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The meteoric rise of Chinese startup DeepSeek has rattled Silicon Valley to its core. The company demonstrated that it’s possible to create top-tier AI at a tiny fraction of the…
If you’ve felt a vibe shift, you’re not alone: there’s a massive revolution afoot, led by “America-hating communists.” At least, that’s according to Marc Andreessen, the cofounder of the powerful…
Free Agents Microsoft is releasing a suite of autonomous AI models — or “agents” — that can serve as virtual employees for its customers. Not only that, the company is…
No Accountability What tech companies have claimed so far about the energy costs of building enormous AI models may have been incredibly misleading. Or, depending on your perspective, they lied to…
Pitch Dreck While projecting an image of sustainability, Microsoft has secretly been selling bespoke AI services to fossil fuel giants and claiming it can help them make even more money…
Prop. 22 promised improved pay and benefits for California gig workers. But when companies fail to deliver, the state isn’t doing much to help push backCalifornia Companies Wrote Their Own…
With Great Power… California is on the verge of passing a bill that would enforce sweeping regulations in the AI industry, after it was approved in the state’s Assembly Appropriations…
Move Fast and Steal Things Worried your AI startup might be illegally swallowing up boatloads of copyright-protected content? According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, you can worry about that…
Data Crash AI companies typically build their AI models on lots of publicly available content, from YouTube videos to newspaper articles. But many of these content hosts have now started…
Flash in the Pan When OpenAI first released ChatGPT to the public back in late 2022, many people in business were gripped with an intense case of FOMO and started…