Carl Franzen

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI reasoning models — those that produce “chains-of-thought” (CoT) in text and reflect on their own analysis to try and catch errors midstream before outputting a response — are all the rage now thanks to the likes of DeepSeek and OpenAI’s “o” series. Still, it’s pretty incredible to me the speed at which the reasoning model

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Thanks to Her and numerous other works of science fiction, it’s pretty easy to imagine a world in which everyone has their own personalized AI assistant — a helper who knows who we are, our occupations, our hobbies, our goals and passions, our likes and dislikes…what makes us “tick,” essentially. Some AI tools today offer a

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More There’s almost never a dull moment on the AI beat, and today was no exception: The Wall Street Journal this afternoon reported that a consortium of private investors led by the world’s wealthiest man, the multi-company owning Elon Musk, had presented a bid of $97.4 billion to OpenAI’s non-profit board of directors to acquire the for-profit

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google’s Gemini series of AI large language models (LLMs) started off rough nearly a year ago with some embarrassing incidents of image generation gone awry, but it has steadily improved since then, and the company appears to be intent on making its second-generation effort — Gemini 2.0 — the biggest and best yet for consumers and

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has released a new proprietary AI model in time to counter the rapid rise of open source rival DeepSeek-R1 — but will it be enough to blunt the latter’s success? Today, after several days of rumors and increasing anticipation among AI users on social media, OpenAl is debuting o3-mini, the second model in its new

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Speaking for myself, interacting with any merchant’s AI-powered chatbot on their website is often an exercise in frustration. Phone trees with robot voices are typically worse. I’d wager I’m hardly alone in my assessment. Who amongst us hasn’t experienced long hold times, slow responses, lack of updated information and awareness of the customer’s own account history,

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project. Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale service Square, mobile payments system Cash App, music streaming service Tidal, and

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis (quant) firm High-Flyer Capital Management, has sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and the wider world with its release earlier this week of a new open source large reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, which matches OpenAI’s most powerful available

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The AI media tech provider Runway has announced the release of Frames, its newest text-to-image generation model, and it’s winning early praise from users for producing highly cinematic visuals — a fitting compliment given Runway is known primarily as an AI video model provider. Could Frames dethrone Midjourney as the go-to choice for AI filmmakers and