Billy Perrigo / Time:
An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future — In May 2023, three of the most important CEOs in artificial intelligence walked through the iconic black front door of No. 10 Downing Street …
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Friday, January 17, 2025
An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future (Billy Perrigo/Time)
Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users (New York Times)
New York Times:
Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users — Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube are getting ready behind the scenes to welcome TikTok users, should the Chinese-owned app be banned from the United States.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
TSMC says it will raise 2025 capital spending to $38B-$40B, an over 30% increase after three years of stagnation (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
TSMC says it will raise 2025 capital spending to $38B-$40B, an over 30% increase after three years of stagnation — World's biggest chipmaker faces less efficient operations in US and Japan but gets boost from AI demand — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has cut …
Canalys: China smartphone shipments rose 4% YoY to 285M units in 2024, with Vivo up 11% to a 17% market share, Huawei up 37% to 16%, and Apple down 17% to 15% (William Langley/Financial Times)
William Langley / Financial Times:
Canalys: China smartphone shipments rose 4% YoY to 285M units in 2024, with Vivo up 11% to a 17% market share, Huawei up 37% to 16%, and Apple down 17% to 15% — US tech giant faces competition on mainland as it struggles to introduce AI features on its flagship product
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
A profile of Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the chess-obsessed intelligence chief who oversees UAE's $1.5T sovereign wealth and wants to make UAE an AI superpower (Bradley Hope/Wired)
Bradley Hope / Wired:
A profile of Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the chess-obsessed intelligence chief who oversees UAE's $1.5T sovereign wealth and wants to make UAE an AI superpower — Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE's chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth.
Berlin-based Nelly, whose SaaS lets medical practices digitally onboard new patients, accept payments, and more, raised a €50M Series B led by Cathay Innovation (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Berlin-based Nelly, whose SaaS lets medical practices digitally onboard new patients, accept payments, and more, raised a €50M Series B led by Cathay Innovation — Nelly wants to become the biggest fintech startup in the healthcare industry. The Berlin-based startup is already working …
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Belgium-based Vertical Compute, a memory chip firm spun out of European VC firm Imec.xpand, raised a €20M seed led by Imec.xpand (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Belgium-based Vertical Compute, a memory chip firm spun out of European VC firm Imec.xpand, raised a €20M seed led by Imec.xpand — Europe's Imec.xpand is spinning out memory chip firm Vertical Compute in a seed investment round worth $20.5 million. — Founded by CEO Sylvain Dubois …
The UK CMA opens a probe to assess Google's position in search and search ads business and how it impacts consumers, advertisers, publishers, and its rivals (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The UK CMA opens a probe to assess Google's position in search and search ads business and how it impacts consumers, advertisers, publishers, and its rivals — Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday said that it's opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google's search and search advertising services.
Monday, January 13, 2025
The US' chip export rules enter a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump administration to consider input, potentially modify, and enforce the rules (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
The US' chip export rules enter a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump administration to consider input, potentially modify, and enforce the rules — The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.
The Biden admin unveils new chip export rules, giving 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
The Biden admin unveils new chip export rules, giving 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China — US semiconductor industry warns move will aid its competitors — The US is imposing expansive export controls on chips used …
Sunday, January 12, 2025
A case study of the amount and kinds of ads in 12 shows on the ad-supported tiers of Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
Jon Keegan / Sherwood News:
A case study of the amount and kinds of ads in 12 shows on the ad-supported tiers of Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu — We watched 12 shows on six platforms to find out how much of your life you give up to save a few bucks each month. — It's getting harder to avoid ads on streaming video.
A look at Apple's plans for 2025, a year likely to be seen as a stepping stone toward more revolutionary products, rather than one of remarkable innovation (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's plans for 2025, a year likely to be seen as a stepping stone toward more revolutionary products, rather than one of remarkable innovation — Apple plans a loaded 2025, with plans for an overhauled iPhone line, new AI features, a smart home push and updates to products it hasn't refreshed in a while.
Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content moderation changes, fearing a surge in harmful content and misinformation on its platforms (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content moderation changes, fearing a surge in harmful content and misinformation on its platforms — Facebook owner's move to loosen policing of online content has raised fears over a surge in misinformation
As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart AI, far fewer voices are trying to envision and articulate what a world awash in AI might actually look like (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart AI, far fewer voices are trying to envision and articulate what a world awash in AI might actually look like — What to make of the statements of the AI labs? — Recently, something shifted in the AI industry.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of "culturally neutered" companies that have sought to distance themselves from "masculine energy" (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy” — - Rogan interview is latest in sign of shift toward Trump — CEO says Biden staffers would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ about Covid
An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future (Billy Perrigo/Time)
Billy Perrigo / Time : An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabili...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...