
Tech Meme - 1 hour 26 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 - 2 hours 6 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 - 2 hours 55 min ago
Meta is quietly supporting on two new super PACs as it aims to influence the regulatory environment for artificial intelligence.

The Onion - 4 hours 56 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 - 5 hours 55 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 - 6 hours 5 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 - 6 hours 26 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 - 8 hours 10 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...

Tech Meme - 10 hours 31 min ago
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures — An Indian startup called Sarvam AI is making a push to create a viable competitor for the domestic market, unveiling an artificial-intelligence model …...

ABC News - 14 hours 58 min ago
Artificial intelligence is spreading fast across India, and people already use it to work quicker and cheaper...

NPR - 21 hours 14 min ago
Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole.

UPI - 21 hours 52 min ago
Artificial intelligence and software analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has moved its headquarters to Miami, company officials announced.