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DeepSeek, AI agents, and avoiding a tech-created catastrophe dominated the talk at Davos

Agents bring big benefits—and maybe even bigger risks—AI experts tell CEOs in Davos.

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DeepSeek caused a $600 billion freakout. But China’s AI upstart may not be the danger to Nvidia and U.S. export controls many assume

Jevons Paradox and 'test time compute' mean the need for advanced computer chips may soar, not plummet.

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Lawmakers stop worrying about AI’s existential risk and instead embrace its economic potential

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's endorsement of an AI "action plan" more focused on economic opportunity than societal risks is just one sign of a...

14.01.2025 7

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Why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AI skeptic Gary Marcus are both wrong about today’s AI

Conversations with AI executives, such as Prosus's Euro Beinat, show AI can have a big impact—but only after a lot of work

07.01.2025 2

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What OpenAI’s o3 means for AI progress and what it means for AI adoption are two different things

The cost of new 'reasoning models' may make companies reluctant to use them, even as their capabilities close in on human-level performance at most...

31.12.2024 3

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Top AI labs aren’t doing enough to ensure AI is safe, a flurry of recent datapoints suggest

A third-party lab caught OpenAI's o1 model trying to deceive, while OpenAI's safety testing has been called into question.

17.12.2024 1

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The world needs more electricity—but don’t blame AI, Microsoft president Brad Smith says

AI's energy consumption is growing, but demand for more power is also coming from manufacturing and electric cars.

03.12.2024 5

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Labeling AI-generated content is not as easy as it seems

A case study of LinkedIn's experience with C2PA content credentials highlights the tech's ongoing challenges.

26.11.2024 3

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At Web Summit last week, no sign of an AI slowdown—even if some wouldn’t mind one

AI application companies are valued on what they can do with today's tech, not on future progress.

20.11.2024 4

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Exclusive: Tessl worth a reported $750 million after latest $100 million funding to help it build ‘AI native’ software development platform

Index Ventures leads the latest $100 million Series A round for the company founded by serial entrepreneur "Guypo." GV led a perviously undisclosed...

14.11.2024 10

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Legal tech startup Robin AI raises another $25 million—and what that says about the AI boom

The success of many AI applications does not depend on the continued progress of AI foundation models.

12.11.2024 3

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Investors pour into photonics startups to stop data centers from hogging energy and to speed up AI

U.K. startup Oriole Networks secures a $22 million Series A investment for its radical vision of a fully photonic data center.

21.10.2024 7

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Startup that wants to be the eBay for AI data taps Google vets and a top IP lawyer for key roles

Human Native has hired execs who pioneered Google's partnerships with publishers.

15.10.2024 1

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Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf says open-source AI’s benefits far outweigh its risks

Open-source models are the antidote to today's concentration of power in AI technology, Wolf says.

08.10.2024 20

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Intel’s years of missteps leave it fighting for survival in the Nvidia-dominated AI era

The once-dominant chipmaker missed the rise of artificial intelligence and is now a potential takeover target.

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Microsoft introduces AI agents and updates to Copilot 365 apps as the war to make AI more useful intensifies

The updates come amid complaints from some business customers that they have not seen enough value from Copilot so far.

16.09.2024 2

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