OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced on X last week that he’s leaving the company to join Anthropic, a younger and fast-rising competitor.
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SOFTBANK FOUNDER: SUPER AI WILL ARRIVE BY 2035
Artificial superintelligence, an AI with abilities beyond human understanding, will be here within 10 years, Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Softbank, an influential, multi-billion-dollar Japanese private equity venture fund, said in June.
“GIVE ME $5 BILLION FOR MY AI COMPANY,” MUSK TELLS TESLA’S BOARD
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been ranked as the world’s richest person, with assets of around a quarter of a trillion dollars.
MICROSOFT WILL INVEST MORE IN CLOUD AS GROWTH SLOWS
Microsoft will continue pouring money into expanding its cloud infrastructure to support the AI economy even though growth in its cloud business has slowed, the company announced.
GOOGLE MOVES AGAINST DEEPFAKE PORN
Google is enlisting its iconic search engine in the battle against deepfake porn.
MORGAN STANLEY BUILDS ITS OWN AI TOOL FOR FINANCIAL ADVISORS
Morgan Stanley has deployed AI@Morgan Stanley Debrief, which summarizes meetings and rough-drafts follow-up emails for the company’s financial advisors.Instead of adapting a bot built by an AI company, the bank worked with engineers at OpenAI to create this AI from scratch, customized to its own needs. With that approach, “you get to design it, make it......
ORNL CREATES AN AI TO DEFEND THE ELECTRIC GRID
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is leading a project developing an AI to protect the U.S. electric grid from cyberthreats, a growing concern as the country’s aging electrical infrastructure connects more and more distributed power sources ranging from home batteries and wind turbines to electric cars.
OPENAI ANNOUNCES ITS OWN SEARCH ENGINE
OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a search engine that could dethrone Google from the pinnacle of the Internet search market.
CONSUMERS HAVE HIT THEIR LIMIT WITH HIGH FOOD PRICES
With consumers turning away from national brands and eating at home instead of out, food companies are scrambling to win back their customers while also trying to protect their margins and what have been comfortable profits over the past three years.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
One might ponder whether (still) President Joe Biden will fully “grok” the message.