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The UK government now expects AI to add £55bn to £140bn to the economy by 2030. Its central estimate is £120bn. Its AI Opportunities Action Plan put the gain at £400bn, and AI minister Kanishka Narayan has now confirmed that Google commissioned the report behind that number.
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Investors had been selling off tech shares in part due to concerns the Democrat election victory would mean slower AI development.
Nothing will ship its first AI device in December, and it is built for work. Chief executive Carl Pei announced it on Wednesday in a long essay on X. He gave no name, price or launch date.
Students admit they rely on AI, and that homework would instantly become harder without it, but they’d still ban it if they could.
Amazon is adding a new feature to Alexa for Shopping that allows customers to purchase items by texting the AI shopping assistant.
The protesters stormed over the walls and took over the construction site, with the Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition saying that more actions are planned across Europe.
Physicl, a Paris-based start-up that creates training data for AI systems that work in the physical world, has raised $10M in seed funding. Inovia Capital led the round, announced on Friday, with U.S. Venture Partners also taking part. The company focuses on what researchers call edge cases.
Meta has bought Conductor, a startup whose app lets software engineers run several AI coding agents at once. Its team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, chief executive Charlie Holtz said. Axios first reported the deal on Wednesday, and Meta did not disclose the price.
Apple keeps a hidden list of around 100,000 words and phrases that its iPhone keyboard will not suggest to users, according to an independent researcher. The list includes political expressions such as “Dictator Trump” and “Sleepy Joe”, Reuters reported today.
Sam Altman says people took his remark about memory in home computers out of context. The OpenAI chief executive made the point on X on Wednesday. Hours earlier, he had renamed himself “Ram Altman” on the platform.
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