Members phkrause Posted February 8 Author Members Posted February 8 Artificial intelligence A pair of US lawmakers are seeking to ban government workers from using Chinese startup DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot on official devices. Reps. Darin LaHood, a Republican from Illinois, and Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, are set to propose the legislation today, citing national security concerns. Just weeks ago, DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley and Wall Street by releasing an advanced AI model, called R1, with the same capabilities as top American models, despite being cheaper to train and requiring less electricity. The model has fueled concerns that the US could fall behind China in the global AI race. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 11 Author Members Posted February 11 Elon Musk leads an offer to buy ChatGPT’s parent company for nearly $100 billion In a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk is leading a group of investors who have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/tech/openai-elon-musk-purchase? Artificial intelligence Elon Musk is attempting to put himself at the forefront of artificial intelligence with a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of the technology. The Tesla and SpaceX founder is leading a group of investors who've offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for nearly $100 billion. The investment could give Musk majority control of the company, which rivals his X.AI program. In response to the unsolicited offer, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X, "no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want." Their back-and-forth comes as political and business leaders are meeting at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit today in Paris to discuss how to create effective guardrails for AI without stifling innovation. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 13 Author Members Posted February 13 "I feel for the guy": Altman swipes at Musk's "insecurity" as AI feud gets nasty OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed Tuesday that Elon Musk — who launched a bid to buy OpenAI a day earlier — seems unhappy and is operating "from a position of insecurity," adding: "I feel for the guy." https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/sam-altman-elon-musk-feud-openai? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 15 Author Members Posted February 15 Musk lawyers say he'll drop bid for OpenAI if it gives up for-profit plan Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid to purchase the assets of OpenAI if OpenAI gives up on its plan to spin out its for-profit subsidiary, Musk's lawyers said in a new court filing Wednesday. https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/musk-altman-openai-nonprofit-filing? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 16 Author Members Posted February 16 🤖 Axios interview: Hassabis warns against AI "race" Photo illustration: Axios Visuals. Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images PARIS — The more AI becomes a race, the harder it is to keep the powerful new technology from becoming unsafe, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Axios' Ina Fried at this week's AI Action Summit. "It seems to be very difficult for the world to do," said Hassabis — who won a Nobel Prize last year and now leads Google's AI work. "Just look at climate. There seems to be less cooperation. That doesn't bode well." 🎨 The big picture: Hassabis said the need for norms and rules grows as the world gets closer to so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), meaning advanced AI systems that can do a broad range of tasks faster and better than humans. "But it has to be international," Hassabis said. "Otherwise you'll get nations competing and other things like that." Hassabis said international cooperation needs to involve governments, companies, academics and civil society. "It is too important for it only to be one set of people working on this," he said. "It's going to require everybody to come together — hopefully, in time." Full interview ... 💡 Exclusive: America's AI doubts Data: 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer. Chart: Axios Visuals Trust in artificial intelligence is significantly higher in China than in the United States, Axios' Ina Fried writes from new data from the Edelman Trust Barometer. Why it matters: The pace of AI adoption won't solely be determined by how fast the technology itself advances, but also by the willingness of businesses and individuals to use it. 🔢 By the numbers: Edelman's latest research found that 72% of people in China trust AI, compared with just 32% in the United States. Not only is trust higher in China, it's higher in much of the developing world than it is in the United States, according to Edelman's research. Trust in AI was highest in India, at 77%, followed by Nigeria at 76%, Thailand at 73%, then China. Keep reading. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 18 Author Members Posted February 18 🔮 Musk & Altman on AI, 10 years ago Most memorable paragraph I read this weekend, from a Wall Street Journal deep dive about how Sam Altman and Elon Musk went from friends to bitter enemies: In early 2015, Musk and Altman began having regular dinners each Wednesday in the Bay Area. Their conversations tended toward the apocalyptic: how the world might end, how they might prepare for it, to where they might have to flee. A likely cause, they agreed, would be artificial intelligence that grows smarter than humans and impossible to control. Gift link. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 18 Author Members Posted February 18 🤖 Musk's new model Elon Musk unveiled Grok 3, the next version of xAI's chatbot, touting it as "an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2," Axios' Ina Fried writes. Why it matters: Musk's release of an upgraded ChatGPT challenger comes as he's engaged in a bitter rivalry with OpenAI — including lawsuits, a war of words, and, most recently, an unsolicited $97.4 billion takeover bid. During a video livestream that began at 11:18 p.m. ET and peaked at 2.8 million viewers, Musk and his team said the goal of xAI and Grok is to understand the nature of the universe. Musk and xAI said Grok 3 contains advanced reasoning abilities and will continue to improve through reinforcement learning: "We're seeing the beginnings of creativity." In a series of demos, Musk and his colleagues asked Grok 3 to solve a physics problem and create a game that combines Bejeweled and Tetris. "I've played the game," Musk said, of an earlier creation using that prompt. "It's pretty good." Keep reading ... Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 24 Author Members Posted February 24 🤖 AI boom's big mystery Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios A hot startup that grew overnight into a billion-dollar behemoth is racing with established tech giants for supremacy in a new market that everyone expects will unlock a future of abundance and profit. That sounds like a description of OpenAI vs Google et al., Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes. But it's actually an account of the "browser wars" at the dawn of the web 30 years ago — when Netscape vied with Microsoft to control the software people would use to access the internet. Why it matters: In 1996 or 1997, a couple of years after forward-looking tech leaders first realized that "owning" the web browser would be a prize, Google — the company that ultimately won the race — didn't even exist. Today, as AI giants and challengers vie to build a better chatbot and seize mindshare and market share, there's a good possibility that the winning bot (assuming there's only one) hasn't yet been invented — and the company that will make it has yet to be founded. 👓 Between the lines: That's why tech's superpowers, despite their immense wealth and influence, have been running scared. It's also why VCs continue to pour money into new startups, including Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab and Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence. Keep reading ... Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 5 Author Members Posted March 5 🤖 Big AI award Illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Axios This year's Turing Award — often called the Nobel Prize of computer science — is going to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, pioneers of a key approach that underlies much of today's artificial intelligence, Axios' Ina Fried writes. Why it matters: Reinforcement learning, as the technique is known, posits that computers can learn from their own experiences, using a system of rewards similar to how researchers have trained animals. In a joint interview, Barto and Sutton told Axios the technology they pursued was out of vogue for much of their careers. "There were periods of time when I could not get funding because I was not doing the current fashionable topic, and I wasn't going to change to what was fashionable," Barto said. Keep reading ... Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 10 Author Members Posted March 10 🤖 AI hotspots Data: AI Maps. Chart: Axios Visuals New York, Seattle and San Jose had the most overall AI job openings this past January, a University of Maryland project finds. If you're looking for an AI job, the country's long-standing tech hotspots are hard to beat, but D.C. and Dallas are also promising, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick writes. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 13 Author Members Posted March 13 AI brain gets a robot body Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Google is bringing the broad knowledge of its Gemini AI models into the world of robotics, Axios' Ina Fried reports. The move could pave the way for robots that are vastly more versatile, but opens up new risks as AI systems take on physical capabilities. 🏀 Google's demo videos showed robots that were able to dunk a basketball and put food into a bowl even while the bowl moved around. Go deeper. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 14 Author Members Posted March 14 🧠 AI's creative block Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Tech evangelists predict the arrival of "superintelligence" any year now — but others doubt AI will ever produce its own Da Vincis and Einsteins, Axios' Scott Rosenberg writes. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted the company's development of "a new model that is good at creative writing" and showed off its work — a thousand-word "metafictional" composition on "AI and grief." Why it matters: Creativity could be the final hurdle for AI to leap in proving it's humanity's peer. But until then, many see it as the last bastion of humanity's irreplaceability. 🎨 The big picture: Whether telling stories or researching scientific breakthroughs, today's generative AI isn't very good at creative leaps and novel insights. It's bounded by what it "knows" — the data it is trained on — and how it "thinks," by guessing the next word or pixel that best fulfills its prompt. Keep reading ... Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 14 Author Members Posted March 14 🤖 Axios interview: OpenAI's Trump-era strategy Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios. Photo: Andrew Burton for The Washington Post via Getty Images Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, tells Axios that two years after ChatGPT exploded onto the scene, it's time to accelerate AI policy for the Trump era. Why it matters: For top AI companies, the policy message has shifted from begging for regulation and warning of dangers to projecting confidence about the policies needed to keep growing and beat China in the AI race, Axios' Ashley Gold writes. "There's a real focus from the administration on developing an AI strategy to ensure U.S. economic competitiveness and national security are prioritized," Lehane said. "Our workstream is intersecting with where the administration is going." Lehane was at the White House last week and has had many meetings with Trump officials about AI policy. He expects a full strategy to be released by the summer. 🖼️ The big picture: Lehane says the U.S. view on AI is shifting as the industry grows more comfortable and ambitious with the technology. "Globally, the conversation around AI has changed. There's been a definite pivot," he said. "Maybe the biggest risk here is actually missing out on the opportunity. There was a pretty significant vibe shift when people became more aware and educated on this technology and what it means." Full interview. