Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
Google’s carbon emissions have increased by 51% since 2019, as artificial intelligence is hindering the tech company’s efforts to transition…
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Tech startup wants to build new city dedicated to AI on Alameda Point
First there was “California Forever,” and now, “Frontier Valley?” While most people have by now heard of the proposed utopian…
Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’
Meta is definitely offering hefty multi-million-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new Superintelligence Lab. But…
Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared
Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos —…
OpenAI hires team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds
Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses, said on Thursday that its team is joining…
Meta in talks to acquire voice-cloning startup Play AI
Alongside bolstering its AI research talent pool, Meta seems to be keen to flesh out its consumer-facing AI features. The…
Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities. The AI agent,…
Hochul: $40M approved to launch second phase of Empire AI initiative
The Empire State Development Board has approved $40 million to launch the second phase of the state’s Empire AI initiative, a consortium…
Palantir and The Nuclear Company Partner on Platform to Scale Nuclear Deployment
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) saw its stock hit record highs today after announcing a product partnership with The Nuclear…
Bright Mountain and consumr.ai Partner to Advance AI-Powered Research and Media Intelligence
Bright Mountain Media, Inc. (Bright Mountain/OTCQB: BMTM), a marketing services platform company that empowers brands, agencies and publishers to go…
Uber May Fund Kalanick’s Bid to Buy Pony AI’s US Arm
Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks with founder Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of the U.S. arm of Chinese…
Vibe coding with AI sparks debate, reshapes developer jobs
As agents expand generative AI’s abilities from writing lines of code to creating entire applications, an industry argument that began…
Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results
After Google temporarily paused the rollout of its buggy AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature in Google Photos, the company announced that it has…
Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models
Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new…
YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel
YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday. The…
Nvidia reclaims title of most valuable company on AI momentum
Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company on Wednesday after its stock jumped over 4% in price to a…
Major AI chatbots parrot CCP propaganda
Leading AI chatbots are reproducing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda and censorship when questioned on sensitive topics. According to the American…
Nvidia CEO says robotics is chipmaker’s biggest opportunity after AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said other than artificial intelligence, robotics represents the chipmaker’s biggest market for potential growth, and that self-driving cars would…
H2O.ai Breaks New World Record for Most Accurate Agentic AI for Generalized Assistants
H2O.ai, the #1 Agentic AI company, announced its h2oGPTe Agent has once again achieved the top ranking on the prestigious General…
Bipartisan bill aims to block Chinese AI from federal agencies
Legislation introduced Wednesday in Congress would block Chinese artificial intelligence systems from federal agencies as a bipartisan group of lawmakers pledged…