Senior AI Reporter
Kylie Robison is a Senior AI Reporter for The Verge, working closely with The Verge’s policy and tech teams. She joined The Verge from Fortune, where she extensively covered the inner-workings of Elon Musk’s X with scoops on its plans to begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features, its plans to remove headlines from news articles, a chaotic internal all-hands after the platform sued Media Matters, and more. She authored the magazine’s cover story on OpenAI and has also profiled buzzy AI startups like Runway. She lives in San Francisco with her cat, who regularly appears in the background of her meetings. She spends her free time snowboarding, traveling, and playing games on her Nintendo Switch.
You can reach her on Signal: @kylie.01
Ethics statement, May 2024: Kylie's parent is employed by GitHub. She therefore does not currently report or edit stories about GitHub products or GitHub as a company.
According to a post from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ChatGPT Plus subscribers will get access to its new voice feature next week. The company initially demoed this feature back in May, you know, the one that sounded like Scarlett Johansson’s character from the movie Her? They yoinked that voice option though, sorry guys.
This will be interesting to test out, especially ahead of ChatGPT getting baked into Siri.
Two specialized AI systems from DeepMind, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry, were able to solve four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). This is a big deal because AI is really bad at math. Have you seen the posts about ChatGPT saying 9.11 is bigger than 9.9?
The IMO represents a “litmus test” that suggests researchers could make bigger future breakthroughs, DeepMind VP David Silver said in a press briefing.
Kamala Harris hasn’t said a lot about tech policy, but here’s what we know
This is what we’ve pieced together about her views on AI, privacy, antitrust and more.
House music and technology are my two favorite things, and finally, I’ve found a way to write about them both.
Thanks to the CrowdStrike fail that caused chaos in systems across the globe, a DJ named Chris Lake is facing challenges with his concert in New York tonight. One of the DJs, Andruss, can’t make it, so they’ve had to adjust the lineup to fill his spot.
The Anthology Fund (a play on the Anthropic name) is a new AI fund aimed at supporting the next generation of AI startups— and it’s accepting applications. It will invest in seed and Series A startups with check sizes starting at $100K.
If accepted, startups will also get access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models with $25,000 in free credits.