Daily AI Briefing
Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and they’re fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner suggests taxing them to help workers survive the transition.
Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.
Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.
Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.
A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users.
The start-up said it would discontinue Sora just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.
The company, which develops autonomous military technology, also plans to buy a maker of simulation software as interest in next-generation defense soars.
A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about th
The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands. It’s an independent app startup that leverages government data, its
I live in a dense city with plentiful public transportation options and limited parking, so I don’t own a car. I’m often utterly clueless about the current price of gasoline. But as the conflict in Iran has escalated, fo
Listen to the session or watch below Whether it’s the race to find life on Mars, the campaign to outsmart killer asteroids, or the quest to make the moon a permanent home to astronauts, scientists’ efforts in space can t
Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of the reality,” he says. Hu is the CEO of SES AI, a
Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called
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The outgoing chief executive officer of Germany’s biggest media company said the TV and streaming industries in Europe is facing a crisis and must consolidate.
Shield AI has raised $2 billion at a valuation of $12.7 billion, more than doubling its value from a year ago, underscoring investor demand for defense technology and artificial intelligence.
MetaX Integrated Circuits Shanghai Co.’s full-year revenue more than doubled, driven by robust domestic artificial intelligence demand while Nvidia Corp. is squeezed out of the Chinese market.
Aligned Data Centers has raised $2.58 billion through a revolving credit facility to help the company finance its data center expansion in the US.
Memory chip stocks extended their losses on Thursday after Alphabet Inc.’s Google publicized research that could allow more efficient use of the storage needed for artificial intelligence development.
Private credit fund inflows in the first two month of this year dropped by more than a third as investors grew concerned about high-profile leveraged loan defaults and software disruption, according to Morningstar Direct
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I asked a researcher why using AI can sometimes make us feel weird, and what she said surprised me.
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This OnePlus Watch 3 deal is the smartwatch upgrade you need if you can go without the latest Pixel Watch model.
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