Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
… Other funding came from Lux Capital, Google Ventures, and Catalio, among others. …
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Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
… Google rolled out a new Android feature this week aimed at the wave of AI-powered impersonation scams that help fraudsters spoof a familiar number and clone a person’s voice. …
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
… Despite a nearly 50 percent increase in overall emissions over the past five years Google claimed in its sustainability report last year that it had reduced its data center emissions by 12 percent. …
The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
… OpenAI’s cofounders have repeatedly said, in emails and testimonies, that they have benefited from the nonprofit structure and mission. They argued it gave OpenAI “moral high ground,” which would prove strategically valuable in its quest to overtake Google DeepMind. …
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
… Ineffable Intelligence has so far raised $1.1 billion in seed funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion—an enormous sum by European AI standards. Silver has also recruited top AI researchers from Google DeepMind and other frontier labs to join his endeavor. …
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives for DeepMind employees. “Fundamentally, the push for unionization is about holding Go… …
OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman are among the signatories on a public letter calling for laws requiring companies that sell synthetic DNA and RNA to screen customers and orders to prevent the misuse of genetic mate… …
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
… Google’s unchecked progress on AI development had sparked concerns for both OpenAI cofounders, and they wanted to create a competing lab with a greater focus on safety. “My perspective is OpenAI exists because Larry Page called me a speciesist for being pro-humanity,” Musk said, referring to the Go… …
These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost
… Some Kickstarter backers had been assured “lifetime access to AI,” but the press release for the Berlin glasses says that anyone else won’t get the same deal, saying, “Lifetime AI access for Kickstarter backers is tied exclusively to the device purchased through the crowdfunding campaign and cannot… …
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
… Last year, CEO Demis Hassabis said it would have AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of 2025. Isomorphic Labs was founded in 2021 as a spinoff from Alphabet’s AI research subsidiary, Google DeepMind. …