Stanford researchers found AI chatbots often reinforce users’ views in personal conflicts, making people more certain they’re right while reducing empathy, raising concerns about relying on AI as a guide for real-world decisions.
Mistral today said it had secured $830m in debt financing, marking its first debt raise, to buy Nvidia chips to power its first data centre. The French AI startup, which is seen as a European rival …
German industrial AI startup deeplify has announced the successfulclosing of a €2.0 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by D11Z Ventures, with participation from Vanagon Ventures, EWOR, …
AI has a habit of bluffing, and you’re not alone in catching it.
Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk’s “right-hand operator…
Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models designed specifically for prescription wearers, according to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday. The models, codenamed Scriber and Blazer, were first spotted in Federal Communicatio…
Kandou AI, a Swiss semiconductor company that builds chip-to-chip interconnect technology, has raised $225 million in what it calls a Series A round, led by Maverick Silicon with strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, …
The walls are still there, but they’re not as tall anymore.
Meta is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas plants to supply its largest data center, massively expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure underpinning its AI buildout.
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Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb wants to build AGI by studying how the brain learns—then translating those rules into AI.