Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards — Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.
Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy — Data-center company sees potential in what has been described as one of Sam Bankman-Fried's ‘most reckless investments’
A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN — Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data center leasing deals it has signed?
Yandex says a drone strike shut down a third data center, disrupting 80+ services like Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; users report banking and taxi app outages — A Ukrainian drone strike targeted a major Yandex data center in the Russian city of Vladimir early Sunday morning, Oct. 11 …
A look at Apple's smart home strategy, centered on a HomeView display hub, with a new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and second-party accessories from LG and Schneider — Fresh details on Apple's HomeView, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, including release dates, colors, chips and features.
PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute — Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup …
How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal — Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic — Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys; automation push reaches ‘peak complexity’
Nvidia commits $1B over five years to build out the US' “capacity for super intelligence research” in fields including quantum computing, healthcare, and energy — Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price — Facing pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price, the streamer is prepping for a round of layoffs in the near future, per sources.
ICANN receives 1,615 TLD applications from 481 applicants; Meta, OpenAI, and eight others applied for .agent, seven companies applied for .agi, and six for .asi — ICANN's latest top-level domain applications are out, and they are all about AI. … For the first time in years …
Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk”, saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework — ChatGPT's teen-focused experience 'doesn't send alerts to parents when it should,' according to an assessment.
The UK's Ofcom opens an OSA probe into Meta over Instagram Instants, launched in May; Meta says it “briefed Ofcom about this feature on a number of occasions” — Britain's communications regulator said on Tuesday it has opened an investigation into whether Meta Platforms (META.O) …
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal : A look at Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, an unusual, opaque five-member trust whose truste...