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 14 Author Members Posted March 14 Schools use AI to monitor kids, hoping to prevent violence. Our investigation found security risks School districts around the country have turned to technology to monitor school-issued devices 24/7 for any signs of danger as they grapple with a student mental health crisis and the threat of shootings. The goal is to keep children safe, but these tools raise serious questions about privacy and security. Read More. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 14 Author Members Posted March 14 💣 Malware's AI time bomb Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios Hackers already have the AI tools needed to create the adaptable, destructive malware that security experts fear, Axios' Sam Sabin writes in the newly revamped Future of Cybersecurity newsletter. Cyber leaders have long feared generative AI would enable autonomous cyberattacks, making current security tools ineffective. These attacks could involve AI agents carrying out hackers' bidding or malware that adapts in real time as it spreads. As long as basic tactics — phishing, scams and ransomware — continue to work, bad actors have little reason to use those tools. But adversaries can flip that switch anytime, and companies need to prepare now. 🎲 The looming threat of autonomous cyberattacks was a top talking point at the inaugural HumanX conference in Las Vegas this week. "You know that phrase, 'Keep your powder dry'? That's what attackers are doing right now," James White, chief technology officer at AI security startup CalypsoAI, told Axios, implying that bad actors are ready for battle. "The rate of acceleration is insane," Evan Reiser, CEO of email security company Abnormal Security, told Axios. "You don't have to be a total science fiction nerd, like me, to imagine where this can go in one year, two years." Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 17 Author Members Posted March 17 AI nurses are reshaping hospital care. Human nurses are pushing back The next time you get a call about an upcoming medical appointment you may not be talking to a human. Hospitals are increasingly using AI assistants to handle scheduling, preparation and patient questions about surgeries and other medical procedures. Read more. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 19 Author Members Posted March 19 🤖 AI is tearing companies apart Data: Writer. Chart: Axios Visuals AI is deepening divisions between corporate leaders and workers, Axios' Megan Morrone writes from new survey results. Why it matters: Executives are pushing AI as an inevitable revolution, but many workers aren't buying it. 😡 Even execs who believe their AI integration is proceeding smoothly are handing down policies and tools to a frustrated and fearful workforce. Less than half (45%) of employees think their company's latest AI rollouts have been successful versus 75% of the C-suite, according to new research from enterprise AI startup Writer. 😰 Employees are both fearful of being replaced by AI and frustrated over its performance, Writer CEO May Habib tells Axios. Around half of employees say AI-generated information is inaccurate, confusing and biased. Yet many workers believe AI is going to change their jobs so much that they're no longer going to have a job. 🦃 Asking those employees to embrace AI is like "asking a turkey to vote for Thanksgiving," Habib tells Axios. Execs are often so far removed from the actual implementation of AI that they don't see or understand this fear and resistance, Habib adds. Go deeper. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 20 Author Members Posted March 20 🤖 AI's copyright clash Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios A sharp divide over whether AI engines should be able to freely use copyrighted material has emerged as a key issue in the White House call for suggestions on national AI strategy, Axios' Ina Fried writes. Why it matters: Copyright infringement claims were among the first legal challenges following ChatGPT's launch, with multiple lawsuits now winding their way through the courts. OpenAI and Google argue in their filings that being able to use copyrighted material is a matter of national security, saying that if they can't train on this material, Chinese companies will have an unfair advantage. "If the [Chinese] developers have unfettered access to data and American companies are left without fair use access, the race for AI is effectively over," OpenAI said in its filing. The other side: Groups representing actors, filmmakers and publishers (among other creative professionals) used their filings, public statements and editorials to reject those arguments. Keep reading. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 23 Author Members Posted March 23 The newest celebrity CEO Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address Tuesday during Nvidia's GTC conference in San Jose. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is still coming to terms with his new role as "the godfather of AI," Axios Closer author Nathan Bomey writes. The New York Times even said he has been nicknamed "AI Jesus" (gift link). Huang, 62, unintentionally tanked quantum stocks in January after saying useful quantum computers could be decades away. He offered a mea culpa yesterday at a company conference. "This is the first event in history where a company CEO invites all of the guests to explain why he was wrong," Huang said yesterday at Nvidia's annual developer conference in San Jose. (CNBC) 🦾 The big picture: Nvidia's meteoric rise over the last two years has catapulted Huang into a rarefied class of business leaders — up there with people like Jack Welch and Jamie Dimon — whose every word is scrutinized and amplified. He has become a true business celebrity — the "godfather of AI," as Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives puts it. That'll happen when your company briefly skyrockets above a $3 trillion market cap. Go deeper. