This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…
Asian suppliers now represent roughly 90% of Nvidia’s production costs, up from about 65% a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Anthropic has reportedly held early discussions with London-based chip startup Fractile about purchasing the company’s inference accelerators.
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Chinese courts ruled that companies cannot automatically fire workers simply because AI can do the job more cheaply, declaring that automation alone does not justify dismissal under labor law.
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Jensen Huang says China has become a lost market for Nvidia due to U.S. sanctions, but warns that America could lose out in a broader AI competition.
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If you’ve ever noticed Android AICore taking up more storage than expected, Google now has an answer — and it turns out the culprit is a perfectly reasonable fail-safe you’d probably want anyway.
You’ve probably felt it — that slightly hollow, going-through-the-motions quality when an AI interaction goes flat. Science is starting to explain why that happens, and who’s responsible for it.
The Academy confirms AI cannot win Oscars for acting or writing, reinforcing that human performance and authorship remain central despite growing use of AI in filmmaking.
A new study finds AI awareness and usage are higher among wealthier groups, raising concerns about a growing digital divide and unequal access to opportunities.
A UK firm has signed a deal with Nigeria’s Katsina State to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts that collectively function as a distributed AI data center, without using electricity from the grid.