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OpenAI ex-board member Helen Toner says revoking ban on Nvidia AI chip exports would be a ‘huge victory’ for China

Scrapping export restrictions on top-of-the-line GPU chips because of DeepSeek's s AI success would hand China a major win, says Toner.

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DeepSeek just flipped the AI script in favor of open-source—and the irony for OpenAI and Anthropic is brutal 

DeepSeek’s R1 model has rattled the industry and slashed Nvidia’s stock. But for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, there is an ironic twist.

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OpenAI’s Stargate may be tech’s biggest gamble ever, but here’s what’s really at stake

Stargate isn’t just a massive AI investment—it’s a high-stakes bet on technology, power, and future global dominance.

23.01.2025 5

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‘A sense of panic’: Immigrant AI talent worry Trump could make an already broken visa system worse  

As the U.S. pushes for AI dominance, top immigrant talent struggles with a broken visa system—and looming Trump uncertainty

21.01.2025 8

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U.K. regulator says Google has ‘strategic market status’ and launches probe into search dominance

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority will probe whether "Google is using its position to prevent innovation by others".

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Fearing a visa crackdown by Trump, immigrant tech workers cancel overseas vacations and skip family visits

Companies urge immigrant workers traveling overseas to return to U.S. before January 20 amid fears of Trump blocking their return.

14.01.2025 6

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Nvidia lashes out at Biden’s last-minute export controls on AI chips and rushes to praise Trump

Once reticent to get involved in policy debates, Nvidia issued a sharply-worded blog post criticizing Biden's sweeping new export restrictions on AI...

13.01.2025 3

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new AI platform to dominate the ‘ChatGPT moment’ in robotics

Nvidia extends its big bet on providing the 'picks and shovels' for a coming robotics boom.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI’s new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this AGI?

The new o3 models did so well on a prominent benchmark that some immediately questioned whether OpenAI, had, in fact, achieved AGI.

21.12.2024 4

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Michael Dell says adoption of AI PCs is ‘definitely delayed,’ but it’s coming: ‘I’ve seen this movie a couple times before’

Executives on Dell’s earnings call last month said that the company’s anticipated customer refresh to new AI-enabled PCs is going slower than...

18.12.2024 3

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Execs must use AI and understand it — but don’t become ‘too enamored’ by the technology, warn business leaders

Business leaders from Salesforce, Edward Jones, Insight, and Accenture shared their views on the best way to become an AI "expert" at Fortune's...

17.12.2024 8

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Big Tech wants AI data centers now. The reality: Clean energy infrastructure can take a half-decade or more to build

Big Tech’s race to power AI data centers has hit a bottleneck: Clean energy infrastructure moves at a snail’s pace compared to tech’s lightning...

13.12.2024 5

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Fortune Brainstorm AI showed cautious optimism, but companies are growing skeptical about hyped-up promises

Companies using AI are moving beyond FOMO to ROI—and other lessons from Fortune Brainstorm AI.

10.12.2024 6

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Microsoft’s biz dev boss on the big bets that could define the future of AI

Microsoft’s Christopher Young shares how AI is taking shape in areas like embodied tech, sustainable data centers, and venture bets on...

10.12.2024 5

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A group of artists just leaked access to OpenAI’s hotly anticipated Sora video tool to protest ‘corporate AI overloads’

A group of artists, volunteering as beta testers for OpenAI's Sora video AI model, shared the API to access the model on Hugging Face in protest,...

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How Mark Zuckerberg went all-in to make Meta a major AI player and threaten OpenAI’s dominance

The open-source models that Zuckerberg helped Llama catch up with ChatGPT; Meta stock, meanwhile, has reached all-time records.

19.11.2024 3

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Elon Musk’s xAI safety whisperer just became an advisor to Scale AI

Dan Hendrycks, AI safety advisor to Elon Musk's xAI, recently posted on his LinkedIn profile that he has taken on a similar role at Scale AI.

14.11.2024 4

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Think Donald Trump’s AI policy plans are predictable? Prepare to be surprised

What to expect from Trump's all-important AI policy, as the U.S. tries to stay ahead in the race for tech supremacy.

08.11.2024 2

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Exodus at OpenAI: Nearly half of AGI safety staffers have left, says former researcher

A group of OpenAI researchers ensuring that a future AGI system does not pose catastrophic or even existential danger has been decimated.

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