… By investing in domestic capabilities, the UK hopes to capture a larger portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the AI sector, while minimizing a dependence on foreign technology that may become a liability in future negotiations with trading partners. “We have been too gullible… …
… Other funding came from Lux Capital, Google Ventures, and Catalio, among others. …
… Google rolled out a new Android feature this week aimed at the wave of AI-powered impersonation scams that help fraudsters spoof a familiar number and clone a person’s voice. …
… Despite a nearly 50 percent increase in overall emissions over the past five years Google claimed in its sustainability report last year that it had reduced its data center emissions by 12 percent. …
… OpenAI’s cofounders have repeatedly said, in emails and testimonies, that they have benefited from the nonprofit structure and mission. They argued it gave OpenAI “moral high ground,” which would prove strategically valuable in its quest to overtake Google DeepMind. …
In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives for DeepMind employees. “Fundamentally, the push for unionization is about holding Go… …
… Ineffable Intelligence has so far raised $1.1 billion in seed funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion—an enormous sum by European AI standards. Silver has also recruited top AI researchers from Google DeepMind and other frontier labs to join his endeavor. …
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman are among the signatories on a public letter calling for laws requiring companies that sell synthetic DNA and RNA to screen customers and orders to prevent the misuse of genetic mate… …
… Google’s unchecked progress on AI development had sparked concerns for both OpenAI cofounders, and they wanted to create a competing lab with a greater focus on safety. “My perspective is OpenAI exists because Larry Page called me a speciesist for being pro-humanity,” Musk said, referring to the Go… …
… Over 5,000 peers nationwide at Microsoft, Google, and different Meta offices employed by other catering companies have already unionized. But Lavish has allegedly campaigned against the workers through meetings, flyers, texts, and emails, according to Unite Here organizing director Sarah Jacobson. …