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Meta plans to unveil a new AI research lab dedicated to “superintelligence” as the company works to compete in the AI race, according to several reports. Meta has tapped Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to join the new lab, The New York Times reports. Meta has been in talks to invest billions into Scale AI as part of a deal that would bring Scale AI employees to Meta. Meta has also been poaching lead researchers from OpenAI and Google, per the Times.  The new lab comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg grows frustrated with his company’s AI shortfalls.…

OpenAI experienced a partial outage on Tuesday morning that created some issues for users trying to access ChatGPT, Sora, and the API, the company said on its status page. The company started investigating the issues late on Monday night, but the partial outage has persisted through Tuesday morning. Around 5:30 am PT on Tuesday, OpenAI says it identified the issue and started working to fix it. However, at roughly 8 am PT, OpenAI said full recovery across its services may take “another few hours,” meaning folks logging onto work on the West Coast of the United States won’t be able…

French AI lab Mistral is getting into the reasoning AI model game. On Tuesday morning, Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI’s o3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics. Magistral comes in two flavors: Magistral Small and Magistral Medium. Magistral Small is 24 billion parameters in size, and is available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. (Parameters are the internal components of a model that…

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion Sanders has not attended football camps in Boulder, Colorado, this spring.The University of Colorado said it couldn’t comment on a reason for his absence. ESPN, citing a source it did not name, said Sanders has been ill and out of the office recently.Over the weekend, his son Deion Sanders Jr. posted a livestream video on YouTube in which he said his father remains at his Texas home and “feeling well,” according to USA Today. His son added in the video: “He’ll tell y’all soon enough what he’s going through.”Sanders is required to operate a minimum…

Karen Read’s second murder trial continued Tuesday with testimony from a defense expert who says John O’Keefe likely smashed his skull during a fall backward, but did not die from hypothermia as a medical examiner previously suggested.After retaking the stand, Elizabeth Laposata, a forensic pathologist and former medical examiner, told jurors she believes O’Keefe fell unconscious immediately after hitting his head on a ridged object and was bitten and scratched by an animal, based on an analysis of his injuries.Her testimony is pivotal to Read’s defense and directly counters testimony from prosecution witnesses.Prosecutors allege the 45-year-old Massachusetts woman backed into…

2025-06-10T14:09:51Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. ChatGPT experienced some issues on Tuesday morning. Outage reports spiked on DownDetector. OpenAI said it’s “identified the root cause for the issue” and is “working on implementing a mitigation.” If you ran into ChatGPT errors while trying to use AI to prep for your morning meeting today, it wasn’t just you.ChatGPT isn’t…

NEW YORK (AP) — The sounds of muffled percussion and audience cheers reverberate throughout the grounds. Brand activations, makeshift bars and restaurant pop-ups control traffic as a sea of bodies move from set to set. Sandwiched between is a row of nonprofits across familiar causes: hunger, housing and voter registration.It’s a common music festival scene, until closer inspection. There is a new table, This Must Be the Place. The Ohio-based nonprofit offers attendees free opioid overdose reversal treatment and training on how to use it, an education acquired in under two minutes. Just a few years ago, their inclusion might’ve…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage.Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8:00 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI’s generative AI tools.Most of the problems — 92% — were related to ChatGPT, the company’s generative AI chatbot, according to Downdetector.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe widespread outage had persisted for about six hours as of around 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, according to OpenAI, which acknowledged in a statement on its site that it is “experiencing…

Chuncheon, South Korea AP  —  K-pop superstars RM and V are the latest members of BTS to be discharged from South Korea’s military after fulfilling their mandatory service. They each saluted upon their release Tuesday in Chuncheon City as about 200 fans, some of whom traveled from Mexico, Turkey and Brazil, cheered. Reina Lorena Quintero Sevilla spent nearly 18 hours on a plane from Mexico City. “I swear, it didn’t feel that long because we’re so excited to be here, to watch the boys get released, excited to be in South Korea, in the hometowns of our boys, who we…

Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report.  Now that people can simply ask a chatbot for answers – sometimes generated from news content taken without a publisher’s knowledge – there’s no need to click on Google’s blue links. That means referrals to news sites are plummeting, cutting off the traffic publishers need to sustain quality journalism.  Google released AI Overviews, its search result summary tool, last year. Its rollout hit traffic to sites like vacation guides, health tips, and product reviews, per the Journal. AI Mode,…