The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers
The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor’s media editor, reported the test on Sund…

Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects
Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects

Inner Mongolia signed 12 green computing projects worth 186.46 billion yuan on Saturday, about $27.49bn. It also broke ground on a platform to sell Chinese AI services abroad. The state news agency Xinhua reported both from Hohhot, the regional capital…

Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month
Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month

Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither compan…

Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was
Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was

A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT launched. The authors estimate a 2026 snapshot overs…

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…

Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training
Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training

A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-…

Thomson Reuters built its own model on a Chinese open base
Thomson Reuters built its own model on a Chinese open base

Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model on Monday. The company calls it Thomson. It says it spent $40mn on talent and compute to train the model, and that it began from what its announcement describes as “a strong open-sourc…

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn

Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, s…

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.  Now there are two.  Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…