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http://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-guthrie-and-ranking-member-pallone-applaud-ftc-decision-investigate
Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) issued the following statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to launch an...
FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others
The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.
The End Of Checkout? AI Agents Could Soon Be Buying Everything For You
The way people shop, pay and get paid is changing. Mastercard is moving quickly to avoid the risk of being left behind.
The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots
The FTC is investigating companies who offer chatbots and their possible harms to children.
Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments
Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of “AI psychosis.” Financial experts are increasingly concerned.
AMD says MI450 GPUs will outperform every Nvidia product including Rubin Ultra
The launch is being compared to AMD’s 2021 “Milan moment”
FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others
The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.
Ted Cruz bill would let Big Tech go wild with AI experiments for 10 years
Ted Cruz won’t give up fight to block states from regulating AI.
Artificial Intelligence Stocks Rally as Nvidia, TSMC Gain on Oracle Growth Forecast
Oracle’s Cloud Bet Sends AI Suppliers Soaring; Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC Shine
Levita Magnetics’ MARS platform uses AI-guided autonomous camera in first surgery
By reducing manual camera control, the AI-guided MARS platform aims to provide surgeons with a clearer, uninterrupted field of vision.
OpenAI, Meta, Google face probe into chatbot safety
The FTC wants to understand AI makers’ guardrails, monetization and disclosures.
FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from seven companies including Alphabet , Meta and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how these firms...
What if the $3trn AI investment boom goes wrong?
Even if the technology achieves its potential, plenty of people will lose their shirts
The rise of LLMs in robotic surgery
With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming an omnipresent focus of innovation in the healthcare sector, it should come as no surprise that large language models’ (LLMs) application in robotic surgery is...
FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta and others
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from several companies including Alphabet , Meta Platforms and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how these...
Visual Representation Alignment for Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) trained with visual instruction tuning have achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, yet they remain limited in vision-centric tasks such as…
Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption
A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is...
Microsoft, OpenAI push for independence
OpenAI and Microsoft appear to be moving in distinct directions and with new partners.
Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister
Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.
AI’s $344 Billion ‘Language Model’ Bet Looks Fragile
Fortunes are riding on one AI technique, even as cracks start to show.
Tricks from OpenAI gpt-oss YOU 🫵 can use with transformers
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Penguin Ai Secures $29.7M in Venture Funding to Tackle the $1 Trillion Administrative Burden in the Healthcare Industry
/PRNewswire/ — Penguin Ai, a healthcare artificial intelligence company that solves administrative burdens, announced today that it has secured $29.7 million…
Exclusive: A first-time CEO launches startup to bring AI into the lab
Michelle Lee’s startup Medra raises $11M to build AI-powered lab robots, attracting Genentech and others as customers. The Stanford PhD aims to automate 70% of lab instruments with flexible robotic...
Oracle Is Suddenly the Stock Market’s AI Winner
And Larry Ellison is now wealthier than Elon Musk.
Oracle’s sudden AI stardom is giving 1999 energy
Oracle’s sudden AI stardom is giving 1999 energy
China’s Open-Source Models Are Testing US AI Dominance
China’s recent AI successes like DeepSeek might spell trouble for U.S. tech supremacy. Former DIA Director David Shedd comments.
Navy asks Lockheed Martin for artificial intelligence (AI) to double the range of LRASM anti-ship missile
LRASM C-3 can exchange information with military satellites, use imaging infrared and RF seekers for survivability and target identification.
Alibaba leads US$60 million investment in AI video generation start-up AIsphere
AIsphere’s PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year.
A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law
If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail...
Perplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation
The AI-powered search startup’s valuation jumped from $18 billion two months earlier.
Robotics Startup Physical Intelligence in Talks to Raise at $5 Billion Valuation
Physical Intelligence, a startup developing large artificial intelligence models to power robots, is in talks with investors to raise additional venture capital at a valuation of about $5 billion, according...
Perplexity finalizes $20 billion valuation round, the Information reports
AI startup Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge of...
Exclusive: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate, sources say
The two-year-old startup has been in discussions with investors for a Series C round.
Lawmakers weigh AI regulation as White House tries to propel industry forward
The Trump administration is trying to persuade lawmakers against implementing regulations on artificial intelligence as it tries to supercharge its development
That new Claude feature ‘may put your data at risk,’ Anthropic admits
Claude AI can now create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and other files. But Anthropic warns that hackers can also use that feature to snag your sensitive data.
Nebius, Microsoft ink agreement for AI infra
The deal between Microsoft and Nebius has been signed for a five year term and is worth $17.4 billion over the period.
California, New York could become first states to enact laws aiming to prevent catastrophic AI harm
California and New York could become the first states to establish rules aiming to prevent the most advanced, large-scale artificial intelligence models — known as frontier AI models — from...
XPeng Unveils Ambitious AI Ecosystem Beyond Cars
Automaker XPeng has laid out an AI-focused manifesto at Europe’s biggest car show for a number of years, IAA Mobility in Munich, Germany.
LIGO could observe intermediate-mass black holes using artificial intelligence
Machine learning system reduces noise in interferometer mirrors
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same...