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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab
Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is now reporting to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum who has overseen the buzzy AI effort since July, according to multiple sources.…
Donald Trump Is Saying There’s a TikTok Deal. China Isn’t
US efforts to ban TikTok started during Trump’s first term in 2020. Months before he left office, Trump threatened to ban TikTok and another Chinese app WeChat. The Biden administration rescinded Trump’s executive orders on the topic but continued to scrutinize TikTok. The US congress eventually passed the Protecting Americans…
YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by…
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that…
Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
My evidence that we're onto something is we've seen a handful of content deals, and the company that has gotten the best deal by far is Reddit. We know from their public filings that last year they got close to $140 million a year from Google and OpenAI.Hmm.If you compare…
Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here
Michael Calore: Yeah. That's a whole other topic.Kylie Robison: Yes, it is. Will, what do you recommend?Will Knight: I'm going to recommend what I think is a genuinely useful home robot. I have a cat, Leono. He's very nice but will bring in various animals, dead or alive, into our…
How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge Networks sells what amounts to a commercialized “Great Firewall” to at least four countries, including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. The groundbreaking…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors and publishers whose books were used to train an early version of…
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
A renewed focus on robots would suggest that OpenAI believes reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that exceeds human intelligence—may require developing algorithms that are capable of interacting with the physical world.OpenAI did notable robotics research in its early years, including developing an algorithm capable of solving a Rubik's cube using…
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world…
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