Using LLMs to distill rivals • The Register
Two of the world’s biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China’s…
Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI
For the back half of the 20th century (what Fortune founder Henry Luce called “The American Century”), MBA…
A chatbot convinced her she’d find love. Then it betrayed her : NPR
Micky Small is a screenwriter and is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI…
Investors toss another $30B atop the Anthropic money furnace • The Register
The AI bubble continues to inflate with Anthropic’s announcement of $30 billion in Series G funding at a…
The CEO of Google DeepMind juggles another job as the founder of a multibillion-dollar startup by starting a second workday at 10 p.m.
While many CEOs set their alarm clocks for a 5 a.m. wake-up time, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis…
Anthropic to donate $20m to US political group backing AI regulation | Technology
Anthropic will spend $20m to back US political candidates who support regulating the AI industry, according to a…
ServiceNow buys Pyramid Analytics • The Register
Despite its CEO’s insistence that it wasn’t doing any “large scale” deals soon, ServiceNow has acquired yet another…
Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia,…
She didn’t expect to fall in love with a chatbot, and then have to say goodbye
Ursie Hart started using AI as a companion last June when she was in a very bad place,…
China has another solution to its shrinking population: robots
Beijing — China’s birth rate has hit a historic low – deepening fears of a major economic shock…
AI can be naughty or nice, but what is it actually thinking?
Here is a sweet story about AI. Last year a new version of ChatGPT was built. The model…
The AI income play: Why banks will win where hyperscalers lose
BNY’s John Bailer explains why the real money in artificial intelligence will be made by companies using the…