With massive investment being injected into AI startups with no real business, the question that must be answered is, what does an AI business model look like? Berber Jin reports in The Wall Street Journal: Artificial intelligence startup Imbue has hoodies branded with its circular orange logo, an office in the heart of San Francisco […]
What Will AI Do to Humanity?
On his Substack, Jon Rappoport discusses the creation of commercials using images of people generated by artificial intelligence. He wonders if people can trust AI commercials or AI-generated personal assistants; how far will their trust go? Would they be willing to elect AI politicians? He writes: In a job interview with an advertising trade magazine […]
HiPerGator: University of Florida’s Supercomputer Powering AI
At ABC ActionNews, Michael Paluska visits the University of Florida to examine its massive supercomputer, the HiPerGator, and to see the work being done on artificial intelligence. He writes: At the University of Florida, inside a brick building with fake windows, lives a supercomputer called HiPerGator, one of the fastest in the world to harness […]
Can $7 Trillion End AI Chip Scarcity?
In the rush to develop artificial intelligence, the advanced computer chips best suited to powering the machine learning technologies are becoming expensive and scarce compared to demand. The co-founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has a plan to use $5 trillion to $7 trillion in investor money to build enough capacity to revolutionize the world’s chip-building […]
Inside Nvidia HQ
The Wall Street Journal takes a look inside Nvidia’s Santa Clara, CA headquarters.
Can AI Be Controlled? Does It Need to Be?
An upcoming conference held by the MIT Technology Review will investigate some of the ongoing questions about artificial intelligence, including how to control it. In a recent email about its forthcoming EmTech Digital conference, the MIT Technology Review wrote: From V-JEPA to Sora, methods for teaching machines to model the physical world by watching videos […]
Apple Ends Its EV Effort
After spending ten years on developing an electric vehicle, Apple has called it quits. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports: Apple Inc. is canceling a decadelong effort to build an electric car, according to people with knowledge of the matter, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company. Apple made the disclosure internally […]
Is AI Europe’s Chance to Crack into Big Tech?
For the most part, “Big Tech” is dominated by American companies like Apple, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft, but Arthur Mensch, a French scientist who formerly worked for Google, thinks his new company, Mistral AI, and artificial intelligence in general, could be Europe’s launchpad into tech dominance. The Wall Street Journal’s Sam Schechner reports: This time […]
A Luxury Retail Experience for Audiophiles
In The Robin Report, Mark Faithfull describes the new strategy rollout by Bang & Olufsen for selling premium audio and television products in a luxury setting, as exemplified by the company’s new store in London. Faithfull writes: In December 2023 Bang & Olufsen opened the doors to its new flagship concept on London’s upscale New […]
Turns Out, Robots Need Human Help
The robot takeover isn’t going as smoothly as planned. It turns out that sometimes robots need guidance just like humans. Not everything can be automated, yet anyway. Liz Young explains in The Wall Street Journal: Caroline Rutenberg got an alert one day that one of her charges needed help at the Amazon.com warehouse where she works […]