Microsoft Deepens $135B Stake as OpenAI Becomes Public-Benefit Corporation - The renewed partnership keeps the pillars that made the collaboration successful: OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner, and Microsoft retains exclusive intellectual property (IP) rights and Azure API exclusivity until the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). At the same time, both companies have introduced a series of new guidelines designed to give each more flexibility for independent innovation while maintaining accountability and shared safety oversight.

1X’s NEO Home Robot Launches: $20K or $499/Month for Household Chores - If you’ve ever dreamed of having Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons helping around the house, that future may have finally arrived. With the debut of 1X’s NEO Home Robot, everyday chores are about to meet a new kind of intelligence — one that walks, learns, and even tells jokes.

PayPal Becomes First Digital Wallet Integrated Into ChatGPT - For the first time, conversational AI and digital payments are coming together as PayPal partners with OpenAI to embed its wallet directly into ChatGPT, turning conversation into commerce. Starting next year, both sides of PayPal’s ecosystem will plug into ChatGPT: consumers can purchase items they discover through the AI tool, while merchants can sell their products directly through it.

Eli Lilly, Nvidia partner to build supercomputer, AI factory for drug discovery and development - Eli Lilly and Nvidia are partnering to build what the companies call the pharmaceutical industry’s “most powerful” supercomputer and so-called AI factory to help accelerate drug discovery and development across the broader sector. This will help harness AI to try to shorten the time it takes to bring cures to patients, while reducing costs at every stage of the drug discovery and development process.

Adobe launches AI assistants for Express and Photoshop - Adobe has created a new mode that lets you use text prompts to create new images and designs. You can switch on the assistant mode to use AI prompts and then switch back to use editing tools and controls that are available in Express in the current version.

Nvidia becomes first public company worth $5 trillion - The milestone comes just three months after Nvidia became the first company to cross the $4 trillion milestone. Its stock has surged more than 50% so far this year, buoyed by seemingly insatiable demand for its graphics processing units (GPU).

ElevenLabs CEO says AI audio models will be ‘commoditized’ over time - “Over the long term, it will commoditize — over the next couple of years,” Staniszewski said. “Even if there’s differences — which I think will be the truth for some voices, some languages — on its own, the differences will be smaller.”

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