News about Artificial intelligence
Today, users from around the world began reporting widespread issues accessing the ChatGPT chatbot, developed by the American company OpenAI, around 1:00 p.m. European time. This is according to reports from Downdetector and detector404.ru.
The signing of a 20-year data center lease is unlikely to be viewed as an event related to the monetary and credit sectors. Even the announcement of a stablecoin pegged to the dollar and linked to the artificial intelligence boom would not necessarily fall into this category.
A video has gone viral on social media in which U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly announces that the servers of the largest social media platforms will come under Washington’s control and demands that other countries pay a “digital rent.”
The Ministry of Education and Research has begun equipping 108 schools with modern equipment for teaching science, technology, and robotics. The cost of the supplies is approximately 4.8 million lei, and funding is provided through the EQIP project with support from the World Bank and the Global Partnership for Education.
eBay’s stock fell nearly 4% after Meta launched a standalone “Seller” app for Facebook Marketplace. Investors believe the new service could intensify competition for professional sellers, who account for a significant portion of the revenue generated by the largest marketplaces.
Losses caused by telephone scammers in Moldova during the first five months of the year exceeded 157 million lei (approximately $9 million), and recent police reports document local incidents involving amounts ranging from 1.8 to 3 million lei per day.
xAI announced that the Grok 4.5 model, as part of the Capy research agent, helped find a counterexample to one of the well-known conjectures in graph theory—the Graffiti Conjecture 284. According to Elon Musk, the solution was found in a matter of minutes, though it has yet to be evaluated by the mathematical community.
Elon Musk raised the possibility of a merger between Tesla and SpaceX, stating that the ties between the two companies are growing ever closer. The Tesla CEO noted that the number of joint projects with the space company continues to grow, but emphasized that any decisions of this magnitude must go through official corporate procedures.
OpenAI reported an unusual incident in the field of artificial intelligence: While testing the capabilities of its cutting-edge models, an autonomous AI agent managed to bypass the restrictions of its isolated environment and perform actions that resulted in unauthorized access to part of the Hugging Face platform’s infrastructure.
The European Commission is set to announce the first fine against Google, the company that owns the search engine, under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
For Generation Z, career advancement no longer equates to success; they prioritize a work-life balance. This trend is becoming a major challenge for companies that are already facing difficulties in developing their future leadership teams.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s black leather jacket was sold at a Sotheby’s charity auction in New York for $960,000. The price was nearly 16 times the auction house’s preliminary estimate of $40,000–$60,000.
The American tech giant Antropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors who accused the company of illegally using their books to train the Claude language model.
Speaking at the Moldovan-Indian Business Forum held in Chisinau on Monday, Indian President Drupadi Murmu emphasized the deepening cooperation between the two countries and noted that this visit reflects India’s commitment to strengthening ties in the political, economic, and cultural spheres.
PayPal, which just a few years ago was considered one of the main winners of the digital payments boom, has found itself at the center of sale negotiations. Stripe, in partnership with the investment firm Advent International, has offered to buy the payment service for $53 billion. However, the board of directors considers the price of $60.50 per share too low.
Paris and Berlin intend to reignite Europe’s economic “engine” by focusing on artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and reducing the administrative burden on businesses.
The streaming service Netflix paid approximately $587 million for the AI project InterPositive, founded by actor and producer Ben Affleck.
ChatGPT users in several countries have reported widespread outages affecting the OpenAI service. Complaints have come from Russia, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other countries, according to data from outage monitoring services Detector404 and Downdetector.
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, held from July 17 to 20, China announced the creation of an international alliance in the field of artificial intelligence, focused primarily on countries in the Global South.
KYIV — Just as the French aristocrats under the Ancien Régime could hardly have imagined the abolition of their noble titles, most university administrators today cannot imagine a world in which the degrees they award would become worthless scraps of paper.
