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“I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” he said. While he does acknowledge that “clearly, people did it for a long time,” he says that he has “relied on it so much.”

The feature uses AI to give you more detailed motion notifications, like describing people the camera or doorbell detects, much like the AI video descriptions Ring cameras got earlier this year.

CEO Sam Altman said the emergency designation will finish when the company releases a faster AI model with better images and personality in January, the Wall Street Journal reports. Its first response to Gemini 3, an updated model called GPT-5.2, is set to launch this week.

In a TikTok video, Thompson, former editor-in-chief at Wired and a friend of The Verge, touches on things like the gap between AI’s capabilities and its impact, OpenAI competing with Apple on hardware, memory as OpenAI’s biggest moat, and more.

Here’s AdWeek’s headline:

They used 30 times more electricity on average than other models according to research by the AI Energy Score project that included responses to 1,000 written prompts. “We should be smarter about the way that we use AI ... Choosing the right model for the right task is important,” Hugging Face research scientist Sasha Luccioni tells Bloomberg.

There’s some kind of news coming from the White House this week about AI regulations, after a post from the president to Truth Social saying, “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something. THAT WILL NEVER WORK!”

The White House is planning to give Nvidia the green light to begin exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to China, according to reports from Semafor and the WSJ. As noted by the WSJ, the H200 chip is more powerful than the scaled-down H20 GPU that China has cracked down on, but it still doesn’t rival Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs.

Google’s experimental clothing try-on app now lets you scroll through a “discovery” feed of AI-generated videos with outfits you might like. The app curates the looks — which contain real products — based on the “style preferences you share with Doppl and the items you interact with.”

In the story I wrote about CoreWeave, analyst Gil Luria told me the company has “to keep borrowing more and more because they spend more money than they can get, structurally. They have to continue to borrow to pay interest on the last loan.” Aren’t you glad Nvidia helped them go public?

Footage of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robot falling over at the company’s Autonomy Visualized event is raising questions over its, well, autonomy. We can’t be sure, but it certainly looks like a teleoperator removing a VR headset.

Reuters reports that Meta just bought Limitless, an AI pendant that listens to and summarizes your conversations. It’s a burgeoning category of wearables (see: Bee AI which was bought by Amazon) and hints that like Google, Meta’s interested in perhaps building its own ecosystem of AI-powered gadgets.

The enhanced reasoning mode is only available to Google AI Ultra subscribers through the Gemini app. It’s currently the highest-performing model on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark, with Google saying it’s “designed to tackle complex math, science and logic problems that challenge even the most advanced state-of-the-art models.”

Brett Michael Dadig is being charged with 14 counts of “cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats,” 404 Media reports. Dadig claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT told him to keep producing his women-hating podcast because it gave him more “haters,” which led to more money, and to keep going to places where “wife types” meet up.