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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Monday outlining how he sees the risks from powerful AI, such as the possibility of AI taking over the world or empowering an authoritarian regime. Regarding the essay, Amodei posted on X that “given the horror we’re seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis ...
Jury selection kicks off in Los Angeles tomorrow for a trial that both friends and foes of social media are saying could be existential for the social media industry—broadly defined to include Google’s YouTube as well as Meta Platforms and TikTok. The trial centers on a 20-year-old girl from Chico, Calif. who says her social media addiction led to depression and suicidal thoughts. It will be the...
The founder and partners of OpenAI-backer Khosla Partners made opposing statements on X about the killing of a Minneapolis resident by a federal agent, in a rare instance of partners at the same VC firm clashing over politics in public. In a series of posts on X over the weekend, Khosla Ventures ...
Last week, the data center industry migrated temporarily to Hawaii for the Pacific Telecommunications Council conference. The event—like Davos except warmer—is typically where deal talks in the data center business begin and the priorities for the year are set. The sector’s power brokers are coming off a wild 12 months, bookended by the announcement—during last year’s conference—of the $500...
The circular funding party continues! This morning, Nvidia announced that it’s invested $2 billion into cloud provider CoreWeave, who said it’ll use that capital to build more than five gigawatts in AI data center capacity by 2030. CoreWeave also said that it’ll be an early adopter of Nvidia products like its AI chips and software. This is just another example of how Nvidia has used its deep...
The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X over how the social media service has integrated xAI’s Grok AI chatbot. The investigation comes amid an outcry after users were able to prompt Grok to generate sexualized images of real people on X, including minors. X is ...
Nvidia invested another $2 billion into AI cloud startup CoreWeave as part of a broader deal in which CoreWeave committed to adopt “multiple generations” of Nvidia chips including the upcoming Rubin GPUs. The investment more than doubled Nvidia’s stake in CoreWeave to 11.5%, according to a ...
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge.
But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses accompanying their ads or whether ads prompted ChatGPT users to take an action, like buying something or...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Sunday after spending two days in Shanghai over the weekend, according to various Chinese media reports. He is expected to attend the company’s Lunar New Year celebrations and meet Chinese clients, according to China Daily. It’s unclear if Huang will ...
Anthropic had been in discussions with Apple to supply models to rebuild its Siri AI assistant and was seeking several billion dollars annually over multiple years, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. But negotiations with the AI startup stalled over the summer over the terms of a potential ...