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 26 Author Members Posted March 26 Cures in plain sight Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios Among AI's most transformative capabilities is its power to sift through troves of information in seconds and unearth useful nuggets. Why it matters: Researchers are using this technology to speed up the process of finding treatments — or even cures — for diseases. 🔎 Driving the news: Two recent articles show what AI can do. "In labs around the world, scientists are using AI to search among existing medicines for treatments that work for rare diseases. Drug repurposing, as it's called, is not new, but the use of machine learning is speeding up the process — and could expand the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options," The New York Times reports (gift link). Researchers are using AI to "speed up the work of digging through journals and databases by nearly 10 times — helping to more quickly prioritize which genes or proteins should be selected for further work to generate potential Alzheimer's drugs," according to The Wall Street Journal (gift link). Zoom in: The N.Y. Times shares the story of Joseph Coates, a 37-year-old with a a rare blood disorder called POEMS syndrome. Coates was told he would die until one doctor used AI to come up with an unconventional treatment, and now Coates is in remission. Success stories like Coates and others have researchers wondering how many other treatments or cures to diseases that have stumped doctors are hiding in plain sight, The Times notes. 🤖 AI's ability to mine troves of research might also help scientists figure out how to treat Alzheimer's — a disease that's expected to afflict more and more Americans. Break it down: Many drugs work by targeting specific genes or proteins linked to diseases, but identifying the right ones for a specific disease can be tough. Speedy AI research can sift through piles of patient data, scientific papers and more to help determine which genes and proteins might be the ones to target for Alzheimer's treatment. The bottom line: Old research and existing drugs could have life-changing or life-saving applications, and now AI can help dig those up. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted March 26 Author Members Posted March 26 🔮 Axios What's Next: AI's great race Chris Lehane — OpenAI's chief global affairs officer — told Axios' Ina Fried at our annual What's Next Summit that the winner of the AI race will make decisions that could set industry norms and influence global AI policy for years to come. "Whoever ends up winning ends up building the AI rails for the world," Lehane said. Why it matters: Lehane says beating China in the AI race is so important that we should not tie the hands of AI makers by limiting their use of data under copyright laws that China won't observe. "That is a bit of a zero-sum game. And do you want the world built on autocratic, authoritarian AI, where there's not going to be any copyright, there's not going to be any fair use ... you're not going to have any freedoms?" Keep reading. 💡 More summit moments: D.C. plots future beyond federal jobs ... Sen. Tim Scott's election dream ... Full summit video. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted April 18 Author Members Posted April 18 OpenAI picks labor icon Dolores Huerta and other philanthropy advisers as it moves toward for-profit OpenAI has named labor leader Dolores Huerta and three others to a temporary advisory board that will help guide the artificial intelligence company’s philanthropy as it attempts to shift itself into a for-profit business. https://apnews.com/article/openai-dolores-huerta-artificial-intelligence-nonprofit-5be2ce2185fb382a45e940426cd936d3? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted May 2 Author Members Posted May 2 💰 AI subsidies are costing taxpayers a fortune. At least 10 states are losing more than $100 million in taxpayer revenue per year to subsidize data centers, finds new research from the nonprofit Good Jobs First. These power-guzzling computer warehouses are key to cloud computing and artificial intelligence generation — but limited transparency rules and tech’s out-of-control growth mean states aren’t accurately tracking how much they’re subsidizing these operations. Of the 32 states that provide tax incentives to build data centers, 12 don’t disclose their revenue loss estimates. Meanwhile, those who do can’t keep up: Texas originally estimated it would pay out $130 million to data centers in 2025; that estimate was revised to $1 billion in less than two years. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted May 3 Author Members Posted May 3 What Is an AI PC? How AI Will Reshape Your Next Computer Revolutionary artificial intelligence is coming to everyday laptops and desktops thanks to chips from the big silicon players paired with Microsoft's Copilot+ push. Here's what you need to know. https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/what-is-an-ai-pc? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted May 4 Author Members Posted May 4 🤖 Your bot besties Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are pitching a vision of AI chatbots as an extension of your friend network and a potential solution to the "loneliness epidemic," Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried reports. Why it matters: Meta's approach to AI raises the broader question of just whose interest chatbots are serving — especially when the bot has access to the details of your life. Facebook's parent company this week debuted a new mobile app that transforms the Meta AI chatbot into a more social experience. Zuckerberg also sees the AI bot itself as your next friend. "The average American has, I think, it's fewer than three friends," Zuckerberg said during a podcast interview Monday. "And the average person has demand for meaningfully more." 👀 But where Zuckerberg sees opportunity, critics see alarm bells, especially given Meta's history and business model. "The more time you spend chatting with an AI 'friend,' the more of your personal information you're giving away," Robbie Torney, Common Sense Media's senior director of AI programs, told Axios. "It's about who owns and controls and can use your intimate thoughts and expressions after you share them." Keep reading. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
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