Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber India has started offering short “digital tasks” to rideshare and delivery drivers via the app…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times that AI is likely to concentrate wealth…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions to block its AI services from companies majority-owned by entities in countries it considers adversaries —…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, to help students with opposing…
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All Summary Steven Levy profiles Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent and polarising figure in the AI‑safety scene, who argues that advanced artificial intelligence…
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions Summary A Spanish non-profit, La Caixa Foundation, is using an AI system made from three algorithms to…
Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration Summary The Jupiter supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Center was officially inaugurated with its GPU-based Booster module surpassing the exascale threshold of…
Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking Summary The US Army has awarded San Francisco startup TurbineOne a five-year contract worth up to $98.9m to scale its…
Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement Summary Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has filed a federal lawsuit in California accusing the AI image generator Midjourney of using WBD movies…
UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost Summary A UK government pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot (Oct–Dec 2024) found that, despite high user satisfaction for simple…
