A correction in AI-related stocks and debt could set off market turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. It named the AI risk as one of three that could sharply tighten financial conditions. The other two are a sharp rise in government bond yields and cyber threats.
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast with Will Bain, released on 11 October.
Aramco Digital, the tech arm of Saudi oil giant Aramco, has teamed up with start-up OrbitronAI to build and sell AI tools for heavy industry, the two firms said. The tools are aimed at oil and gas, power, mining, transport, and factory firms.
Sankar made his claim during an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. The exec talked about Pascal’s quote of how there is a God-shaped vacuum, or hole, in the heart of every person, and how many AI workers in Silicon Valley had filled that hole with the machine...
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Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter.
Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for a big say over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public, Reuters reported today, citing two people who know about the talks. Both companies worry that the findings could expose trade secrets.
Amid worries about children’s relationship to tech, the solution is often spending more time talking openly with each other We have become obsessed with the idea that screens are destroying human connection. The evidence seems to be everywhere.
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews all trailed it. The pull is stronger in the UK.
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney.
Many readers dislike AI, but far more dislike Google restricting previously accessible features.
Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou on Tuesday. Several Chinese outlets put the starting price slightly lower, at 2,899 yuan.
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Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services Death has always been around Alaina Winters. Her father and sister both have passed away, as did her wife, in 2023, after a years-long battle with cancer.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk.
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
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Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a survey published on Monday. Pax8 is a Denver-based marketplace.
UiPath’s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath’s own platform instead, chief marketing officer Michael Atalla told TNW.
I’ve tested every single Kindle, from Paperwhite and Colorsoft to the new aluminum models. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.
Naboo, a Paris start-up that books and manages events for large companies, has rebranded, it said on Tuesday. It now pitches itself to procurement and finance teams as well as to event organisers.
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