Politics Jun 03 Meta signs 20-year deal with nuclear plant, signals AI’s growing energy needs AI already uses vast amounts of energy, much of which comes from burning fossil fuels, which causes climate change.
Economy May 13 Microsoft is laying off about 3% of its workforce Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, said the layoffs will be across all levels and geographies but the cuts will focus on reducing the number of managers.
Science Jan 27 What is DeepSeek? Here’s a quick guide to the Chinese AI company Some U.S. tech industry observers worry the Chinese startup has caught up with the American companies at the forefront of generative AI at a fraction of the cost.
Nation Jan 15 Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot AP has sought to diversify its revenue stream in recent years and in 2023 signed a deal with OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, enabling the AI company to license AP's archive of news stories to train future versions of its AI…
Politics Jan 13 WATCH: White House holds news briefing as Biden administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips “If it’s China and not the United States determining the future of AI on the planet, I think that the stakes of that are just profound," said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday.
Science Dec 23 AI-assisted wildlife surveillance is ‘urgently needed,’ new paper shows AI-assisted wildlife surveillance is “urgently needed” as some 28 percent of all plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, according to a paper published in the academic journal Science this summer.
Nation Dec 22 OpenAI whistleblower who raised legal concerns about ChatGPT’s datasets has died Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.
Nation Sep 04 Regulators turn to math to determine when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn’t be unleashed without careful oversight? For regulators, it’s mostly about the arithmetic.
Nation Jul 30 White House says no need to restrict open-source AI, for now The White House is coming out in favor of “open-source” artificial intelligence technology, arguing there’s no need now for restrictions on companies making key components of their powerful AI systems widely available.
Economy Jun 06 AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text as early as 2026 A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade -- sometime between 2026 and 2032.