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The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (www.wired.com)
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Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI

San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Real Estate AI San Francisco

Will AI Bring 'the End of Computer Programming As We Know It'? (developers.slashdot.org)
2 days ago AI programming

Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago AI Layoffs

AI's Productivity Boost? Just 16 Minutes Per Week, Claims Study (it.slashdot.org)
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A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago AI Layoffs

TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2 days ago AI

Meta Plans Sweeping Layoffs As AI Costs Mount (tech.slashdot.org)
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An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
2 days ago Interview AI Nvidia

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now playing out in Iran (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago AI Iran Pentagon

A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (www.ama-assn.org)
3 days ago AI

Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (www.wired.com)
3 days ago AI chatbot

A US government website shows the Commerce Department withdrew a planned rule tightening AI chip exports; a draft was sent to agencies for feedback in February (www.reuters.com)
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Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago AI Layoffs

Digg announces a “hard reset” and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (www.theverge.com)
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Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
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Don't Get Used To Cheap AI (news.slashdot.org)
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Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns (tech.slashdot.org)
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Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (www.theinformation.com)
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AWS plans to deploy Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine chip for AI inference functions; AWS will still offer slower, cheaper computing using its Trainium processors (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago AI

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI

‘Happy shooting!' AI chatbots eager to help plan mass violence – report (www.rt.com)
3 days ago AI chatbot

We Asked AI For An Opinion Piece On ScoMo Forcing A By-Election On Voters. Computer Says No. (newmatilda.com)
4 days ago AI

Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” and strengthens that of “working-class, often male voters” (www.huffpost.com)
4 days ago AI Working Class

Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (www.nytimes.com)
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Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (www.axios.com)
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Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO (www.geekwire.com)
4 days ago AI

AI-generated Slopoly malware used in Interlock ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago AI

Perplexity's 'Personal Computer' Lets AI Agents Access Your Local Files (slashdot.org)
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