China’s government is increasing pressure on domestic artificial intelligence (AI) companies to not buy AI chips from Nvidia, the U.S. company that produces most of the world’s state-of-the-art AI processors.
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COMPANIES GRAPPLE WITH “THE AI PARADOX”
Business services firm McKinsey & Co. calls it “the generative AI paradox:” eight in 10 of its client companies say they have deployed AI in their operations, but the same proportion—aside from tech companies providing the equipment—say they have seen no bottom-line impact.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE ITEMS OUTSELL CONSUMER PRODUCTS AT FOXCONN
In this year’s second quarter, Foxconn—the world’s largest electronics assembler—made more items for building cloud and AI infrastructure than consumer electronics.
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DEEPSEEK IS UNABLE TO TRAIN ITS NEXT MODEL ON CHINESE CHIPS
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer that stunned the world in January with its world-class large language model made on the cheap, has been forced to delay the release of its R2 reasoning AI.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AS WE WARNED IN 2021, AI SURVEILLANCE EVERYWHERE
Google, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Deepseek. The names may be different, but the object is the same: to embed AI into every moment and activity of your life, whether you want it, or even fully realize it’s there.
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SPECIAL REPORT: IS THE AI BUBBLE READY TO BURST?
While we are banned from the mainstream media, as Trends Journal subscribers well know, we had forecast a Dot-com Bust 2.0 on 28 January.
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ALIENS…AND ALIEN AI
What are the chances that an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) might side with aliens to manipulate, subjugate or wipe out humanity?
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DOCTORS USING AI FOR THIS DIAGNOSIS ARE LESS ACCURATE, NOT MORE
Physicians reading the results of colonoscopies lost accuracy as they used AI more, according to a Polish study involving 1,400 patients.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
U.S.-based human resources leaders conducted multiple rounds of layoffs in the past year with many saying they implemented “serial layoffs” that occurred in rapid succession, according to a recent survey by outplacement firm Careerminds. Financial instability was cited as the biggest factor in the job cuts, followed by changing business priorities, market uncertainty, and overstaffing.
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APPLE IS BLEEDING AI TALENT AS RIVALS POACH KEY STAFF
About a dozen members of Apple’s key AI team have moved to competitors Cohere, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI this year as the iPhone creator “struggles to stay relevant in Silicon Valley’s ferocious AI talent war,” the Financial Times reported.