Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia, ADM Buoyed by Saudi AI Deals, Softer US Export Controls

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A change in US export controls on advanced semiconductors presaged a wave of AI deals between the US and Saudi Arabia this week.

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Artificial Intelligence

Europe is Hot on AI Regulation, Less So on Startup Policy

The EU’s landmark AI Act is due to come into force next month, and founders and lawmakers are fretting over whether it’s fit for its purpose.

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Patent Drop

Nvidia AI Watermarking Patent Could Help Separate Real from Fake

The benefits of watermarking AI are clear: “It’s preventing fraud, preventing misinformation and disinformation.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Whistleblowers File SEC Complaint over NDAs

OpenAI allegedly issued overly-restrictive non-disclosure agreements that could penalize anyone who blows the whistle to government agencies.

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Artificial Intelligence

Chegg Cuts Workforce as AI Takes Over the Chat

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Online learning company Chegg is laying off almost a quarter of its workforce amid worries that AI is doing people’s homework for them.

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Big Tech

Microsoft and Occidental Agree to Massive Carbon Credit Deal

Microsoft is is buying 500,000 carbon credits from Occidental Petroleum over the next six years to help reach its carbon-negative goal.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Data Patent Walks the Line of Privacy Versus Nuance in AI Training

Though keeping privacy front-of-mind could help avoid AI-related data breaches, balancing privacy and nuance in data may be tricky.

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Patent Drop

Amazon Patent May Help Models Unlearn Biases, Inaccuracies

And Amazon wants to help machine learning models unlearn bad data.

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Artificial Intelligence

Google AI-ngst: Apple Deal May Disintegrate Even Without Court Intervention

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The future of traditional search engines got a rude awakening last week as an Apple executive predicted their eventual demise.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Could Upend Electricity Demand

AI’s energy needs are enormous, and could have a once-in-a-generation impact on the electricity market.

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Big Tech

AI Started a New Storm in Geopolitics

As the AI market matures, there is a stark realization in public sectors elsewhere that this is America’s AI world.

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Patent Drop

Google Patent Signals Interest in Small Chatbots Amid Language Model Craze

Google wants to make chatbot development easier with its latest patent.

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CIO Upside

DeepMind Patent Shrinks Model Size Without Compromise

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Small and energy-efficient models have garnered growing attention in recent months.

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Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Wants to Settle the ‘Fair Use’ AI Question Once and For All

Several years into the great AI revolution, it still remains an unsettled question whether firms are committing mass copyright infringement.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Are Betting Billions on AI Smartphones. But Consumers Aren’t Sold

Big Tech is hoping AI-powered smartphones will be the first of many great returns on its eye-popping AI investments.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia Fights to Stay One Step Ahead of AI’s Many Evolutions

This year’s Nvidia GTC event comes after the bombshell DeepSeek moment, the acceleration of a global trade war, and a broader market rout.

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