
Tech Meme - 6 hours 22 min ago
Hema Parmar / Bloomberg : Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding — Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched a hedge fund that relies on an army of artificial intelligence agents, one of the few using …...

UPI - 7 hours 54 min ago
Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Friday vetoed a bill that would have paused artificial intelligence data center construction in the state for 18 months.

The Guardian - 9 hours 44 min ago
Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issue Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US justice department said on Friday it had intervened in a lawsuit by Elon Musk's xAI challenging a Colorado law aimed at regulating artificial intelligence systems. In its intervention, the justice department said the law violates the 14th amendment's equal protection guarantee by requiring companies...

Fortune - 11 hours 6 min ago
Smart glasses use a front facing camera to capture visual input and artificial intelligence to analyze it, converting the information into audio delivered through speakers built into the frame.

Tech Meme - 11 hours 7 min ago
CNBC : Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD — Intel shares soared 24% on Friday, their best performance since October 1987, as investors cheered signs of renewed growth due to mounting artificial intelligence demand.

Tech Meme - 11 hours 22 min ago
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg : Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology — Stanford University professor James Zou is raising money at a roughly $1 billion valuation to build artificial intelligence models …...

Smithsonian - 11 hours 29 min ago
Dataland's immersive exhibitions, generated with artificial intelligence, will debut to the public on June 20, with an inaugural show about rainforests trained on millions of images of nature...

New York Times - 13 hours 43 min ago
Google investment in Anthropic tightens the companies' relationship even as they compete in some areas.

Tech Meme - 14 hours 37 min ago
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg : The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas — The Trump administration is joining Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI in its legal challenge to Colorado's new state law that seeks …...

The Guardian - 15 hours 3 min ago
Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100. According to new data quietly published this week, energy use by AI datacentres in the UK could cause the emission of up to 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO ) about as much as generated by 2.7 million people...

How-To Geek - 15 hours 59 min ago
Microsoft has essentially allowed all Windows 11 user to dump Copilot, its Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) assistant, with a few caveats.

The Hill - 17 hours 46 min ago
Meta informed staff this week it will cut 10 percent of workers as it invests billions into artificial intelligence products. The memo, sent Thursday by Meta's Chief People Office Janelle Gale, said the cut will take place on May 20, and 6,000 open roles will be closed. The memo was published by Bloomberg and the...

Tech Meme - 21 hours 37 min ago
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC : Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models — BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles …...