AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion.  The offer was made in a letter from Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas to Sundar Pichai, who serves as the CEO of both Alphabet and Google. A copy of the letter, provided to Computerworld by Perplexity, pledges to maintain Google as the

As ChatGPT really started to take off back in 2023, an Austin pastor made minor headlines when he used the large language model (LLM) chatbot to lead a 15-minute “shotgun sermon.” The stunt was largely meant to spark a conversation about how we define “what is sacred,” the pastor said at the time. Since that

Last week, OpenAI’s most loyal customers revolted after the company replaced all of its preceding AI models with its newly-released GPT-5 model. Their pleading proved convincing enough for OpenAI to reverse course, with CEO Sam Altman announcing that the company’s GPT-4o model would be reinstated. To say that users have become emotionally attached to OpenAI’s

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no stranger to accusations of lying — but according to one of the company’s most vociferous critics, he has a tick when he does it on camera. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, AI researcher and skeptic Gary Marcus put forth a compelling theory: that viewers can tell when Altman is

Grok, Elon Musk’s “maximum truth-seeking” chatbot, was briefly suspended on August 11 — and nobody, including the xAI bot, knows what really happened. As flagged by Gizmodo, users reported that the chatbot, which declared itself as “MechaHitler” earlier this year, was back online within half an hour. When it came to, Grok began offering some

In the age of the AI boom, it seems that everything’s getting a makeover. The ill-defined software has totally revamped perfectly good products, from workout apps to creative programs like Adobe’s Photoshop to search engines like Google — unless you’re totally unplugged from the internet, the stuff is nearly unavoidable. So it shouldn’t come as

Mental health experts are continuing to sound alarm bells about users of AI chatbots spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia and delusions, a trend they’ve started to refer to as “AI psychosis.” On Monday, University of California, San Francisco research psychiatrist Keith Sakata took to social media to say that he’s seen

SoundHound AI, already a major player in voice assistants, is now giving its technology a pair of eyes. Imagine driving past a landmark and, without pulling out your phone, asking your car, “What’s that building over there?” and getting an instant answer. That’s what SoundHound AI is building.  With the launch of Vision AI, SoundHound’s

NVIDIA’s latest RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU will soon be available in enterprise servers. Systems from Cisco, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro will ship various configurations in 2U servers. Nvidia says they will offer higher performance and efficiency for AI, graphics, simulation, analytics, and industrial applications, and support tasks like AI model

Boar’s Head plans to reopen the Jarratt, Virginia, facility at the center of a deadly Listeria outbreak last year despite federal inspections continuing to find sanitation violations at three of the food company’s other facilities, according to federal records obtained by The Associated Press. The AP obtained 35 pages of inspection reports via a Freedom