Tech Leaders Pledge Up to 500 Billion in Ai Investment in Us

No 10 says it did not sign AI declaration as it did not reflect UK policy on ‘opportunity and security’ – politics live

UK failed to sign agreement at end of Paris summit, along with the US. There will be two urgent questions after 12.30pm: on the Clonoe inquest , which found that the SAS acted unlawfully when they ...

The Guardian - Feb. 11

GTA 6 Boss Discusses Long Wait And How AI Won't Replace "Creative Genius" Of Humans

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has commented on the long wait for Grand Theft Auto VI and spoke out against the idea that artificial intelligence technologies will surpass the "creative genius" ...

GameSpot - Feb. 11

AI-powered sports media company raises $13 million, led by Alexis Ohanian and Giannis Antetokounmpo

ScorePlay, an artificial intelligence service for sports clips, has raised $13 million in series A funding, the company announced Tuesday.

NBC News - Feb. 11

An Adviser to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump

Dan Hendrycks is researching new methods of assessing AI risks that could be used to shape Grok’s politics.

Wired - Feb. 11

Intel shares rise after VP Vance promises to safeguard American AI and chips

Intel shares rallied on Tuesday after Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. will protect American artificial intelligence technologies.

CNBC - Feb. 11

LangChain shows AI agents aren’t human-level yet because they’re overwhelmed by tools

LangChain evaluated a single AI agent to see if its performance degrades when given more context and tools, essentially overwhelming it.

VentureBeat - Feb. 11

Ex-Google chief warns west to focus on open-source AI in competition with China

Eric Schmidt’s caution comes following Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s breakthrough

Financial Times - 6d

Europe wants to be part of the AI race against China and the U.S. — and shake off its anti-innovation image

Europe is looking to be a part of the conversation around AI leadership and innovation that has so far been dominated by the U.S. and China.

CNBC - 6d

A 40% stock-market crash? How AI hype could unravel—and how investors can brace for a selloff.

BNP Paribas, took a look at possible extreme scenarios investors should consider for 2025, like a 40% stock drop.

MarketWatch - 6d

Scarlett Johansson calls out AI misuse after viral video ripping Ye

Scarlett Johansson says while she has "no tolerance" for hate speech, she's calling out the "misuse of AI" in a viral video featuring her and other Jewish performers responding to antisemitic ...

The Hill - 6d

Google says U.S. is facing a power capacity crisis in AI race against China

The U.S. is facing a power capacity crisis as the tech sector races against China to achieve dominance in artificial intelligence, an executive leading the energy strategy of Alphabet’s Google unit ...

NBC News - 6d

Shoes, Teddy Bears, Diaper Changing Pads, and Candles: Why AI Product Integrations Are Getting Out of Control

Why do so many products that don’t seem to need AI integration still feel the need to include it?

Inc. - 6d

Google says U.S. is facing a power capacity crisis in AI race against China

China's DeepSeek sent the shares of major power companies tumbling in late January on speculation that its AI model is cheaper and more efficient.

CNBC - 6d

Less supervision, better results: Study shows AI models generalize more effectively on their own

Training LLMs and VLMs through reinforcement learning delivers better results than using hand-crafted examples.

VentureBeat - 6d

The real Scarlett Johansson decries 'misuse of AI' by a deepfake video shaming Kanye West

Scarlett Johansson stands firmly against AI after a self-declared 'generative AI expert' lifts her likeness and others' for a viral post condemning Kanye West.

Los Angeles Times - 6d

AppLovin’s stock ignites further on AI plans, as company moves toward sale of mobile gaming unit

The app-monetization company crushed expectations with its latest results and said it’s poised for more momentum as it improves its AI models and better personalizes the ad experience.

MarketWatch - 6d

Taking AI to the playground: LinkedIn combines LLMs, LangChain and Jupyter Notebooks to improve prompt engineering

LinkedIn's collaborative prompt engineering playground helps bridge the gap between engineers and product managers.

