The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI
The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI

One of the most decorated minds in AI is striking out alone. Richard Sutton shared the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning. On Monday he said he is leaving John Carmack’s startup Keen Technologies to start a new one, Oak Lab. H…

Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue
Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue

Ask most people what Huawei sells and you will get smartphones, or 5G, or a decade of geopolitical argument. Almost nobody says solar inverters. Yet Huawei Digital Power Technology, the division that makes them, along with battery storage systems and e…

Chinese EVs Are Surging. But America Is Fighting The Wrong Battle

While U.S. and European leaders blame “massive subsidies,” new analysis shows that China’s EV advantage comes from something far more consequential.

Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up
Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up

Ericsson booked SEK 52.7bn of revenue in the second quarter, down 6% from SEK 56.1bn a year earlier, as weaker patent licensing income and currency movements outweighed growth in a handful of regional markets. The Swedish equipment maker published the …

Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person
Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person

Coupang has won the first round of its fight with South Korea’s competition regulator. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday suspended the Fair Trade Commission’s decision to name founder Bom Kim as the e-commerce group’s controlling figure, freezing the dis…

Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones
Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones

The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology gr…

Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it
Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it

Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter. The company has built a new white list of approved re…

AI Makers Struggling With New AI Laws As They Shape Their Chatbots To Meet Chaotic Regulations

AI makers have become quasi-legal interpreters due to ill-specified AI laws. Those laws need to coded, one way or another. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Did Meta Signal The AI Boom Is Overbuilt? Wall Street Cheered Anyway

Meta’s $50 Billion Data Center Raises AI Overbuild Questions

Tyson Fury Vs. Mariusz Wach: Date, Time And How To Watch

Tyson Fury vs. Mariusz Wach is set for July 24 at Max Muay Thai Stadium in Pattaya. The fight will not be streamed live, per Fury. Here’s what to know.