TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI "the second tipping point of our times", alongside climate change, and says its risks must be "addressed" (Financial Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing a blanket ban on social media for kids under 13 (New York Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA viral social media post from a Chinese math teacher sparks debate over making English optional in schools across China especially as AI translation improves (New York Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff using AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation (Kane Wu/Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSK Hynix has struck an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing a previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for the deal (Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof (Scott Aaronson/Shtetl-Optimized)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemePolice in Gujarat, India, to question Google after uncovering 500K+ Gmail IDs and passwords used to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022 (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its value should be at least $1.5T (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions" to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly (Thomas Claburn/The Register)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more (Becky Ferreira/404 Media)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject (Kevin Collier/NBC News)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from $2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round (Valida Pau/The Information)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnalysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity is delayed by direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO (SemiAnalysis)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeZuckerberg says "Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security" and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting (Tom Giles/Bloomberg)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDemocrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (New York Times)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeQ&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more (New York Times)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibility and incentive to train models safely and that any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse (Jyoti Mann/The Information)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→