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Q&A with Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, and more (www.theverge.com)
28 days ago AI

How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (apnews.com)
28 days ago AI chatbot

Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews (indianexpress.com)
28 days ago Google AI

AI's Prophet of Doom wants to shut it all down (indianexpress.com)
28 days ago AI

Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI “doomers” fade in prominence (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago AI

An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more (www.nytimes.com)
28 days ago Interview AI

Malaysia reins in data center expansion amid power and water shortages, hindering Chinese companies that use the region as a backdoor to access US-made AI chips (www.reuters.com)
28 days ago China AI Malaysia

Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago AI

Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024 (www.wsj.com)
29 days ago Google AI

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: “Hypernova” smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (www.engadget.com)
29 days ago AI

California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (www.politico.com)
29 days ago AI California

OpenAI launches ‘Grove' programme to mentor AI Entrepreneurs (indianexpress.com)
29 days ago AI Entrepreneur

Apple's AI and search executive Robby Walker to leave: Reports (indianexpress.com)
29 days ago AI Apple

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (www.businessinsider.com)
29 days ago AI

Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files for a US IPO and reports H1 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to $172.9M and net income up 98.2% YoY to $11.1M (www.reuters.com)
29 days ago IPO AI

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (pulse2.com)
29 days ago Startup AI

Copenhagen-based Teton.ai, which offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and improve workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Plural (www.mobihealthnews.com)
29 days ago AI

Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally (www.scmp.com)
29 days ago Alibaba Startup AI

Newfoundland's 10-Year Education Report Calling For Ethical AI Use Contains Over 15 Fake Sources (news.slashdot.org)
29 days ago AI Education

Atolio, which is making a private AI-powered search tool for enterprises, raised a $24M Series A led by Translink Capital (www.finsmes.com)
29 days ago AI

Penguin Ai, which offers AI-powered tools for administrative tasks to healthcare payers and providers, raised $29.7M, including a $25M Series A led by Greycroft (www.mobihealthnews.com)
29 days ago AI

Spotify Peeved After 10,000 Users Sold Data To Build AI Tools (entertainment.slashdot.org)
30 days ago AI Spotify

France-based Scintil Photonics, which is developing integrated photonic system-on-chips for AI infrastructure, raised a $58M Series B led by Yotta and NGP (tech.eu)
30 days ago France AI

Sources: Robby Walker, one of Apple's most senior AI executives who was in charge of Siri until earlier this year, is leaving the company next month (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago AI Apple

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by O1A at a $500M valuation (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI

Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; Chinese media says he got a CN¥100M, or ~$66M, pay package (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago China AI Tencent

Microsoft is Making 'Significant Investments' in Training Its Own AI Models (slashdot.org)
30 days ago Microsoft AI

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia (www.theinformation.com)
30 days ago Alibaba AI Nvidia

AI-generated Medical Data Can Sidestep Usual Ethics Review, Universities Say (slashdot.org)
30 days ago AI

Some 20-somethings flocking to SF to build trillion-dollar AI startups say no to booze, sleep, and fun as they strive to be, or appear to be, the most obsessed (www.wsj.com)
30 days ago Startup AI

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