Market-leading chipmaker Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined the partnership between Microsoft and private equity giant BlackRock to build up to $100 billion worth of AI data centers and electricity supplies to power them.
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“DISTILLATION” IS AI’S NEW THING
On 20 January, Chinese start-up DeepSeek revolutionized the AI industry by unveiling a new, world-class platform that it had created for a fraction of the cost that Western industry giants had spent.
A “SUPERINTELLIGENCE” TO SPEED SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
Behind closed doors near Boston, Lila Sciences has worked for more than two years to fashion a “superintelligence” to automate scientific progress.
FROM DENIAL TO ARROGANCE: WORKERS TOLD TO ‘GET OVER’ AI TAKING THEIR JOBS
Legacy media still mostly spouts the lines of tech CEOs (at least the ones who haven’t politically transgressed) concerning both the inevitability and the general gee-whiz awesomeness of AI and fast approaching AGI and ASI.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI MUST BE ALLOWED TO STEAL IP BECAUSE ‘NATIONAL SECURITY’, PLUS MORE HUMAN WORKER OBSOLESCENCE
Tech companies including Meta and OpenAI, who developed generative and now Agentic AI to divert huge profits from human creatives to themselves, have been battling copyright and IP laws in courts for several years now.
RAY KURZWEIL GOT IT WRONG: AI AND TECHNOLOGY NOT FOSTERING SMARTER HUMANS
AI, and other general technology advances like smartphones and even the internet, are not making people smarter.
AI MAKES YOU AND YOUR COMPANY “SUPERHUMAN,” ENTREPRENEUR SAYS
“Humans who don’t embrace AI in a company will be replaced by humans who do,” Anthony Tan, founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s preeminent ride-hailing company, said in an 11 March CNBC interview. “The same will apply to companies.”
FIRST JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION: HOW SKILLED ARE YOU IN AI?
One in four tech jobs being posted specifies AI-related skills, with the proportion rising to 36 percent in the information-tech patch of that sector, The Wall Street Journal reported.
MCDONALD’S SUPERSIZES ITS AI INVESTMENT
AI is the main course in the technological makeover the burger chain is making to its 43,000 restaurants.
MISTRAL EMBRACES OPEN-SOURCE IN NEW AI MODELS
Mistral, the French AI developer, says it will unveil new platforms “pretty soon” that will outperform DeepSeek’s R1 model.