AI & Enterprise

Startup Reve to end image generation service after OpenAI investment, shuts on Sept. 27

Image-generation AI startup Reve will end its flagship image-generation service after securing new investment from OpenAI. Reve said image generation on reve.com will be unavailable from 12 p.m. Pacific time on Sept. 27, and new sign-ups and paid subscriptions were halted on Sept. 17. Existing users can download created images until Oct. 31. Paid subscribers who paid September fees will receive full refunds to their original payment method by mid-October.

AI & Enterprise

More than half of AI Safety Institute assessed models are open-weight, 58 percent Chinese

More than half of the AI models assessed by the AI Safety Institute this year were open-weight, it found. Of 34 unique models assessed from January to August, 19 were open-weight and 15 were closed. Chinese models accounted for 11 of the 19 open-weight models, including Kimi, DeepSeek and Qwen. The institute assesses risks such as prompt injection, data leakage and cyber exploits, but cited limited staff and computing resources.