Mostly Ai’s Synthetic

Music Can Thrive in the AI Era

It’s past time we applauded the creative skills of LLMs—and it might make us appreciate humans more too.

Wired - 21h

No, AI will not win the next war

This enthusiasm for AI as America's next great military advantage may be overlooking the enduring realities of warfare.

The Hill - 1d

Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon

The latest three-letter acronym to excite and alarm people

Financial Times - 2d

Amazon says picketers mostly aren't company employees, Teamsters say Amazon is gaslighting

Amazon facilities in several states Thursday are seeing picket lines encouraged by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans has more.

CBS News - 2d

What's next for AI in 2025?

After a landmark year for AI advancements like chatbots and image generation, questions loom about the future. Generative AI expert Sam Gregory shares what's ahead.

CBS News - 3d

An AI roadmap for Congress

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story House AI task force releases sweeping end-of-year report The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence ...

The Hill - 4d

Salt AI raises $3M for AI workflow orchestration

Salt, an AI workflow orchestration firm for enterprises, raised $3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.

VentureBeat - 4d

Google: AI agents, multimodal AI, enterprise search will dominate in 2025

Google used NotebookLM, Google Trends and third-party insights to identify AI agents, multimodal AI and enterprise search as top 2025 trends.

VentureBeat - 4d

AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All

Traditional hierarchies hold businesses back. Instead, teams need to combine human and artificial intelligence to succeed.

Wired - 6d

Synthetic data has its limits — why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse

With model degradation, AI development could stall, leaving AI systems unable to ingest new data and essentially becoming “stuck in time.”

VentureBeat - Dec. 14

Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’

CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on a self-harm-prevention project for Meta.

Inc. - Dec. 11

The AI agents are coming

A new layer of digital plumbing between apps could bring important changes to how people use technology

Financial Times - Dec. 11

Nearly 200 people, mostly elderly, killed in gang-led massacre in Haiti

A gang-led massacre in Haiti has killed nearly 200 people, mostly elderly, as violence continues to grow in the country. Jacqueline Charles, Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald, ...

CBS News - Dec. 11

Scaling AI: Platform best practices

While the details will vary, there are 4 common principles that help companies to successfully deploy AI at scale.

VentureBeat - Dec. 11

How AI could impact medicine

Chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence in medicine. AI is being used for things like interpreting imaging, flagging ...

CBS News - Dec. 10

Haiti Gangs Kill More Than 180 Mostly Elderly People in Capital

A warlord ordered the slaying of elderly slum residents he suspected of giving his son a severe illness through witchcraft, the U.N. and human-rights groups said.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 9

Behind Vectra AI’s deliberate approach to building AI agents for cybersecurity

Unlike traditional security tools, Vectra uses AI agents to scrutinize encrypted and decrypted traffic metadata in a dynamic and holistic way.

VentureBeat - Dec. 9

How Databricks is using synthetic data to simplify evaluation of AI agents

Multiple enterprises are using Databricks' synthetic data API, seeing a significant time reduction to improve agent quality and deployment.

VentureBeat - Dec. 9

This Startup Has an AI-Powered Solution to Fight Wildfires

FireDome emerged from stealth Tuesday to combat wildfires with technology that is designed after a missile defense system.

Inc. - Dec. 6

Spotify Wrapped Went All-In on AI and Everyone Hates It

No one is happy with the streaming giant’s latest attempt to get us to share screenshots of our favorite music.

Inc. - Dec. 6

Trump names David Sacks as AI, crypto czar

President-elect Trump said Thursday that venture capitalist David Sacks will serve as the White House artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency czar. In the newly created role, Sacks will ...

The Hill - Dec. 6

Canva Revolutionized Graphic Design. Will It Survive the Age of AI?

Generative AI could have been an existential threat for Canva, which made billions by making graphic design quick and easy. But for CEO Melanie Perkins, it’s simply making the world more visual.

Wired - Dec. 6

AI Data Centers Sprout and Grow With Increased Demand

Meta plans to build $10 billion AI data center in Louisiana as Elon Musk expands his Tennessee AI facility.

Inc. - Dec. 5

J.J. Redick 'embarrassed' after 41-point loss to Heat, but Lakers issues mostly about roster

The Lakers have lost their last two games by a combined 70 points and are 2-6 in their last eight.

Yahoo Sports - Dec. 5

The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry's Obsession

Chatbot Arena ranks the world’s best AI models on a leaderboard based on user voting in head-to-head competitions between bots.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 5

The future of AI agents: highly lucrative but surprisingly boring

Big companies are trumpeting the value of consumer-facing personal digital helpers to make our lives easier

Financial Times - Dec. 5

AI Hits a Wall: What This Means for the Tech Industry

AI commercialization is a game of musical chairs and the music has stopped. For now.

Inc. - Dec. 5

OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI

The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthropic.

Wired - Dec. 4

Musk plans to expand Colossus AI supercomputer tenfold

Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire’s xAI aims to catch up with rivals

Financial Times - Dec. 4

AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ahead.

Wired - Dec. 4

A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI

MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.

Wired - Dec. 4

Blame AI for your gruelling job interview

Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

Financial Times - Dec. 4

Apple says it uses Amazon's custom AI chips

Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom AI chips for services like searching and will evaluate if its latest AI chip can be used to pre-train its AI models like Apple Intelligence.

CNBC - Dec. 3

Treasury yields finish mostly higher ahead of no-confidence vote in France

Investors sold off long- and intermediate-term U.S. government debt on Tuesday, pushing corresponding yields to slightly higher closing levels ahead of a vote in France that could topple that ...

MarketWatch - Dec. 3

AWS SageMaker is transforming into a combined data and AI hub

The next-generation of SageMaker will make accessing data assets and wide-ranging tools to make the most of them faster than ever.

VentureBeat - Dec. 3

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

At its Re:Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.

Wired - Dec. 3

Idaho’s ‘abortion trafficking’ law mostly can be enforced as lawsuit proceeds, court rules

A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Idaho’s law that makes it illegal to help minors get an abortion without their parents’ consent can take effect while a lawsuit challenging its ...

ABC News - Dec. 3

Asian chip stocks mostly rise, shrugging off new U.S. semiconductor export curbs on China

Shares of major Asian chip stocks mostly rose on Tuesday, shrugging off the U.S. announcing new emiconductor export controls on China.

CNBC - Dec. 3

Passengers in fatal bus crash near French ski resort were mostly Colombian nationals living in Spain

Colombian officials say most of the victims of a bus crash in Southern France, in which two people were killed and dozens were injured, are citizens of the South American country, who reside in Spain

ABC News - Dec. 2

How AI Tools Are Revolutionizing Startup Launch Strategies

From lower costs to new founder skills, accessible AI is transforming how startups go from idea to market.

Inc. - Dec. 1

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