A massive pile of money aimed at stopping AI regulation was already set to reshape U.S. electoral politics in the coming cycle, and now a massive pile of money aimed at spurring AI regulation is coming to cancel it out. None of this is business as usual, and it’s going to get weird. According to […]
What’s Cooler Than Building a Literal God? Building the New Uber
An interesting shift seems to be happening in the language of OpenAI’s biggest hype people. The term “artificial general intelligence” and the idea of the do-it-all AI seem to have fallen out of favor a bit. In its place: personalized AI experiences and researchers. Perhaps the clearest example of this change can be seen in […]
OpenAI Will Lose $74 Billion the Same Year That Anthropic Breaks Even: Report
OpenAI has committed more than $1.4 trillion to building out its data center infrastructure in the next 8 years. It’s projected to lose $74 billion in 2028 alone, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal citing internal documents from the company. On the opposite end of the spectrum, AI startup Anthropic is […]
I’m Sure There’s Nothing to Worry About Now That Mortgage-Backed Securities Are Driving AI
If you weren’t alive, or weren’t news-cognizant, back in 2007 when the slow motion debt crisis all around us started to give way to The Great Recession, what was eerie was that it felt like you were always hearing about refinancing debt. You couldn’t turn on a TV, or click a page on MySpace, without […]
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks so much that you’d think that he just likes the sound of his own voice—though you wonder if he actually hears what he’s saying. The subject of the recently published Michael Steinberger book “The Philosopher in the Valley” popped onto The Axios Show this week to talk about all kinds […]
AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds
You know all of those reports about artificial intelligence models successfully passing the bar or achieving Ph.D.-level intelligence? Looks like we should start taking those degrees back. A new study from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute suggests that most of the popular benchmarking tools that are used to test AI performance are often unreliable […]
Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?
Is it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are artificially propping up the economy is asking for government support, and representatives of the government are weighing in on it? Asking for a friend. Yesterday, OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar made headlines when […]
xAI Employees Were Reportedly Compelled to Give Biometric Data to Train Anime Girlfriend
If someone created a character in your likeness, you might feel flattered. If they happened to be your boss and mandated you hand over your mannerisms and voice so they could use a facsimile of your unique traits to create an AI girlfriend for lonely Elon Musk fanboys, you might feel like you picked the […]
Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never End
What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars into building new data centers to continue powering the rapid growth of AI models, which means they are asking communities across the country if they are looking for new neighbors. According to […]
Get Ready to Hear a Lot About Robot and AI ‘Swarms’
Scale is one of the biggest challenges currently facing the AI and robotics “revolution,” which is to say: How are we going to set up all the infrastructure needed for all these autonomous tools? One answer that you’re about to hear a lot more often: swarms. While OpenAI and other major artificial intelligence firms continue […]