Anthropic

Artificial Intelligence

Behind Sam Altman’s ‘Code Red’ Response to OpenAI Competitors’ Gains

Photo via Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

In memo this week, Altman promised the release of a new reasoning model next week that bests Google’s Gemini.

2 min read

Photo via Sipa USA/Newscom

Big Tech

Can Google Conquer Its Nvidia Dependency?

Gemini was trained on Google’s in-house chips, which look like a cheaper and more efficient alternative to Nvidia’s cutting-edge products.

2 min read
Photo via Yonhap News/YNA/Newscom

Semiconductors

With AI Bases Loaded, Nvidia Bats a Quarterly Earnings Home Run

Nvidia faced “the tough task of meeting high earnings expectations and high skepticism around AI capex,” per analysts at Bank of America.

2 min read
Photo via Florian Gaertner/picture alliance / BMF/photothek.de/Newscom

Artificial Intelligence

Trillion-Dollar Questions Bubble to the Top for OpenAI

Sam Altman has begun floating the idea that the company could hit $100 billion in revenue by 2027, ahead of previous projections.

2 min read

CIO Upside

Microsoft Wants to Improve AI-Powered Code Generation

Photo via U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Microsoft wants to patent a system to improve how an LLM writes code in response to requests. One step is learning to recognize good code.

1 min read

Photo via imageBROKER/Mojahid Mottakin/Newscom

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Stocks Slide as AI Reality Lags Behind Hype

Part of the investor pullback comes after an MIT report that checked in on the billions that companies have spent on generative AI.

2 min read
Photo via Pavlo Gonchar

CIO Upside

Why Access Controls May Be AI’s Biggest Security Vulnerability

As model providers court government agencies, humans may present a major security threat.

2 min read
Photo illustration by Connor Lin / The Daily Upside

Social Media

Can Reddit Provide a Human-Centric Haven from AI Chatbots?

In our increasingly artificial digital age, sometimes internet denizens desire an actual human touch. Enter Reddit.

6 min read

Media & Entertainment

Apple’s Film Division Finally Finishes First at Box Office

Photo via Apple TV+

While Apple has been able to produce a string of TV hits, making successful movies has proven a little more difficult.

2 min read

Photo via VCG/Newscom

CIO Upside

Reducing Data Security Risks from Model Context Protocol

“If you compromise that AI, you compromise everything that it’s connected to.”

2 min read
Photo by Katrin Bolovtsova via Pexels

CIO Upside

Hallucinations Create Complications When AI Goes to Court

CIOs need to talk to their legal teams about AI “clarity, boundaries, and accountability,” one expert said.

2 min read
Photo via Andrej Sokolow/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom

Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Scoping Out a Superintelligence Lab

As ChatGPT’s partial outage yesterday goes to show, AI companies are still struggling to scale up to artificial general intelligence.

2 min read

CIO Upside

Amazon Ups Its AI Infrastructure Ante

Photo by JHVEPhoto via iStock

The cloud giant is continuing to build out its massive cloud footprint.

2 min read

Sign Up for The Daily Upside to Unlock This Article

Sharp news & analysis on finance, economics, and investing.