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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that…
Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
My evidence that we're onto something is we've seen a handful of content deals, and the company that has gotten the best deal by far is Reddit. We know from their public filings that last year they got close to $140 million a year from Google and OpenAI.Hmm.If you compare…
Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here
Michael Calore: Yeah. That's a whole other topic.Kylie Robison: Yes, it is. Will, what do you recommend?Will Knight: I'm going to recommend what I think is a genuinely useful home robot. I have a cat, Leono. He's very nice but will bring in various animals, dead or alive, into our…
How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge Networks sells what amounts to a commercialized “Great Firewall” to at least four countries, including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. The groundbreaking…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors and publishers whose books were used to train an early version of…
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
A renewed focus on robots would suggest that OpenAI believes reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that exceeds human intelligence—may require developing algorithms that are capable of interacting with the physical world.OpenAI did notable robotics research in its early years, including developing an algorithm capable of solving a Rubik's cube using…
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world…
Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon
Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical billing for dentists. He was placed on the “machine” team.“I'm gonna be honest and say I'm extremely relieved to be on the machine team,” Chong says.At the hackathon, Chong was…
The Unexpected Winners of Trump’s Trade War
But Shein and Temu didn’t stop marketing altogether. Instead, both companies chose to shift their ad budgets abroad to regions where the geopolitical risks were perceived to be lower and growth opportunities more abundant. Shein spent 22 percent of its overall advertising spend in the US market during the second…
The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight
Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide more competitive interest rates in an effort to keep customer deposits.“To call this a trillion-dollar fight would be an understatement: This is highly fraught territory that banks have jealously guarded,”…
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