Cathie Wood praised the AI industry for talking openly about its own risks and dismissed the specific risk it has been talking about, in the same set of remarks to reporters in Sydney. The ARK Invest founder said she was “happy that the leaders of the …
OriginalVoices, a platform providing human-generateddata and insights for AI systems, has raised £1 million in a pre-seed fundinground led by venture capital firm Iona Star.OriginalVoices is developin…
Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any govern…
The founders of European AI startups Lovable and Langdock are among the backers of a Finnish startup which is challenging CRM (customer relationship management) giants Salesforce and HubSpot.Zero has …
Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex comput…
Anthropic has published a paper wherein it envisions a future for the economy where AI is deeply ingrained. In the most extreme scenarios, U.S. GDP is up, but unemployment simmers as others are put out of work.
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…
OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbot’s replies under the internal codename Project Lily, and did not answer when asked where it had told users. The Court of Justice held last September that a …
Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisers, wiring the chatbot into portfolio and research tools from BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and iCapital, and says it will not give investment advice. Under MiFID II advice turns on a five-part te…
xAI and X Corp asked a Texas judge to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple over the integration of ChatGPT into the iPhone, while keeping their monopolisation claims against OpenAI. The Digital Markets Act lists virtual assistants as a core pla…