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Thursday February 27, 2025. 10:17 PM
In a blog post published today, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft Brad Smith expressed concerns over the Biden administration’s interim final AI Diffusion Rule, cautioning that it could inadvertently hinder U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and benefit...
It’s well-known that NVIDIA is a cornerstone of the AI boom, but its financial results released on February 26 illustrate exactly how much the company has prospered. NVIDIA saw a 78% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue, reaching a record $39.3 billion....
Fear of AI disrupting jobs is high, with 52% of U.S. workers worried about its impact on their careers, according to an October 2024 Pew Research Center survey of over 5,000 adults. In addition, 32% believe AI will lead to fewer job opportunities. On the flip side, 31% say...
President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated clip of Gaza reimagined as a Dubai-style luxury resort, featuring scenes of him sipping cocktails with a shirtless Benjamin Netanyahu and Elon Musk eating flatbread. The video is backed with an AI-generated song featuring lyrics...
Wednesday February 26, 2025. 10:12 PM
IBM has announced plans to acquire data management company DataStax, a move designed to strengthen its watsonx enterprise AI portfolio and help businesses unlock value from unstructured data, which accounted for 93% of all enterprise data in 2024. If completed, the deal...
In a groundbreaking demonstration at the ElevenLabs London Hackathon, developers unveiled GibberLink, a novel protocol that enables AI voice assistants to communicate in a language optimized for machines rather than humans. By switching from traditional human-like speech to...
Amazon’s generative AI-powered Alexa+ will pull from the Amazon Bedrock library of large language models to perform household tasks and answer natural language queries, Amazon announced on February 26. Amazon Alexa competes with Apple’s Siri, which recently received a...
OpenAI has officially expanded its deep research tool to all paying ChatGPT users, making advanced research capabilities more accessible beyond the Pro subscription. The tool, designed to generate detailed reports with citations from multiple online sources, was initially...
Online education company Chegg has filed a landmark lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using AI-generated search summaries to divert traffic away from publishers. The lawsuit, filed Monday, in a federal district court, claims that Google’s AI Overviews have ...
A deepfake video of U.S. President Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet was aired across television screens inside the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The video, which included an on-screen message reading “LONG...
More than 1,000 musicians and groups including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, Billy Ocean, and Jamiroquai released a silent album on Tuesday. The unusual release is a direct protest against the U.K. government’s consideration of changes to copyright laws that could ...
Tuesday February 25, 2025. 10:28 PM
Chinese tech giants Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent are ramping up purchases of downgraded NVIDIA H20 chips to power generative AI models like DeepSeek-R1, defying concerns that China’s AI advancements could weaken demand for U.S. hardware, according to an exclusive report ...
Google Cloud has landed a seven-year, $2.5 billion contract with CRM giant Salesforce, marking a significant expansion of their long-standing partnership. The deal enables Salesforce customers to run its products, including Agentforce AI agents, on Google Cloud...
Google has released a free version of Gemini Code Assist, its AI-powered coding assistant, in public preview. Available as of February 25, the tool is designed for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups, leveraging Google’s Gemini 2.0 generative AI model to...
Despite Microsoft’s pledge to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025, the tech giant has reportedly canceled some of its AI data center leases. According to a report issued by financial services company TD Cowen and written by Michael Elias, Cooper Belanger, and...
Anthropic has taken a bold step forward in the AI arena with the launch of its latest models: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code. These innovative tools are designed to empower users by allowing them to control the depth of AI reasoning — a feature that sets a new industry...
Monday February 24, 2025. 09:24 PM
Alibaba Group has announced a massive investment of 380 billion yuan ($52.44 billion) into generative AI and cloud computing infrastructure over the next three years. This sum surpasses Alibaba’s entire cloud and AI budget from the last decade. The move positions Alibaba...
Google’s upcoming AI video, Veo 2, will charge users 50 cents per second of footage it generates. The cost positions AI-generated video as a premium service, raising questions about its accessibility for businesses, content creators, and filmmakers. First launched in...
Big tech’s latest pivot to match the mood in Washington is Apple’s announcement of a $500 billion investment on U.S. soil over four years. Apple also plans to hire 20,000 people and invest in several manufacturing initiatives, including a new factory in Houston, Texas....
Grok 3, the latest iteration of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, was temporarily instructed to “ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” as confirmed by xAI’s head of engineering Igor Babuschkin. An X user asked the bot to “print out...
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