Famous NFT proponent Reese Witherspoon—better known for other work—has some advice for people worried about the inevitable and crushing intrusion of technology into their lives of late, telling anyone nervous about artificial intelligence’s ongoing effects on humanity that they should, in essence, suck it up, Buttercup. “It’s here to stay, so just get used to …
Processors that crunch through supercomputing tasks in the blink of an eye. Batteries that recharge in a flash. Accelerated drug discovery, encryption and decryption, and machine learning. These are just a few of the possibilities that may be enabled by quantum computing, which harnesses the laws of physics to perform calculations much faster than even …
Hardware is emerging as a key AI growth area. For Big Tech companies with the money and talent to do so, developing in-house chips helps reduce dependence on outside designers such as Nvidia and Intel while also allowing firms to tailor their hardware specifically to their own AI models, boosting performance and saving on energy …
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup could get a major boost as xAI races to catch rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in the highly competitive space. Investors close to the Tesla and SpaceX CEO are in talks to help xAI raise $3 billion in a funding round that could value it at $18 billion, sources told the …
Is Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the world leader in generative artificial intelligence, trying to poach staff away from Tesla’s Autopilot team? Elon Musk certainly wants people to think so. After news emerged on Wednesday that Tesla’s Ethan Knight became the carmaker’s fourth engineer to join to Musk’s latest startup, xAI, the centibillionaire claimed his employee was planning to defect …
Artificial intelligence will no doubt change much about our world in the long run. But for now, we may be living through an AI bubble. Those seeking evidence of this might cite news of Cognition Labs seeking a $2 billion valuation, as reported by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday. Founded in November, Cognition Labs …
When Amazon announced Wednesday that it had showered the hot AI startup Anthropic with an additional $2.75 billion to complete the $4 billion investment it had announced last fall, the company positioned the news as a royal win. Amazon’s AWS, the king of cloud computing (with nearly a third of global market share), was deepening …
Ever since OpenAI released its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022, investors have flocked to companies with links to AI to try to profit from the world-changing technology. The hype has been so extreme that it sparked a debate on Wall Street over whether investors are justified in their AI enthusiasm—or if they’re getting …
In December 2022, someone was looking for Emad Mostaque. The founder and CEO of Stability AI, one of the hottest startups in the nascent generative AI field, could not be found. Even Mostaque’s wife, Zehra Qureshi, was not sure. She texted an employee, worried about Mostaque and noting that he’d left home in his pajamas. …
Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the China Development Forum in Beijing on Sunday. PEDRO PARDOPEDRO PARDO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said artificial intelligence is an essential tool for helping businesses reduce their carbon footprint, as he joined a climate change dialog Sunday at the China Development Forum. Cook took part in a …