CoreWeave Acquires Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific for $9 Billion to Fuel AI Data Center Expansion
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - AI cloud provider CoreWeave acquires crypto-miner Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal, securing over 2.3 GW of power for its AI data center expansion.The post CoreWeave Acquires Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific for $9 Billion to Fuel AI Data Center Expan…
Back to Top / Monday, July 7, 2025, 9:20 am / permalink 9512 / 9 stories in 7 months
No Opt-Out, No Traffic: Publishers File EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google’s AI Overviews
Chaitanya Kohli / medianama - The publishers' alliance alleged in the antitrust complaint that they have no option to opt out of the AI Overviews in Google Search without losing the ability to appear in search results.The post No Opt-Out, No Traffic: Publishers File EU Antitrust Compl…
Back to Top / Monday, July 7, 2025, 6:20 am / permalink 9503 / 3 stories in 7 months
Elon Musk’s “Upgraded” AI Is Spewing Antisemitic Propaganda
Luc Olinga / gizmodo - Just hours after Elon Musk boasted of a major upgrade, his AI chatbot Grok went on a rampage, pushing hateful tropes, inventing fake news, and suffering a bizarre identity crisis.
Back to Top / Sunday, July 6, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 9491 / 3 stories in 8 months
US reportedly plans to curb sales of AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand to prevent smuggling to China
tomshardware - The U.S. government is drafting export rules to require licenses for shipping Nvidia’s advanced AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to block possible re-exports to China.
Back to Top / Saturday, July 5, 2025, 9:20 am / permalink 9451 / 3 stories in 8 months
EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players
Thomas Claburn / theregister - Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations' French AI business Mistral on Thursday announced an initiative called “AI for Citizens,” which it says offers a way to work with governments and public institu…
Back to Top / Friday, July 4, 2025, 2:20 am / permalink 9393 / 6 stories in 8 months
Ilya Sutskever Takes Over as CEO of Safe Superintelligence After Meta Poached Co-Founder Daniel Gross
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Ilya Sutskever is the new CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI) after Meta hired away co-founder Daniel Gross, escalating the fierce AI talent war.The post Ilya Sutskever Takes Over as CEO of Safe Superintelligence After Meta Poached Co-Founder Daniel Gross…
Back to Top / Thursday, July 3, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 9368 / 4 stories in 8 months
Study Finds AI in Customer Service Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - New research and high-profile failures reveal AI in customer service often creates more work and damages trust, challenging Big Tech's automation push.The post Study Finds AI in Customer Service Creates More Problems Than It Solves appeared first on WinBu…
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Meta tests chatbots with proactive messaging to boost retention
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Meta is reportedly testing proactive features for its AI chatbots that let them send messages to users without being prompted, according to Business Insider.The article Meta tests chatbots with proactive messaging to boost retention appeared first on THE …
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Major tech companies call for postponement of AI Act rules
ASML, SAP, and Mistral have pressed EU regulators to delay the implementation of the new AI Act, arguing that a sudden rollout could stifle innovation and unsettle the market. Their plea comes amid mounting concerns about the regulatory framework’s potential to disrupt a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Back to Top / Thursday, July 3, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 9321 / 3 stories in 8 months
Racist videos made with AI are going viral on TikTok
Emma Roth / theverge - Racist videos that appear to be created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3 have raked in millions of views across TikTok, according to findings from the nonprofit media watchdog Media Matters. The AI-generated videos uncovered by the organizatio…
Back to Top / Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 6:20 pm / permalink 9304 / 4 stories in 8 months
Cloudflare Rolls Out Permission-Based Web Scraping For AI Models
Rohit Singh / medianama - Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has placed the control with content creators and publishers for content that is scraped by AI models.The post Cloudflare Rolls Out Permission-Based Web Scraping For AI Models appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
Back to Top / Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 9238 / 3 stories in 8 months
X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots
Jay Peters / theverge - X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be able to submit a Community Note, but they will only actually be shown on a post “if found…
Back to Top / Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 9227 / 9 stories in 8 months
Google promotes ‘AI Mode’ on home page 'Doodle'
cnbc - The company has been using its most valuable real estate to push its AI chatbot.
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Zango AI secures $4.8M to upgrade financial compliance solutions
Fintech startup Zango AI has locked in $4.8 million in fresh funding to transform financial regulatory compliance with its agentic AI technology. The capital injection is set to accelerate product development, reinforcing Zango’s mission to simplify the complex landscape of financial oversight with cutting‐edge, AI-driven tools.
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Apple weighs abandoning its own AI for Siri as it tests models from OpenAI and Anthropic
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Apple is considering whether the Siri voice assistant should use AI models from Anthropic or OpenAI in future. This would mean a far-reaching change of course and an indirect rejection of its own AI efforts.The article Apple weighs abandoning its own AI f…
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Zuckerberg Announces Meta Superintelligence Labs with Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as Lead
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta launches Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by poached talent from rivals like OpenAI, after a chaotic 'buy or poach' strategy and the fallout from its Scale AI deal.The post Zuckerberg Announces Meta Superintelligence Labs with Former Scale AI C…
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Senate votes against curbing state-level AI regulation
Sarah Fielding / engadget - Yesterday, the senate was poised to restrict states' power to regulate AI. Now, the measure is dead in the water, with the Senate voting 99-1 to remove the provision. Are you also having a bit of whiplash? Here's what you need to know about the amendments…
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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default
cnbc - Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be given the option to allow — or block — AI crawlers.
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Hollywood Confronts AI Copyright Chaos in Washington, Courts
Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - Technology firms say using copyrighted materials to train AI models is key to America’s success, while creatives want their work protected.
Back to Top / Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 9185 / 4 stories in 8 months
11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry
Anna Washenko / engadget - 11 Bit Studios has drawn the ire of players for the undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in its recent release, The Alters. The new project from the team behind Frostpunk and This War of Mine is a narratively and thematically interesting take on a s…
Back to Top / Monday, June 30, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 9174 / 4 stories in 8 months