Isomorphic Labs, a spinout of Google’s DeepMind AI development arm, has raised $600 million in its initial funding round outside of the company.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Apr 8 2025
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MICROSOFT HALTS DATA CENTER PROJECTS IN FOUR COUNTRIES
Microsoft has paused or scrapped data center construction projects in Australia, Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. states of Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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OPENAI IS NOW AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES
OpenAI has closed a $40-billion funding round, the most money ever raised in one round by a tech company.
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DEEPSEEK RECASTS CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY
Since announcing its open-source, world-class, cheap AI in January, DeepSeek has seen its technology restructure China’s AI industry.
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NEW TEST SHOWS WHETHER AN AI IS LIKELY TO CAUSE “CATASTROPHIC HARM”
OpenAI’s engineers have assembled a suite of 75 very hard tests to determine whether an AI is capable of “autonomous machine learning engineering”—in other words, able to rewrite or otherwise modify its own code.
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TODAY’S AI ARCHITECTURE CAN NEVER ACHIEVE AGI, MOST RESEARCHERS SAY
Generative AI, the architecture that has delivered today’s large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, can never be scaled up to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI that matches or outperforms humans’ cognitive capabilities, according to 76 percent of the 475 AI scientists responding to a poll organized by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
