Microsoft has created a squad of 10 AI tools, known as “agents,” that can send emails, update records, respond to customer contacts, and handle other routine chores with minimal or no human input.
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ARAMCO EARMARKS $100 MILLION FOR AI
The venture capital arm of Saudi Arabia’s national oil company has set aside $100 million to invest in AI startups over the next three years.
BIOSCIENTISTS USE AI TO TURN GENES ON AND OFF
A new AI has designed thousands of DNA “switches” that enable researchers and medical scientists to turn genes on or off with precision at specific points in the body, opening new possibilities for studying and curing a range of genetically-based illnesses.
THE NEXT AI-RELATED SHORTAGE: WATER
The exploding demand for AI has sent utility companies, and even producers of small, portable nuclear power plants, scrambling to meet AI data centers’ endless need for electricity.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: GENE-EDITED PLANTS AND ANIMALS SET TO EXPLODE, AND SMART GLASSES THAT STRIP PRIVACY
The problem with marketing and selling in a more historically normal fashion—by convincing people a product or service will benefit them in some appreciable and obvious way—is that much of what is being invented via sophisticated AI and genetics is controversial, when viewed in the cold light of reason.
AI SURVEILLANCE AND TRANSHUMAN GOD QUESTING PART OF DEMOCRAT CLOSING ARGUMENT IN ELECTION 2024
It looks like a trailer of a new Hunger Games / Mad Max spinoff. In a dystopian future, a group (of whites only!) sits around a hobo fire in the middle of a destroyed city.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUSHES AI FOR MILITARY, SURVEILLANCE
The White House has ordered military and national security agencies to speed their adoption of the most powerful cutting-edge AI systems, including for use in lethal force, according to a new memo sketching out national security plans, Bloomberg reported.
COURT BLOCKS CALIFORNIA’S POLITICAL DEEPFAKE BAN
Just ahead of this year’s election, a federal judge in California has quashed that state’s new law banning digitally created deepfake images and videos that include falsehoods about candidates for public office.
U.K. REGULATORS WILL PROBE GOOGLE ANTHROPIC INVESTMENT, WHILE CO-FOUNDER WARNS AI MAY OUTSMART US WITHIN TWO YEARS
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI will save us, maybe starting as soon as 2026.
BAIN, OPENAI BROADEN PARTNERSHIP
OpenAI and business services firm Bain & Co. are expanding their partnership to sell OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, to Bain’s clients, The Wall Street Journal reported.