Judge Declares Meta’s Social Media Is A ‘Public Nuisance’ Which Spells Legal Trouble For AI Chatbots Too

New Mexico court case decided Meta’s social media is a legal public nuisance. Might this same tag be applied to AI makers and their AI chatbots? An AI Insider analysis.

Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets
Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets

Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands one of China’s autonomous-driving champions a route onto the continent’s streets through an American app and a scattering of local fl…

Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal
Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal

Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks with investors about Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal, having landed a prized mandate that effectively casts it as the lea…

Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn
Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn

Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If it comes off, it would rank among the largest software buyouts ever stru…

Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba
Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba

Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the company’s usual habit of leaning on other people’s models. According to a Reuters report, Apple is the first foreign firm Beijing ha…

Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness

Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation o…

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NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, August 14

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The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.