
The Next Web - 35 min 48 sec ago
Amazon will invest an additional $13bn in India by 2030, the company said on June 25, lifting its planned spending in the country to $48bn over the period and routing the new money into the part of the business that now drives almost everything Amazon does: cloud and artificial intelligence. Chief executive Andy Jassy announced […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 43 min 54 sec ago
Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the second pair to head for the Claude maker inside a week. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both regarded internally as key contributors to Google's […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Independent - 1 hour 18 min ago
The online cards and gifts business said it had invested heavily in artificial intelligence which can lower barriers to content creation'.

ABC News - 7 hours 25 min ago
A former New York City Council candidate has been charged with forgery over allegations he used artificial intelligence to post fake endorsements and news articles on social media...

NY Post - 11 hours 34 min ago
Artificial-intelligence chatbots show a strongly left-leaning political bias contrary to what leading AI companies claim, according to a bombshell report.

Smithsonian - 15 hours 29 min ago
Meanwhile, other actors are pushing back against the use of artificial intelligence in creative projects, including through a new "human consent" registry tool...

The Next Web - 16 hours 47 min ago
Deezer has launched Remix Lab, a feature that lets fans remix songs directly inside the app using in-app tools rather than artificial intelligence. The feature requires the explicit consent of the original artists and rights holders, and Deezer says artists get paid for every stream of the remixed tracks. The tool is available on select […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 18 hours 36 min ago
Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago has been virtually unwrapped and read with help from artificial intelligence. Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden text covering more than a metre of charred papyrus without physically unrolling the scroll. The work discusses stoic philosophy on ethics...

NY Post - 18 hours 54 min ago
Meta Platforms and Microsoft are leading the pack of tech giants that are shoveling money into artificial intelligence data-center leases each committing tens of billions of dollars in during their most recent quarters. The new agreements helped lift total future data-center lease commitments among the largest cloud-computing companies to more than $850 billion. Those...

The Next Web - 20 hours 28 min ago
For the past several years, the artificial intelligence industry has been moving toward an uncomfortable reality: the most powerful models, infrastructure, and capabilities are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of well-funded companies. While billions of dollars continue to pour into proprietary AI platforms, the open-source ecosystem that helped drive much of […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 21 hours 55 min ago
A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing's Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic's vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese artificial-intelligence lab fresh off a $558M Hong Kong listing. Its shares priced at […] This story continues at The Next Web...

Vox - 21 hours 55 min ago
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to testify before the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The ostensible subject of the hearings was Oppenheimer's position on the hydrogen bomb, a far more destructive version of the atomic bomb that the US had developed and first tested two years earlier. Oppenheimer, who in the years after the war had become increasingly conflicted about atomic weapons, initially opposed work on the...

New York Times - 22 hours 18 min ago
Alibaba has become one of China's leading artificial intelligence companies.

The Next Web - 23 hours 23 min ago
Wealthy investors are using artificial intelligence to research and generate ideas, and then asking a human being whether to act on them. That is the headline finding of new HSBC research published on Wednesday, which surveyed nearly 10,000 affluent and high-net-worth individuals across 10 markets and concluded that, at the moment of decision, the adviser […] This story continues at The Next Web...