China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
…that AI labs need infinite funding to scale up their compute capabilities just to make better models. “In the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex,” Ball wrote.
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Meta Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on ICE and Won
…In December, Mbengue’s colleagues launched a fundraising campaign to pay for the legal defense of his brother, who came to the US in 2023 to escape challenging circumstances in Senegal. As…
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
…startups have taken the lead as many of their American counterparts shifted their focus toward large language models and other AI software. For robotics companies, “the valuation gap between the Chinese and…
Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
…release a series called Cupcake & Friends, developed with AI tools. It’s one of three new animated shows greenlit through the GenAI Creators’ Fund, a joint initiative of Amazon Web Services and…
How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions
In early June, Anthropic publicly released Fable 5, a safeguarded version of its most powerful AI model to date, Mythos. Chinese social media immediately lit up with posts from people sharing their…
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
…the AI industry as a whole,” Dalton said. “Numerous teams are dropping everything to enhance our security prevention, detection, and response techniques both in our fundamentals and better use of AI. We…
The Trump Administration Wants to Change Public Engagement Rules for Polluters
…But, he says, that could shift: “Who knows [if] the next administration, whether they would actually change it.” Texas is an example of what lower levels of engagement look like. The data…
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
…adoption of LLMs, Robson says her writing has fundamentally changed for the better, becoming a deliberate inverse of what she sees as AI’s default lack of style. “I find myself writing…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…The model has since shifted toward government and military contracts. But a contract with a private individual whose political positions can shift is a fundamentally different kind of security guarantee than one…
Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different
…their kids small funds to dole out—maybe to something like an animal rights group—to teach them to be decent stewards of wealth. Recently, a top AI executive told me he…