The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
…against AI, like requirements that a human is behind any AI tool being used, that any journalism utilizing AI is transparently labeled, and that staff are compensated for AI model training deals…
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I’m relieved Siri AI isn’t trying to be a health coach
…The vast majority of AI health features are doo-doo dogshit, tedious to train, and require so much of your personal data to be at all effective that it feels ominous. …
Data centers are coming for rural America
…What about upskilling? Most of the lobbying around data centers focuses on job creation and “upskilling,” or training workers for new or better-paying jobs. But according to researchers, even the retraining…
The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world
…The vast majority of critiques and demonstrations against AI have been nonviolent — including local resistance to energy-intensive AI data centers and protests urging a slowdown of the rapidly accelerating technology. Protesters…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
…train models at a larger scale and explicitly pursue superintelligence entirely with our own IP, with our own data, no distillation, training from scratch.” Nadella also highlighted Microsoft’s recently launched AI…
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
…AI companies have broken ground on data centers around the world, dedicating billions of dollars with promises of better models, lower costs, and AI for everyone. Even stemming the flow of losses…
Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air
…That’s not to mention data privacy fears regarding sensitive health information. (On that front, Google says it will continue to keep Fitbit data siloed from its ad business; AI model training…
Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo
…about drain power from a resource-hungry data center for relatively inconsequential tasks? Currently, Spark is only available to subscribers of Google’s AI Ultra plan, which starts at $99.99 per…
AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?
…Flow Machines tech trained on the Beatles’ catalog. (You can tell.) * Companies are working on tech that would allow them to reverse engineer what data AI is trained on, which could lead…
In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
…But he says that some of his former classmates have been forced to take on fleeting gig work training the AI models that are replacing them, and that graduates are right to…