Amazon will put at least $20 million into building out its AI infrastructure in Pennsylvania, the company has announced.
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U.K. SHORT ON COMPUTING POWER TO DEVELOP AI, HUANG SAYS
The U.K. is putting together the pieces of a first-rate AI ecosystem but still lacks the computing infrastructure to make the most of it, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said earlier this month.
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GOOGLE’S GEMINI IS NOW A BRITISH CIVIL SERVANT
At the London Tech Week extravaganza this month, U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer extolled the virtues of Extract, a new AI tool to help local planning commissions.
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CHINESE STARTUP SAYS IT’S BETTER THAN DEEPSEEK
MiniMax, yet another Chinese AI developer, says its new, open-source MiniMax-M1 model, is more efficient than closed-source Chinese competitors and also bests DeepSeek's latest R1-0528 model in several standard tests.
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TRAIN ‘EM YOUNG: OPENAI, TOYMAKER MATTEL FORM PARTNERSHIP
OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and Mattel, parent of Barbie and Ken, have announced a “strategic collaboration” to build OpenAI’s technology into Mattel’s toys to “bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences,” according to the company.
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AI WILL ALLOW AMAZON TO CUT WHITE-COLLAR JOBS, CEO SAYS
Amazon’s office workers have been told they’re in danger of being replaced by bots, according to a 17 June memo from CEO Andy Jassy.
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MAJOR AI DEVELOPERS WANT 10-YEAR BAN ON STATE REGULATIONS
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are among tech firms urging the U.S. Senate to preserve a measure in the “big beautiful” omnibus bill that would ban individual states from enacting AI regulations for the next 10 years.
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TECH BRIEFS: AI EATING UP DATA FIRMS AND ENERGY
Without vast amounts of data, including human created content, IP and privileged personal and other data, the “magic” of generative AI and other artificial intelligence systems would be impossible.
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THEY HAVE NO IDEA: DUELING HEADLINES OVER AI JOB REPLACISM
We recently pointed out that one sign of the dangers of unbound “AI Arms Race” type development is that even top innovators and industry CEOs contradict each other regarding just about every aspect of the AI future.
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MIT STUDY CONFIRMS PERILS FOR ‘GENERATION AI’
Young people may be the most at risk from negative effects of generative AI use, including diminishing of critical thinking and other skills.