… Instead, Sovereign AI fund will focus on investing in domestic startups capable of commanding sections of the global AI supply chain. “Even the US and China are going to be dependent on other folks,” says Keegan McBride, director of science and technology at the Tony Blair Institute, a think tank f… …
… The funding generated by that tax would go to what Steyer has called the Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund, with some of that money being earmarked for jobs building housing, health care, and modernizing California’s energy infrastructure. “The aim of the initiative will be to strengthen the found… …
… According to a briefing document that Build American AI provided to influencers, the organization is now seeking to “extend beyond left-leaning female lifestyle and family content creators to focus on left-leaning influencers who are political commentators, business/tech leaders, and male lifestyle… …
… OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is backing Merge Labs, with “the long-term mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence.” Meta’s superintelligence group claims that its TRIBE v2 model “acts as a digital twin of human neural activity.” An organization called Unconventional AI is creating a grant… …
… The closest parallel to the AI investor cross-pollination may come from about a decade ago. Japanese telecom giant SoftBank invested billions of dollars in ride-hailing companies around the world, some of which had ambitions of competing against one another in certain countries. …
… The next day, Microsoft’s chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, responded, expressing similar reservations about funding OpenAI while commending the team for sharing its research. “I’d like to see Microsoft Research folks and others at Microsoft work collaboratively with OpenAI without the need t… …
… The political activity prompted numerous campaigns against the automaker Tesla, where Musk is CEO. …
… Just a few days after the White House event, three Democratic senators sent letters to a number of AI companies and data center developers, including xAI, OpenAI, and Meta, expressing concern about specific large-scale data center projects and their potential impact on the environment and the clima… …
… In 2017, Canadian researchers raised alarm when they used $100,000 worth of mail-order DNA to reconstitute the extinct horsepox virus. Critics said the same methodology could be used to construct smallpox, a closely related and deadly virus. …
… While he made the donations in a personal capacity, he said he believed the funding could help put pro-AI candidates in office who have similar goals. …