The U.S. government has listed Zhipu, China’s most prominent developer of large language AI models, among the Chinese companies U.S. firms are forbidden to do business with. Several of Zhipu’s affiliated companies also made the list.
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A THIRD OF COMPANIES’ AI PROJECTS WILL BE SCRAPPED THIS YEAR, GARTNER SAYS
At least 30 percent of companies’ AI implementations will be abandoned this year after being tested, due to unexpectedly high costs, inadequate preparation to handle related risks, or fuzzy ideas of what the purpose of AI’s use or expected outcomes were to be, according to consulting and research firm Gartner.
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OPENAI RELEASES ITS LATEST “REASONING” MODEL FOR PUBLIC TESTING
OpenAI has quickly followed its o1 “reasoning” AI, released in September, with the o3 and o3-mini versions that can “do increasingly complex tasks that require a lot of reasoning,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a live-streamed announcement.
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AI INVESTORS AND ADOPTERS FEAR BECOMING “ROADKILL”
Osborne. SAI. Tandy. Computer brands that made a splash in their day but now are a spot on the road of tech history.
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AI WAS THE BUZZ AT CES
AI stole the spotlight at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the annual tech-palooza at which companies show off their newest inventions to dazzle lovers of all things digital.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ARE PETS IN PLACE OF KIDS AND AI LOVERS A PART OF THAT AGE OF ABUNDANCE?
A new Age of Abundance is upon us, don’t you know. In just 10 years, a new Forbes article says, goods will be so cheap many people won’t work.
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AI IN BRIEF
Headline start-up firms including Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI coaxed a record $97 billion from venture capital funds in 2024, PitchBook reported, about a third more than the year before.
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FINDING EUROPE’S PLACE IN THE AI REVOLUTION
The dominant AI models might be made by U.S. companies such as Google and OpenAI, but Europe can create an AI industry around tailoring apps based on those platforms for specific industries and companies, Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström said in a Financial Times interview.
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NVIDIA AS VENTURE CAPITALIST
Nvidia passed a $3-trillion market cap in June on its ownership of an estimated 80 percent or more of the market in graphics processing units, the chips that make AI work.
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AI WILL SPARK MERGER SPREE IN DEFENSE INDUSTRIES, ANALYSTS SAY
After servicing wars in Ukraine and the Mideast and supplying various other nations with weapons, in 2026 the world’s 15 largest defense contractors will be sitting on about $50 billion in cash, analysts forecast, about twice as much as at the end of 2021.