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Tag: AI
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WALMART SIGNS WITH CHATGPT
Walmart has become the latest retailer to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT without leaving the app.
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AI’S VOICE NOW SOUNDS ALL TOO HUMAN
On July 9, a woman sent $15,000 to someone she thought was her daughter, who was on the phone crying that she’d been in an accident and needed the money to stay out of jail.
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AN AI BECAME SELF-REFLECTIVE AND IMPROVED ITS PERFORMANCE
A coalition of AI scientists has trained an AI by Mistral, a French developer, to think before it speaks. Taking that pause has improved the AI’s ability to use common sense and doubled its score on a math test.
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WHY CHATBOTS GUZZLE SO MUCH ENERGY
The rush to build electricity-sucking AI data centers has overwhelmed the energy industry, as we reported in articles including “AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Electricity” (16 Jul 2024) and “By 2030, AI Will Need More Electricity Than Japan, IEA Says” (6 May 2025).
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HUMILITY VS. ‘GREAT RESPONSIBILITY’: ASI AND THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES
Artificial Super Intelligence? Don’t go there. That’s the message signed by hundreds of professionals in the AI tech industries and elsewhere.
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HUMAN-SERVING TECH, OR ‘WE ARE LEGION’ ALIEN SPECIES?
The physical AI endgame is not to create technology that serves humans, but to birth an alien species.
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COST DANGERS MOUNT FOR AI DEVELOPERS
The price of AI development has risen sharply, in part due to “reasons that weren’t widely anticipated,” The Wall Street Journal said. “The economics of artificial intelligence have turned sharply against” the technology’s developers.
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AI HAS CUT AT LEAST 17,375 JOBS FROM THE U.S. ECONOMY THIS YEAR
Businesses adopting AI have dumped 17,000 workers this year through 30 September, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. However, the total is likely more.
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GOOGLE WILL BUILD $15-BILLION AI DATA CENTER IN INDIA
Google has announced a $15-billion, five-year project to build a single AI data center in the southern Indian province of Andhra Pradesh. Between construction and permanent staff, the project will create 188,000 jobs and be Google’s largest data center outside the U.S., the company said.