penAI on Friday confirmed that it has disbanded a team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart artificial intelligence. OpenAI weeks ago began dissolving the so-called “superalignment” group, integrating members into other projects and research, according to the San Francisco-based firm. Company co-founder Ilya Sutskever and team co-leader Jan Leike announced their departures from …
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: A fresh Big Tech boomlet has arrived. Shareholders aren’t just seeing their stock prices swell, they are getting paid too. The dividend, its importance demoted over the past couple of decades by the …
The message from Big Tech executives is clear: Buckle up, we’re going to spend a lot more money on artificial intelligence. Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta (META) have all revealed aggressive new commitments to advancing the technology in the first quarter earnings season. Such announcements have drawn mixed reactions from investors. …
Earlier this year, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift were shared repeatedly X. The pictures were almost certainly created with generative-AI tools, demonstrating the ease with which the technology can be put to nefarious ends. This case mirrors many other apparently similar examples, including fake images depicting the arrest of former President Donald Trump, AI-generated …
Tech companies continue their dominance in the S&P 500 (^GSPC) as investors patiently await upcoming earnings to take stock of the broader market moving forward. Goldman Sachs Senior Equity Research Analyst Eric Sheridan gave out his top tech picks to watch, highlighting Amazon (AMZN) as a bright spot for investors to keep an eye on. …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and car tech are predicted to be the key topics at the world’s largest consumer electronics show, which begins in Las Vegas on Monday. CES draws around 100,000 attendees to see some of the world’s biggest tech firms – including Sony, Google, Samsung and others – unveil new gadgets and discuss key …