VentureBeat - 5d

Scarlett Johansson warns of dangers of AI after Kanye West deepfake goes viral

Short film falsely depicts actor and other Jewish celebrities opposing recent antisemitic remarks from pop star. Scarlett Johansson has warned of the “imminent dangers of AI” after a deepfake video ...

The Guardian - 5d

Global disunity, energy concerns and the shadow of Musk: key takeaways from the Paris AI summit

AI Action Summit ends with US vice-president criticising European regulation and warning against cooperation with China. Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third ...

The Guardian - 4d

Crypto scams likely hit a new record in 2024, driven by 'pig butchering' and AI, says Chainalysis

Crypto scam revenue is estimated to have hit record levels last year as cybercriminals leverage new technologies like AI and become more organized.

CNBC - 4d

I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about | Alexander Hurst

Experts are split between concerns about future threats and present dangers. Both camps issued dire warnings. I was a technophile in my early teenage days, sometimes wishing that I had been born in ...

The Guardian - 4d

A Legal Win for Content Creators Could Change How AI Models Get Built

The first fair use AI copyright case in the U.S. has ended in favor of original content maker Thomson Reuters, which could affect the outcomes of similar cases.

Inc. - 4d

‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3

One DeepHermes-3 user reported a processing speed of 28.98 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro M4 Max consumer hardware.

VentureBeat - 4d

Wall Street buys into Newmark Group’s AI data-center prospects as stock rallies

Newmark Group’s stock saw sharp gains on Friday, with investors snapping up shares of the commercial real-estate services company as it talked up its prospects for artificial-intelligence data ...

MarketWatch - 4d

AI could help make a 4-day workweek happen, says expert: 'I absolutely think so'

As companies adopt new tech like AI and see what kind of productivity gains they bring, some could adopt a four-day workweek down the line, say experts.

CNBC - 1d

Replit and Anthropic’s AI just helped Zillow build production software—without a single engineer

Replit partners with Anthropic's Claude and Google Cloud to enable non-programmers to build enterprise software, as Zillow and others deploy AI-generated applications at scale, signaling a shift in ...

VentureBeat - 1d

Posts claiming Macron 'ignored' Modi at AI summit share out-of-context clip

Yahoo News - 16h

Aomni just raised $4M to prove AI can boost sales without replacing humans

Aomni raises $4M to help sales teams close more deals with AI-powered research agents that provide real-time, deep prospect intelligence—boosting close rates by up to 40%.

VentureBeat - 11h

Elon Musk’s startup rolls out new Grok-3 chatbot as AI competition intensifies

Billionaire CEO claims bot is ‘maximally truth-seeking’ as he looks to rival DeepSeek, OpenAI and Google Gemini. Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the ...

The Guardian - 8h

Elon Musk just released an AI that’s smarter than ChatGPT — here’s why that matters

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 3, outperforming ChatGPT and Google Gemini in benchmarks with 200,000 GPUs and advanced reasoning capabilities, intensifying AI competition days after failed OpenAI bid.

VentureBeat - 6h

Trump tariffs, Musk's DOGE role and AI are among the top concerns shared by CEOs, Cramer says

Among major executives' primary concerns are the actions of the Trump administration and artificial intelligence, Cramer said.

CNBC - 1h

Dell expected to provide lower guidance next week, but AI servers remain a big bright spot

Here’s why one analyst advises, “Don’t bet against Michael Dell.”

MarketWatch - 1h

AI can fix bugs—but can’t find them: OpenAI’s study highlights limits of LLMs in software engineering

A new test from OpenAI researchers found that LLMs were unable to resolve some freelance coding tests, failing to earn full value.

VentureBeat - 2h

Coca-Cola says Trump tariffs could force it to increase use of plastic in US

Introduction of 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports could push up canned food and drink prices. Coca-Cola has said it may have to increase its use of plastic in the US if Donald Trump’s ...

The Guardian - 6d