rivals Lure Top Qwen Model EngineersFounder Liang Wenfeng is targeting…

What if the future of AI wasn’t just smarter but also more private, efficient, and accessible? Enter EmbeddingGemma, a new open model designed to transform how text embeddings are generated and used. Developed by Google DeepMind, this compact powerhouse doesn’t just promise innovative performance, it delivers it directly on your device. Imagine running advanced AI tasks like semantic search or clustering without relying on the cloud, all while safeguarding your data and conserving resources. In a world where privacy concerns and resource limitations often clash with the demands of innovation, EmbeddingGemma boldly bridges the gap, setting a new standard for…

The Gist Personalization is priority. 31% of CX leaders are strongly positive about AI’s potential to personalize experiences, making it the top goal. Cost is the main hurdle. 42% cite tool expenses as their biggest AI challenge, with prediction accuracy and data integration also weighing heavily. CSAT defines success. Customer satisfaction scores are the leading KPI for judging AI-driven CX, ahead of efficiency or retention. Marketing feels the impact. 64% believe AI is transforming campaigns most, showing its strongest influence on CX strategy. AI-driven insights are reshaping customer experience (CX). What once felt experimental is now becoming a central part…

Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open-source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT. After she graduated, she decided to expand on that vision to build a product that could not only track model versions, but provide a way to operationalize them — and Verta was born. Today, that company emerged from stealth with a $10 million Series A led by Intel Capital with participation from General Catalyst, which also led the company’s $1.7 million seed round. Beyond providing…