The U.S. defense department has awarded contracts to AI developers Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk’s xAI. Each company signed deals worth up to $200 million each.
Tag: AI
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AI BOOSTS UNILEVER’S SOAL SALES
Advertising is shifting its emphasis from websites to social media influencers, as we reported in “Artificial Intelligence Eats the Ad Industry” (17 Jun 2025). Unilever, the global conglomerate owning more than 400 brands of consumer products, is using AI to make the most of the transfer.
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IN A FEW MOMENTS, AI DESIGNS PROTEIN TO KILL RESISTANT BACTERIA
At Australia’s Monash University, biologists and computer scientists collaborated to create an AI that, in a few seconds, designed a protein that can kill e. coli and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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NEW PROGRAMS SHIELD MEDIA COMPANIES’ CONTENT FROM “SCRAPING”
Media companies are tired of having their websites scraped and rescraped and they’re reaching for new tools to stop the bleeding.
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VIBE CODING IS EATING THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROFESSION
“Vibe coding” is dramatically reshaping the coding profession. In vibe coding, a person tells an AI in conversational language what he or she wants an app or software program to do.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI REPLACISM, AI OPTIMISM…AND ELON
A new Bank of America report on how quantum computing technology will likely transform sectors and create investment opportunities over the next decade drew a connection between quantum advances and AI development.
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AS FORECAST: ENERGY REALISM AT GM, AND AI CONTINUES TO KILL CLIMATE CHANGE STAR
Electricity demand, water for cooling…turns out, you can’t have an AI Arms Race without consuming a lot of resources that not so long ago would’ve been widely lambasted as fueling existential “climate crisis.”
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MSM CONTINUES TO CATCH ON TO AI INTERNET DESTRUCTION, AND AUTHORS TELL CONGRESS TO STOP THE AI STEAL
The Economist picked up on the import of what generative AI searches are doing to the revenue model of millions of endpoint websites that have labored to create content, and which depend on traffic to sustain their business models.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: TOKENIZATION HAZARDS, AND MORE MSM ALARM ON AI JOB REPLACISM
Not so long ago, legacy media mostly repeated what we said were deceptive claims by the AI industry that the technology would create more human jobs than it decimated.
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TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD: TECH TITANS CONTINUE TO VOICE AI CONCERNS
The same tech CEOs shoveling billions into the AI Arms Race continue to at least periodically betray reservations and dystopian “tells” concerning the technology.
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