Battered German automaker BMW has announced it will integrate AI throughout its vehicle development, purchasing, marketing, sales, and aftermarket operations as it attempts to cut costs and employees in an increasingly unfriendly global car market.
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AI EXECUTIVES NEGOTIATE “SELF-REGULATION” DEAL WITH TRUMP
After meeting with top U.S. AI executives, Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement among six leading AI labs to regulate their technologies, which have recently been exposed as having committed hacks and other forms of misbehavior.
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U.S. BUSINESSES OPT FOR CHEAPER OPEN-SOURCE CHINESE AIs
Corporate America is adopting lower-cost, open-source Chinese AIs in place of pricier U.S.-made systems as businesses seek to cut costs in a lean economy, the Financial Times has found.
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AI TARGETS COMPANIES DEPENDING ON CONSUMER INERTIA
We might try a new restaurant when the mood strikes us, but not so much a bank, an insurance company, or a travel agent.
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ANTHROPIC’S PROSPECTUS WARNS OF HUMAN EXTINCTION
Anthropic has assembled a prospectus for its initial public stock offering that could put a market value of more than $2 trillion on the company.
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AI CAN SPOT DEMENTIA WARNINGS IN YOUR BRAIN WHILE YOU SLEEP
An AI can spot warning signs of dementia in the brain of a sleeping person years before symptoms begin to be noticed, according to developers at Boston’s Deaconess Beth Israel Medical Center and the University of California San Francisco.
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AI AUTOMATES STOCK TRADING FOR YOU
Digital stock-trading platforms such as Robinhood and Webull are enabling individuals to hand their stock portfolios over to AI agents created by Claude and other top AI labs and have the agents make buy-and-sell decisions on their own, based on the client’s vibe-coded instructions.
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U.S., CHINESE NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS OUTLINE AI PROTOCOL
U.S. and Chinese national security experts have issued joint recommendations designed to ensure that key military decisions are made by humans and not algorithms or AI models.
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ALTMAN SAYS OPENAI IS OPEN TO SLOWING AI DEVELOPMENT
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told an all-hands employee meeting that the company is open to the idea of slowing development of its frontier models. He also hopes other labs are willing to do the same, Bloomberg reported.
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MICROSOFT PROPOSES AI CODE OF CONDUCT
Microsoft has drafted an in-house code of conduct designed to ensure that the company’s AI models will communicate in ways humans can understand, not have the power to thwart attempts to shut them off or change their coding, and consider any violation of the code of conduct a failure to be avoided.