Tag: AI

GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview for…

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba’s T-Head division has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator focused on inference — serving models rather than training…

xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 advocacy organisations, led by Public Citizen and Color of Change, have sent an open…

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in Old…

Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell rolled out AI voice assistants to hundreds of drive‑thrus but has encountered glitches and deliberate…

Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s trial of AI-powered drive-thru order takers, rolled out to over 500 US locations, has stumbled…

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, shot and killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then…

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator focused on inference as Beijing pressures domestic firms to reduce dependence…

Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s experiment with AI-powered drive-thru order-takers, rolled out to more than 500 US locations, has hit…

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary On 5 August a 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein‑Erik Soelberg, and his 83‑year‑old mother were found dead in…