
NY Post - 1 hour 22 min ago
Sam Altman's right-hand woman at OpenAI Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave leaving the artificial intelligence giant just as its gearing up for a pivotal public listing. The No. 2 executive relayed her decision in a note to staff Thursday, saying that her medical issue ...

The Next Web - 2 hours 14 min ago
Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, making it easier than ever to transform ideas into working products. According to Stanford's recent report, AI performance on a key coding benchmark jumped from 60% to nearly 100% in a single year, while organizational AI adoption reached 88%. As AI capabilities continue to expand, Tingyu Su believes the challenge is no […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 2 hours 38 min ago
The fight over AI's harms has played out state by state. One US senator wants to make it federal, all at once. Ed Markey has a long list of worries about artificial intelligence. Thirsty data centres. Workplace surveillance. Biased algorithms. Chatbots that prey on children. On Friday the Massachusetts Democrat tried to turn that list […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 2 hours 59 min ago
Britain is spending 2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German one taking a slice. The UK has signed a 2bn ($2.7bn) contract to train its soldiers with artificial intelligence. The deal, announced by the Ministry of Defence on Friday, runs for […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 3 hours 17 min ago
Malaysia's prime minister is trying something new: sending an autonomous copy of himself out to serve the public. Anwar Ibrahim is preparing to launch an artificial intelligence version of himself. The avatar is called PMX AI, a nod to his place as Malaysia's tenth prime minister. Bloomberg reports it could go live within days. A […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 5 hours 41 min ago
Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America's best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China's biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach some of America's most advanced artificial intelligence. The trick is […] This story continues at The Next Web...

ABC News - 5 hours 45 min ago
SK Hynix, one of the world's largest makers of memory chips, is hitting the U.S. stock market at a time when demand for its chips is far outpacing its ability to make them thanks to the frenzy over artificial intelligence...

The Guardian - 8 hours 48 min ago
Exclusive: Senator Ed Markey on why he has proposed legislation aimed at curbing datacenters, automated hiring systems and harm to children US senator Ed Markey is worried about the perils of unregulated artificial intelligence. What part? All of it: the costs associated with thirsty, energy-guzzling datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, bias in discriminatory algorithms, AI overriding workers' judgments, and deepening economic inequality as those who profit most from AI rake in extraordinary...

TechRadar - 8 hours 56 min ago
Is AI taking our jobs ? Even as Artificial Intelligence displaces a significant number of roles in the United Kingdom, it's clear the net-positive impact on the job market remains favorable. A new study estimates that evolution in AI technologies could create as many as 610,000 new jobs by 2028. What's more, employees can look forward to not just more jobs but better ones; an analysis of over 500 million job advertisements from 15 high-income countries revealed that employers in the U.K...

TechRadar - 9 hours 10 min ago
For years, the artificial intelligence industry operated under a philosophy of rapid innovation. Whilst this benefits sectors like healthcare, the initial wave of optimism surrounding generative models is giving way to a challenging reality. Numerous national security agencies and research bodies are issuing warnings regarding the potential for these models to be weaponized. At the heart of this warning is the realization that large language models do more than process text - they democratize technical...

CNBC - 18 hours 49 min ago
The three members of a task force advising the Fed on artificial intelligence are strong proponents of the technology.

NY Post - 23 hours 1 min ago
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta plans to design its own artificial intelligence chips in-house starting in September part of an industry-wide effort by the biggest names in AI to start making their own chips amid ongoing high demand. The initiative, known internally as "Iris," centers on developing custom silicon to power the AI systems behind Facebook...

New York Times - 23 hours 37 min ago
The paid product opens up a new revenue stream for Meta, which is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on artificial intelligence this year.

The Hill - 23 hours 40 min ago
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers are pressing multiple federal agencies over the risks artificial intelligence could pose to the upcoming election, specifically over chatbots' responses to voters. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), in a letter sent Tuesday, urged the heads of the departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the Cybersecurity and...

Daily Signal - 23 hours 54 min ago
President Donald Trump has made clear that the United States intends to win the global artificial intelligence race. From expanding domestic energy production to supporting new data centers and encouraging advanced manufacturing, the administration has recognized that AI leadership will be one of the defining economic and national security priorities of the 21st century. That...