Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…How much has this been a gift? They've been wonderful partners in raising up the issue of AI regulation and AI safety. My plan coming into this race was to talk…
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The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
In December, Black Forest Labs raised funds at a $3.25 billion valuation, after signing deals to power AI image-generation features in Adobe and the graphic design platform Canva. It has…
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
…Gen Z has inherited something fundamentally different: an information ecosystem where truth is increasingly shaped socially, emotionally, algorithmically, and now synthetically through AI. As journalist Maria Ressa warned in her Nobel Prize…
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
…Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos AI Tool Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI model has been touted as a dangerously capable tool for finding security vulnerabilities in software and…
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
…It completed six rounds of fundraising in just 13 months from investors including the Chinese government, Alibaba’s Ant Group, and HongShan Capital, Sequoia Capital’s Chinese spinoff. LinkerBot is now seeking…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…AMI (pronounced like the French word for friend) aims to build “a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and…
5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
…While you may consider chatbots to be practical financial assistants, it's always worth keeping the limitations of these AI tools in mind. Beyond miscalculations, here are five additional reasons to approach…
Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems
…On Wednesday, the company rolled out a series of water-related commitments to communities where it has data centers, along with funding announcements for water-related projects in the US. They include…
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
…The companies announced in late March that Crusoe would be building new buildings on the Abilene campus, including a power plant, to support Microsoft’s AI infrastructure. (Microsoft declined to comment.) There…
AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
…The startup has so far raised $4 million in seed funding from Google’s Jeff Dean, Wojciech Zaremba of OpenAI, and others. Andere believes that his company’s AI-led approach has…