Elon Musk's xAI emerges as serious OpenAI rival with $6 billion funding round, supercomputer plans
The supercomputer will be powered by 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
Google search AI Overviews uses terrible information sourcing to give you terrible answers
Google downplays the bad answers, saying they "aren't representative of most people's experiences"
AI companies sign new voluntary commitments pledging AI safety
"The AI world is safe, please trust us with your future"
Nvidia reports record revenue amid global AI boom, up 262% year-over-year
Team Green expects the good times to continue
Snapdragon X Windows PCs should run over 1,000 games at playable framerates, super resolution improves performance
Elden Ring, Counter-Strike 2, The Sims 4, Final Fantasy XIV, and others run smoothly through Arm-to-x86 translation layer
Former Google CEO predicts nuclear-powered AI systems on military bases surrounded by machine guns
Eric Schmidt also warned of the dangers posed by a rogue AI
Nvidia could be working on "AI PC" chips to compete with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm next year
Nvidia and Dell hinted at AI PC plans for 2025
Why everyone wants to be a chief AI officer or "CAIO" – this is what it takes
US federal agencies now must have a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
From the WTF dept: Cooler Master's "AI" thermal paste comes in six different colors
What does AI thermal paste even mean?
Dell showcases hybrid AI approach, merging cloud and on-premises solutions
Forward-looking: Getting companies interested in deploying generative AI applications is no longer a challenge for tech suppliers. Figuring out how to best use the technology, however, is still difficult for many of these business customers. One new technique that Dell discussed at its Dell Tech World event in Las Vegas is the concept of hybrid AI, where some of the work happens in the cloud, but some is done on premises within an organization's data centers.
Amazon looks set to launch a paid-for, generative AI-powered Alexa this year
$20 per month for AI-supercharged Alexa?
HP introduces Omni and Elite PCs, retires Pavilion, Spectre, Envy, and Dragonfly brands
New laptop models for the AI PC era
Microsoft Edge will use AI to translate and dub YouTube and other videos in real time
The tool will initially support English and Spanish translations of YouTube, LinkedIn, and Coursera videos
Microsoft Recall AI will log everything you do on Windows
It will all be processed and stored on-device, thankfully
Microsoft Copilot AI will offer tips in PC and Xbox games like Minecraft
AI-based game assistant can react to in-game events in real time
Council of Europe's international AI treaty is the first of its kind
A binding legal framework covering the entire lifecycle of AI systems
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton says universal basic income needed in face of AI-related job losses
Hinton repeated concerns about an AI-induced extinction-level event
Why is Apple making a data center chip?
"ACDC" (Apple Chips in Data Center) would be the clear winner in 2024's chip naming competition
Editor's take: Of course, Apple is designing its own AI chips for its data centers. This will give them an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge AI system that its competitors will not be able to match anytime soon.
New AI headphone prototype filters out noise, focuses on voices
They give you selective hearing superpowers
Slack has been siphoning user data to train AI models without asking permission
Smarter collaboration, but at what cost?
Six ways to eliminate the unhelpful "AI Overviews" in Google search results
"Instead of results, give me an AI summary that plagiarizes articles," said nobody ever
Sony doesn't want companies to use its music to train generative AI algorithms
One of the largest record labels is warning hundreds of companies over data scraping
Google's Trillium TPU achieves unprecedented performance increase for AI workloads
Google keeps building its "AI Hypercomputer" platform with custom hardware accelerators
Microsoft asks staff in China to relocate amid escalating Washington-Beijing tech tensions
Washington is expected to introduce more restrictions on China soon