The cause of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has never been determined. Instead, the basket of symptoms has become a catch-all diagnosis for kids misbehaving and has millions around the world popping Adderall and Ritalin tablets like they’re M&Ms.
The ongoing “AI Arms Race” of major global powers, and the lack of any political or popular will to limit pursuit of the most powerful possible AI, regardless of the potential dangers, has left many feeling resigned.
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer that jolted the industry in January by releasing a world-class model that it said it built on the cheap, now says it spent just $294,000 to train it.
So far this year, OpenAI—which valued itself at $500 billion in a recent stock deal—has contracted for $60 billion a year in Oracle computing services, paid $18 billion as a partner in a data service project, spent $10 billion on state-of-the-art computer processors, and said it will build a brand new AI device.
AI data centers could consume far less electricity, and process tasks as much as 100 times faster, thanks to a new graphics processing unit, or AI chip developed at the University of Florida.
The Cyberspace Administration of China has ordered AI companies, including major developers such as Alibaba and ByteDance, to halt all present and future orders for RTX Pro 6000D chips made by California-based Nvidia, the world’s market leader in advanced AI processors, the Financial Times reported.
U.S. AI giants including Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have committed to invest tens of billions of dollars to equip the U.K. with an advanced AI infrastructure, including data centers and supercomputers.
AI could boost productivity and lower costs enough over the next 15 years to increase the value of world trade by as much as 37 percent, according to a new report by the World Trade Organization.
President Donald Trump’s effort to squeeze $15 billion out of The New York Times was rejected by a federal judge on Friday, who called the lawsuit “superfluous” with “florid” allegations.
An investment firm tied to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan deposited $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company led by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons and the son of his top envoy Steve Witkoff, just two weeks before the administration allowed Abu Dhabi to have access to the world’s most powerful computer chips—raising new ethical concerns.