… As software companies and AI labs continue to train increasingly powerful AI models, they have begun announcing ambitious plans to build custom chips that serve their own specific AI needs. …
… We have more details here. We’ll likely hear Google touch on these features at I/O again, but these were unveiled early to make room for more new software announcements during the keynote. You can usually count on a surprise announcement or an AI demo that goes completely off the rails. …
… That single project, according to its permit, could emit more than 11.5 million tons of greenhouse gases each year—more than the yearly emissions of the entire country of Jamaica. “Microsoft takes a portfolio approach to energy, leveraging a range of solutions to meet reliability needs while contin… …
Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism, is leaving the company, WIRED has confirmed. …
… Similar to other announcements from Google I/O surrounding Google Search, many of the new changes to Flow are part of the company’s larger attempt to make AI agents, essentially automated software taskmasters, and vibe coding, building bespoke features with natural language prompts to AI, more main… …
… If Victor proves a success, however, Kahn believes the Army could eventually hire a big AI company to advance the system’s capabilities. “The big labs are obviously going to have a comparative advantage” in terms of building and deploying cutting-edge AI, she says. …
… The funding generated by that tax would go to what Steyer has called the Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund, with some of that money being earmarked for jobs building housing, health care, and modernizing California’s energy infrastructure. “The aim of the initiative will be to strengthen the found… …
… That was OpenAI’s generator that let you deepfake yourself but was eventually killed by the company. Google’s approach is building out a far more realistic video generator that can incorporate real video and extrapolate all manner of AI-powered weirdness on top of that. …
… We're not waiting for a carbon-free grid—we're building the path to one." Other tech companies are publicly embracing new gas build-outs. …
… Beyond that, there have always been crowds of tinkerers and makers looking to build tech, whether it’s to turn vapes into synthesizers or push back against ICE. “The big problem in hardware is that it's very gatekept and that very few people can do it,” Beek says. “I really hope that my tool can he… …