
Tech Meme - 2 hours 42 min ago
CEPR : A study of 12K+ EU companies finds AI adoption increases labor productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run — Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce.

ABC News - 2 hours 44 min ago
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pitched India as a major hub for artificial intelligence, built at home and used worldwide...

Tech Meme - 3 hours 27 min ago
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing — As India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning …...

CNBC - 12 hours 34 min ago
Investors have raised concerns over the company ambitious investing plans as it ramps up its artificial intelligence and autonomous tech...

CNBC - 12 hours 54 min ago
The design software company maintained its gross margin even as more people adopted the Figma Make artificial intelligence tool.

Tech Meme - 14 hours 32 min ago
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A — Efficient Computer Co. says it's going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today.

Forbes - 16 hours 22 min ago
Musk has long encouraged users of his artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, to ask it for medical advice.

Tech Meme - 16 hours 32 min ago
New York Times : Meta plans to spend $65M this year backing state politicians friendly to AI; filings: it is starting two super PACs, one backing GOP and another for Democrats — Meta's biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit artificial intelligence development.

Tech Meme - 17 hours 12 min ago
Alicia Tang / Bloomberg : Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery — World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a novel approach to AI development.

New York Times - 18 hours 1 min ago
Meta is quietly supporting on two new super PACs as it aims to influence the regulatory environment for artificial intelligence.

The Onion - 20 hours 2 min ago
SIOUX CITY, IA Making the dire prediction shortly after being terminated for substandard work, marketing analyst Ryan Bronson, who was laid off solely for performance-related reasons Wednesday, warned that artificial intelligence was coming for everyone. “Yup, the way things are going, not a single one of us is safe from the threat of AI replacing us,” […] The post Coworker Laid Off Solely For Performance-Related Reasons Warns AI Coming For Everyone appeared first on The Onion...

The Guardian - 21 hours 1 min ago
Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gains The front-page headline in a recent Washington Post was breathless: "These companies say AI is key to their four-day workweeks. " The subhead was euphoric: "Some companies are giving workers back more time as artificial intelligence takes over more tasks." As the Post explained: "more companies may move toward a shortened workweek, several executives...

Tech Meme - 21 hours 10 min ago
Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg : Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition — Saudi-backed artificial intelligence company Humain has invested $3 billion into Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, according to a statement on Wednesday.

Mother Jones - 21 hours 32 min ago
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]...

ABC News - 23 hours 16 min ago
A private Indian university has been booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi after one of its staffers displayed a a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university's own innovation...