As a result, I traveled to five continents for my reporting. Between taking you within OpenAI's walls, the book also brings you to places like some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Nairobi, Kenya and to the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on earth. 6/
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Beyond Silicon Valley: Telling AI’s Full Story Across Power Centers
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Like The Crown, EMPIRE OF AI also moves back and forth between the center of power and those far away from it. I learned early on during my 7 years covering AI that you simply cannot tell the full story of this technology and its profound impacts by staying in Silicon Valley. 5/
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Empire of AI: Beyond OpenAI, a Global Power System
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While the book intimately profiles OpenAI and the man at its helm, this book is ultimately not about one man or one company. EMPIRE OF AI is about a global system of power; about our past, present, and future; about the age-old story of dreams and belief, ambition and rivalry. 2/
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Grok Assistant Gets Memory Feature for Personalized Responses
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Elon Musk's xAI started rolling out a memory feature into its Grok assistant (in beta)
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 avril 2025
Just like ChatGPT, Grok will reference past chats to provide personalized answers.
There's also a dedicated "forget" button to exclude specific chats from its memorypic.twitter.com/qCGeHkTfvNElon Musk's xAI started rolling out a memory feature into its Grok assistant (in beta) Just like ChatGPT, Grok will reference past chats to provide personalized answers. There's also a dedicated "forget" button to exclude specific chats from its memory
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Microsoft Rolls Out Copilot Vision in Edge Browser
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Microsoft also started rolling out Copilot Vision in its Edge browser
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 avril 2025
It will read what's on screen to summarize aloud, working as a real-time collaborator/assistant when browsing the internet.
Best part: it's free—and opt-in (not active by default)!pic.twitter.com/5hVj5HtupYMicrosoft also started rolling out Copilot Vision in its Edge browser It will read what's on screen to summarize aloud, working as a real-time collaborator/assistant when browsing the internet. Best part: it's free—and opt-in (not active by default)!
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Microsoft Adds Computer Use Capabilities to Copilot Studio
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Microsft added computer use capabilities to its Copilot Studio The move will allow enterprises to build and deploy agents that can take UI actions on desktop and web apps! A big move!
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Google Expands Gemini Live Project Astra to All Android Users
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Google is expanding Gemini Live's Project Astra capabilities—to all Android users!
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 avril 2025
This will enable users to engage with real-time visual AI and have multilingual conversations about anything seen and heard via their phone's camera or screen sharepic.twitter.com/TMj0A3pa7oGoogle is expanding Gemini Live's Project Astra capabilities—to all Android users! This will enable users to engage with real-time visual AI and have multilingual conversations about anything seen and heard via their phone's camera or screen share
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OpenAI Releases o3 and o4-mini Reasoning Models
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OpenAI dropped the new o3 and o4-mini reasoner models
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 avril 2025
o3 pushes SOTA performance across coding, math, science, and multimodality, while o4-mini offers fast, cost-efficient performance
Both have agentic access to ChatGPT tools and can "think with images"pic.twitter.com/ujg3cvXZg2OpenAI dropped the new o3 and o4-mini reasoner models o3 pushes SOTA performance across coding, math, science, and multimodality, while o4-mini offers fast, cost-efficient performance Both have agentic access to ChatGPT tools and can "think with images"
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OpenAI Releases o3 and o4-mini Models, Latest AI News
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, its smartest models yet Plus, more news from Google, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, Kling AI, and more. Here's everything you need to know: