Bill Gates warns in an essay and an NYT interview about mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism through AI, and he accuses his own industry of…
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Anthropic sees a market opportunity of more than $30 trillion ahead of its IPO
Anthropic wants to sell investors on a theoretical market opportunity worth more than $30 trillion ahead of its planned IPO. The article Anthropic sees a…
Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT’s launch
The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages for AI-generated content. More than a third of pages published since…
Alibaba’s Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
Alibaba’s video generation model Wan3.0 creates clips up to 30 seconds long from text, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. A 30-second 1080p clip costs $6.…
Russia used ChatGPT to run a covert influence campaign pushing pro-Kremlin narratives across the West
OpenAI has disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts by banning a cluster of accounts. The operators…
OpenAI’s first custom chip “Jalapeño” reportedly beats Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin in inference benchmarks
OpenAI showed off “Jalapeño,” its first in-house inference chip, with benchmarks at the Hot Chips conference. According to SemiAnalysis tests, the chip…
Google launches Gemini for legal work to automate contracts and research
With Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Google launches an AI solution for the legal industry that connects to systems like iManage, DocuSign, and Everlaw…
Meta’s paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, with a new model called Watermelon due in October
Meta Platforms will launch its AI agent Hatch in the coming weeks and release a new AI model called Watermelon in October. The article Meta’s paid AI…
Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership
The UK becomes the first country to get access to Avengers Labs, Ukraine’s platform holding roughly five million annotated combat images for training…
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX is four times faster than Cerebras, but the math is more complicated
Nvidia is moving its Groq 3 LPX inference chip into full production and reports 3,400 tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B, four times faster than Cerebras.…