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One August morning, Kaarage woke up and took the train from the Japanese countryside into the city. She went to a restaurant and enjoyed a lunch of vegetables and soup, as well as an iced coffee. Afterward, she studied a musical score on her iPad, then went home to relax.
Kaarage is not a person: Sheâs an internet-beloved Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casioâyes, Casioâwho shares a charming, bucolic life with her owner in rural Japan, and I admit that Iâve lately come to enjoy following their peacef
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Weâre moving off the (unresolved) AI bubble debate to a much more fundamental question about AI. That is whether decisions about an enormously costly technology, which threatens to put many people out of work, should be left to tech leaders or discussed more broadly. It turns out Republicans may have the best handle on this issue, most obviously Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Heâs long been vocal about the threat AI... Read more âș
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Microsoft will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, and Nvidia will invest $10 billion in the startup, the three companies announced on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Anthropic will spend at least $30 billion to rent servers from Microsoftâs Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips over an unspecified period, and ... Read more âș
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Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morningâs news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAIâs board of directors following a congressional committeeâs release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had been on the board of the ChatGPT-maker for two years. His departure follows his decision to step back from public commitments in... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Googleâs recent progress in artificial intelligence could âcreate some temporary economic headwinds for our company,â though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead. After OpenAI researchers heard that Google had created a new AI that appears to have leapfrogged OpenAIâs in the way it was developed, Altman said in the memo that âwe know we have some work to do but... Read more âș
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The White House is working on an executive order that will direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass their own laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Information. The order, which is still in the drafting phase, could change. The timeline for when it will be formally announced is also unclear. The move is part of a long-standing effort this year... Read more âș
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For 15 years, Goldman Sachsâ private tech conference in Las Vegas has been the event for taking the pulse of startup dealmaking. Years ago, it was possible to run into founders such as Uberâs Travis Kalanick and Instagramâs Kevin Systrom raising money for their then-small startups. The conference is much bigger now (which makes some investors grumble), but it remains a nexus for investors who want to throw money at... Read more âș
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Thinking Machines Lab, the company co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5 billion in the startupâs next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more âș
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