Google now owns an estimated two-thirds of the worldwide search engine market and 90 percent in the U.S.—but maybe not for long.
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AI WILL REPLACE 200,000 EUROPEAN BANK WORKERS BY 2030
Over the next four years, European banks could replace as many as 200,000 employees—about 10 percent of their payrolls—as more people bank online and the banks close branches to cut costs, Morgan Stanley analysts have forecasted after interviewing executives at 35 institutions.
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DEEPSEEK REPORTS AI TRAINING BREAKTHROUGH
In a newly published paper, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has detailed a new approach to training AI models it calls “Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections.” The method allows training larger and larger AIs while reducing needed computer time and, therefore, energy consumption.
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PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM ENTERS THE CLOUD BUSINESS
Brookfield Corp., the parent of Brookfield Asset Management, is entering the AI cloud business and will lease time on data centers’ chips and servers to model developers.
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CHINA REQUIRES 50-PERCENT DOMESTIC CONTENT IN AI HARDWARE
From now on, Chinese AI developers adding chips, data centers, or other related hardware must source at least half of those products from Chinese providers, according to a new rule from Beijing.
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AI BRIEFS
Chinese officials have issued a draft regulation that tightens restrictions on AIs that would mimic human personalities and engage users in emotional relationships.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI ‘RIGHTS’, AND HUMAN REPLACISM
Should “conscious” AI have rights as an evolved, perhaps superior intelligence to humans?
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BASED TECH
Call it a backlash against the DeHuman downsides of AI, the encroachments of ever-more granular surveillance and data scraping, or a desire to simply have tech that just works without unneeded complication.
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CHINESE GOVERNMENT MAKES IT OFFICIAL: BUY CHINESE-MADE AI CHIPS
For the first time, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has added domestic AI chipmakers, including majors Cambricon and Huawei, to its official list of approved suppliers for the country’s businesses and public agencies.
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COMPUTER-HACKING AI’S ARE CLOSE TO SURPASSING HUMAN INTRUDERS
At Stanford University, a group has spent much of this year playing with Artemis, a computer-hacking AI. It works similar to a Chinese invader, built on Anthropic’s Claude AI, that has been burgling U.S. corporate websites and those of governments around the world.