Ina Fried

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OpenAI slashes Luna pricing - Axios

Business August 1, 2026

The big picture: OpenAI claims it can now deliver substantially more intelligence per dollar through efficiency improvements. Cheaper Chinese open-weight models have also increased pressure … [+933...

Tim Cook says Apple may charge for AI Siri - Axios

Technology July 31, 2026

What they're saying: In a conference call to discuss Apple's most recent quarterly earnings, CEO Tim Cook said Apple is still developing its plan to address the higher computing costs that will come οΏ½...

Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible - Axios

Business July 22, 2026

Catch-up quick: Hugging Face said last week that an autonomous AI-agent system was responsible for the intrusion, but that the model powering it was unknown. The AI agent framework executed … [+274...

Meta's new AI image maker draws fire over consent - Axios

Business July 12, 2026

Meta's move to allow users to create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts is drawing criticism from several camps, including privacy advocates and those who represeοΏ½...

New Googlebook is built for Gemini - Axios

Technology May 15, 2026

Driving the news: The most visible change in the Googlebook is the Magic Pointer, which summons Gemini when a user wiggles their cursor. Googlebooks can run Android apps on the laptop or you… [+136...

Hands-on with ChatGPT's powerful new image engine - Axios

Technology April 23, 2026

Catch up quick: ChatGPT Images 2.0 is now live in the app and supports a wide range of aspect ratios and comes in both standard and a "thinking" mode with built-in reasoning. All users will … [+203...

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos - Axios

Business April 18, 2026

In a chart accompanying its announcement, Anthropic showed that Opus 4.7 beats Opus 4.6, ChatGPT 5.4, Google Gemini 3.1 Pro in a number of key benchmarks.But Opus 4.7 still falls sho… [+2237 chars]

Meta debuts Muse Spark, first AI model under Alexandr Wang - Axios

Business April 9, 2026

Driving the news: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The model accepts voice, tex… [+172...

A day of highs and lows for Team USA - Axios

Sports February 10, 2026

Driving the news: Vonn, 41, was trying to continue her comeback despite a ruptured ACL but crashed shortly into her run and had to be airlifted to a hospital, where she was later diagnosed with a broοΏ½...

Models that improve on their own are AI's next big thing - Axios

Technology January 28, 2026

Known technically as recursive self-improvement, the approach is seen as a key technique that can keep the rapid progress in AI going. Google is actively exploring whether models can "contin… [+286...