
ABC News - 3 hours 19 min ago
Shares in the financial technology company Block have soared more than 20% in after-hours trading after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 some employees due to efficiency gains from artificial intelligence...

The Guardian - 3 hours 34 min ago
Speaking at Milan fashion week, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented a more concentrated, but relatable, show Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the co-designers of Prada, said backstage at Milan fashion week that fashion's greatest challenges were inequality and artificial intelligence. An interesting perspective, since Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire owner of Meta, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, sat next to Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada's husband, in the front row. Continue reading...

Newser - 4 hours 34 min ago
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that the artificial intelligence company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to allow unrestricted use of its technology, deepening a public clash with the Trump administration that is threatening to pull its contract and take other drastic steps by Friday, the...

The Independent - 5 hours 34 min ago
Journalists at the investigative outlet ProPublica have pledged to strike if negotiations for a contract don't take a turn in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news industry where a dispute over how to deal with artificial intelligence is the chief sticking point...

Tech Meme - 7 hours 4 min ago
Tamsin McMahon / Bloomberg : xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the company, the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to depart; Elon Musk put Pohlen in charge of Macrohard earlier this month — xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen said he is leaving Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, the latest founding executive to depart …...

New York Times - 7 hours 41 min ago
Jeff Dean, the chief scientist of Google DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence division, at a company event in 2018.

NPR - 8 hours 15 min ago
The Defense Department has been feuding with Anthropic over military uses of its artificial intelligence tools. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and access to some of the most advanced AI on the planet.

BBC - 10 hours 28 min ago
The Twitter co-founder says artificial intelligence "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company."...

The Guardian - 11 hours 6 min ago
Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model Anthropic said Thursday it "cannot in good conscience" comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities. The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a "supply chain risk", a designation with serious financial implications...

Tech Meme - 11 hours 44 min ago
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News : The Pentagon says it has offered compromises to Anthropic, including putting in writing that laws already bar the military from mass surveillance of Americans — Add CBS News on Google — As the U.S. military's partnership with artificial intelligence giant Anthropic teeters on the edge of collapse …...

NBC News - 12 hours 32 min ago
Technology journalist Jacob Ward, host of "The Rip Current," joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss tensions between the Department of Defense and AI giant Anthropic, as the Pentagon issues an ultimatum the company's demand for guardrails. Matt Dixon reports on Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' concerns regarding the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence.

Tech Meme - 12 hours 39 min ago
Reuters : CoreWeave reports Q4 revenue up 110% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.55B est., and adjusted loss of $284M, vs. $258.9M est.; CRWV drops 5%+ after hours — CoreWeave (CRWV.O) beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom that has driven companies …...

Tech Meme - 13 hours 4 min ago
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10%+ after hours — Dell (DELL.N) forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, betting on growing demand for its artificial intelligence-optimized servers …...

The Hill - 13 hours 58 min ago
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) proposal for a national moratorium on data centers, deeming the idea as an intentional "surrender" to China amid their rapid development of artificial intelligence. "A moratorium on data centers would would be like, we might as well wave the surrender flag to China...

NPR - 15 hours 12 min ago
Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it's not just big tech aligning the two parties.

Digital Music News - 15 hours 32 min ago
The Irish Recorded Music Association hosted a briefing for members of Irish parliament on pursuing ethical AI framework to protect Irish musicians. On Wednesday, the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) hosted a briefing for Members of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), focused on the growing role of artificial intelligence in the music sector. Music contributes approximately […]...

NBC News - 16 hours 57 min ago
Americans are increasingly encountering and using artificial intelligence technologies like Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

Newser - 18 hours 2 min ago
Canada's new artificial intelligence minister says OpenAI had few answers when pressed about its decision to ban the ChatGPT account of a future mass shooter without informing police of her concerning messages. Evan Solomon said he left a Tuesday meeting with senior OpenAI officials "disappointed," after asking why the company...

CNBC - 18 hours 58 min ago
Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI sunk after widely missing earnings and announcing layoffs under new CEO Ehikian's restructuring plan.

Deadline Hollywood - 19 hours 34 min ago
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. For many, artificial intelligence is a harbinger of doom […]...

Forbes - 20 hours 34 min ago
For AI to achieve its limitless potential, there must be trust in it from the same human population that has given it life.

Deadline Hollywood - 20 hours 34 min ago
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Jordan Goldnadel has launched AiSpasia Studios, an AI animation firm based out of New York. AiSpasia is being positioned as “pioneering the ethical and artist-driven use of artificial intelligence in animation.” Goldnadel’s plan is to explore how AI tools can “creative possibilities while protecting artistic authorship, labor integrity, and human storytelling,” he said. […]...

ABC News - 21 hours 33 min ago
U.S. futures were in a holding pattern after stronger-than-expected earnings from chipmaker Nvidia helped ease some investor worries over the artificial intelligence boom...

The Guardian - 21 hours 48 min ago
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Artificial intelligence is boosting productivity in the euro zone but it is not yet causing a wave of layoffs due to greater automation of labour, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has claimed. Testifying to the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs committee this morning, Lagarde said: "What we are seeing for the moment is that it's increasing productivity. But we are not yet seeing consequences...