
Tech Meme - 1 hour 38 min ago
Bloomberg : Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round at a $900B+ valuation, after previously resisting investor proposals at an $800B+ valuation — Anthropic PBC has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the artificial intelligence developer at more than $900 billion …...

The Hill - 2 hours 10 min ago
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story States take up kids online safety as Congress stalls State prosecutors are turning up the heat on social media and artificial intelligence companies over their safeguards for children as federal lawmakers remain at an impasse on the issue. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana From new investigations to a...

The Guardian - 2 hours 14 min ago
Actor and presenter broke his hip, right leg, pelvis and ribs when he gave a talk at CogX festival at O2 Arena in 2023 Stephen Fry is suing two companies that organised a tech conference where he was injured in 2023 after falling off the stage, high court documents show. The actor and presenter broke his hip and had multiple breaks in his right leg, pelvis and ribs when he attended the CogX festival at the O2 Arena, where he delivered a talk on artificial intelligence on 14 September 2023. Continue...

ABC News - 2 hours 34 min ago
Google's transition into the era of artificial intelligence continued to pay off for its corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., which on Wednesday announced another quarter of the stellar growth that helped to more than double its already lofty market value ...

Tech Meme - 2 hours 58 min ago
Financial Times : Google has told employees in a memo that it "proudly" works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over DOD contracts — The tech giant signed an artificial intelligence deal with the defence department on Monday...

Tech Meme - 3 hours 3 min ago
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of $402M, vs. $488.8M est., and a $4.03B operating loss, vs. $4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 — As Meta pumps increasing amounts of cash into artificial intelligence, the company's metaverse efforts continue to bleed money.

New York Times - 4 hours 22 min ago
SpaceX said a deal with Cursor gave it the option to buy the artificial intelligence start-up, which makes code-writing software, for $60 billion later this year.

The Hill - 6 hours 43 min ago
Blackstone and Anthropic are partnering to use AI to overhaul private equity-owned sectors, potentially leading to mass unemployment, while an AI tax paid with stock could help to share the rewards of AI with the public and give them a greater voice in corporate governance.

Tech Meme - 7 hours 2 min ago
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans a new Siri camera mode in iOS 27 by moving Visual Intelligence, currently tied to the Camera Control button, into the camera app — Apple Inc. is planning to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into the iPhone's camera app, adding a new Siri mode alongside …...

ABC News - 7 hours 47 min ago
The families of victims of a school shooting in a remote Canadian Rockies town are suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI in a U.S. federal court, alleging that the ChatGPT maker failed to alert police to the shooter's alarming interactions with ...

Tech Meme - 12 hours 38 min ago
Jason Gale / Bloomberg : Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis — An artificial intelligence system can spot pancreatic cancer long before it shows up on scans, raising the prospect of catching …...

The Raw Story - 13 hours 21 min ago
President Donald Trump issued Iran a warning Wednesday by demanding that they "better get smart soon" as it relates to reaching a deal with the United States on de-nuclearization, posting an image of himself appearing to have been created with generative artificial intelligence holding an AR-15-style rifle in front of a barrage of explosions. "Iran can't get their act together," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 4:05 AM Eastern. "They don't know...

Tech Meme - 13 hours 38 min ago
Natasha Voase / Bloomberg : Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of all lettings — Artificial intelligence-linked companies ranging from Anthropic PBC to OpenAI have been rushing into London for office space …...

UPI - 13 hours 52 min ago
Seoul stocks closed at a fresh peak on Wednesday, just an inch away from the 6,700 mark, as investors bet chip demand will remain solid amid woes over the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.

Deadline Hollywood - 14 hours 13 min ago
Some UK film and TV industry organizations are imposing “strict internal controls” around artificial intelligence, according to a new report from training body ScreenSkills. The report, which examined skills gaps in the industry and found many to be predicting layoffs in the near future, focused heavily on AI and its adoption in film and TV. […]...

The Guardian - 19 hours 42 min ago
Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent Last July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI choir had been released, quickly becoming an internet sensation. To get ahead of the situation, she recorded her own remix that integrated the AI-assisted song and added it to her discography. "In my view, [that] was smart and very business...

Tech Meme - 21 hours 58 min ago
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries — EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules …...

Nature - 23 hours 43 min ago
Artificial intelligence developers are increasingly building language models with warm and friendly personas that millions of people now use for advice, therapy and companionship1. Here we show how this can create a significant trade-off: optimizing language models for warmth can undermine their performance, especially when users express vulnerability. We conducted controlled experiments on five different language models, training them to produce warmer responses, then evaluating them on consequential...

Nature - 23 hours 43 min ago
A method for identifying representations of concepts in neural networks could provide a more-effective way to control and monitor artificial-intelligence systems.