Trump Shares AI Video of Gaza as Luxury Resort, Drawing Scorn

Gabby Petito's AI-faked voice in new Netflix documentary sparks viewer backlash

Netflix's “American Murder: Gabby Petito” is facing backlash from some viewers who are questioning whether the filmmakers' decision to use AI to recreate Petito’s voice is ethical.

NBC News - 6d

Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton

The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong. There are decades when nothing happens (as Lenin is – wrongly – supposed to have ...

The Guardian - 5d

UK develops AI CV-writing tool to ease pressure on job support staff

Plan will free up work coaches for more ‘valuable’ employment as ministers seek to cut welfare bill

Financial Times - 3d

AI still has a hallucination problem: How MongoDB aims to solve it with advanced rerankers and embedding models

How MongoDB's Voyage AI is helping enterprises move more mission critical operations into production with gen AI.

VentureBeat - 3d

Apple to open AI server factory in Texas as part of $500 billion U.S. investment

Apple said it will work with partners to open a 250,000-square-foot AI server manufacturing facility in Houston.

CNBC - 3d

A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Really Works

Research recently showed that using AI may impact workers’ long term critical thinking powers. Another alarm bell raises worries that overreliance on AI to help write code will also have a ...

Inc. - 3d

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle

Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking 'thinking time' controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new ...

VentureBeat - 3d

Anthropic says it's released its 'most intelligent' AI model yet as competition ramps up

Anthropic unveiled its latest frontier model, Claude Sonnet 3.7, on Monday and claims it's the company's "most intelligent" version yet.

CNBC - 3d

Microsoft reiterates plan to invest $80 billion in AI, but may 'adjust our infrastructure in some areas'

Microsoft hasn't backed off its plan for the current fiscal year but acknowledged that it may makes some infrastructure adjustments.

CNBC - 3d

Current and Former Scale AI Contractors Allege Wage Theft in Letter to U.S. Senators

Scale’s former managing director will appear this week at a Senate confirmation hearing for the White House’s top science role.

Inc. - 3d

Voyage AI Just Sold for $220 Million—After Launching Less Than Two Years Ago

Here’s why acquirer MongoDB found the anti-hallucination tech particularly valuable.

Inc. - 3d

It’s grand theft AI and UK ministers are behind it. Oppose this robbery of people’s creativity | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alastair Webber

The plan to weaken copyright law, allowing tech firms to profit for free from people’s talent, is an outrage, and the nation would suffer. We are father and son: one has written 16 musicals and ...

The Guardian - 2d

British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work

A new album called “Is This What We Want?”

ABC News - 2d

Ovomind will show its Gen AI game tech that detects gamer reactions at GDC

Ovomind, an AI and "affective computing" startup, detects player reactions to a game.

VentureBeat - 2d

Adobe launches first Photoshop mobile app and it has amazing Firefly AI-powered object detection, editing, and effects

Photoshop mobile includes Firefly-powered gen AI features like Generative Fill and Generative Expand and has mobile-adjusted touch targets.

VentureBeat - 2d

A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection

Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.

Wired - 2d

1,000 musicians release a silent album in protest of U.K.'s proposed AI copyright law changes

A group of musicians is hoping the sound of their collective silence speaks volumes to lawmakers in the U.K.

NBC News - 2d

Perplexity AI launching $50 million venture fund to back early-stage startups

Perplexity AI is getting ready to launch a $50 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed artificial intelligence startups in the U.S., CNBC has learned.

CNBC - 2d

OpenAI expands Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude

OpenAI expands Deep Research AI agent to ChatGPT users, intensifying competition with DeepSeek and Anthropic.

VentureBeat - 1d

Amazon bets savings from automation can help fuel AI spending boom

US tech giant expected to spend as much as $25bn on warehouse automation in broader efficiency drive

Financial Times - 1d

'The knowledge economy is on the way out.' These are the skills workers will need in the age of AI, says LinkedIn

Skills such as creativity, curiosity, courage, compassion and communication will be key as AI continues to disrupt workforces, said LinkedIn's Aneesh Raman.

CNBC - 1d

As many as 41% of employers plan to use AI to replace roles—but it’s not a 'jobs apocalypse,' experts say

A recent survey says that as many as 41% of employers are considering downsizing due to AI. What is the outlook for employees?

CNBC - 1d

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Hume emphasized its Octave TTS pricing is around half the cost of the competing offering from AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs.

VentureBeat - 1d

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs show how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in wireless networks

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks.

VentureBeat - 1d

Amazon unveils revamped Alexa with AI features for $19.99 per month, free for Prime members

Amazon has been working for years to overhaul Alexa with generative AI features as it faced rising competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT and other chatbots.

CNBC - 1d

AI’s power demands spark new joint GE Vernova–NRG electricity plant project

NRG flags need for new partnerships to fuel power development.

MarketWatch - 1d

Eli Lilly's stock recovery chugs along, and Amazon's AI strategy adds a new pillar

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

CNBC - 1d

Slack Imagines a Future Workplace Where You Chat More With AIs Than With Your Colleagues

We’re all used to digital forums for workplace discussions—but what if some of your chatty coworkers were really AIs, not real people?

Inc. - 1d

DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator

Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.

Wired - 1d

Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations in first earnings after debut of DeepSeek AI

Investors will be eyeing firm’s financials for signs of slowing demand after revelation high-end chips not necessary. Nvidia surpassed investor expectations for the fourth quarter of 2024 with a ...

The Guardian - 23h

Value investor Bill Nygren explains why Nvidia isn’t the best AI stock to own now

Look at companies that use AI effectively — not AI hardware manufacturers — Oakmark Fund manager says.

MarketWatch - 23h

Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.

VentureBeat - 22h

Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages

Microsoft's new Phi-4 AI models deliver breakthrough performance in a compact size, processing text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring less computing power than competitors.

VentureBeat - 19h

Salesforce’s growth hits a bad milestone. Can its AI agents provide a boost?

The cloud software pioneer delivered an annual revenue growth rate in the single digits for the first time.

MarketWatch - 6h

Nvidia CEO Huang says AI has to do ‘100 times more’ computation now than when ChatGPT was released

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with CNBC's Jon Fortt following the chipmaker's quarterly earnings report on Wednesday.

CNBC - 6h

Snowflake gains more than 4% on earnings beat as company expands AI push

Snowflake announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft Azure to offer access to OpenAI models on Wednesday.

CNBC - 1h

Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT

Meta's upcoming AI app advances CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to make his company the leader in AI by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.

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