Imagine working in the OpenAI department responsible for dealing with politicians and regulators right now—things must be so intense you could almost be working for Elon Musk . Every politician worth their salt, in countries around the world, is jumping into the AI safety fray. Case in point: On…
Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers on Monday filed for an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market, a signal of optimism about the IPO market. A string of companies have postponed plans to go public in recent weeks due to choppy market conditions. DayOne, which mainly operates data ...
Nvidia is reconsidering the structure of an initiative it announced earlier this summer, the AI Compute Partnership, to provide credit support to AI cloud providers that rent out Nvidia chips, in exchange for a cut of those rental revenues, The Information reported Monday . People involved in the…
Last week, OpenAI scrapped the model it had slated to release as GPT-6.1 Astra due to test results showing that it was deceptive and otherwise misaligned. “I think it’s about time,” said Stuart Russell, the computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-authored the…
Reflection AI, a 2-year old Nvidia-backed startup, announced its first open-weight model, adding to a collection of U.S. competitors aiming to catch up to the performance of similarly free models from China. In its announcement Monday, Reflection said it is still evaluating and testing the ...
OpenAI said Monday that it will test a new visual ad format that uses images to show how products and services could fit into people’s lives. The ads will first appear while users generate images in ChatGPT, labeled and kept separate from the image being created. Testing begins later this month ...
Meta Platforms and Microsoft , two of Anthropic ’s biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees’ use of Claude, a challenge for the AI firm’s efforts to sustain its explosive growth. Microsoft executives earlier this year projected that the company was on track to spend at least…
OpenAI wrote to the New York City Council last week recommending that the city put safeguards in place to prevent against the risks of advanced AI, City Council speaker Julie Menin said during a press briefing on Monday. In the letter, shared with The Information, OpenAI head of U.S. & ...
U.S. data center operators’ reliance on Chinese manufacturers for batteries, cooling systems, optical transceivers and other equipment has come under scrutiny over national security concerns. But Chinese equipment makers have an edge over their American counterparts, which have been criticised for…
The idea that Anthropic , OpenAI and other AI companies could “embed” researchers from outside safety groups into their operations has been all the rage in recent weeks. But the devil is in the details. AI safety researchers worry that embedded evaluators won’t have the access they need to provide…