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Apple shakeup in AI: Giannandrea to retire. Amar Subramanya new AI chief.
Read more: Apple shakeup in AI: Giannandrea to retire. Amar Subramanya new AI chief.As the AI arms race intensifies, Apple has made a switch at the top. Even though Apple’s rollout of AI Siri has been a disaster, the company still faces 3 copyright lawsuits: Hendrix, Alexander, and Martinez-Conde. Judge Gonzalez Rogers presides.
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US faces stiff competition from China in AI — and high tech
Read more: US faces stiff competition from China in AI — and high techI’m on record agreeing with those who warn it’s imperative that the United States maintain its lead in AI development ahead of China. I agree with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s assessment that China is closing fast on the United States: It’s very easy to get mired in the copyright lawsuits against AI companies to lose…
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Elon Musk AI company buys 114 acres near Memphis to build Colossus 2 data center
Read more: Elon Musk AI company buys 114 acres near Memphis to build Colossus 2 data centerThe Wall Street Journal reports that Elon Musk’s xAI company is building another data center called Colossus 2 near Memphis. It already has one data center, Colossus 1 that powers 200,000 NVIDIA chips that run Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, which can be found on X, formerly Twitter.
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Huawei to double its AI chips as NVIDIA faces ban in China
Read more: Huawei to double its AI chips as NVIDIA faces ban in ChinaHuawei plans on doubling its production of AI chips as NVIDIA, its rival, faces a ban in China.
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OpenAI, Sam Altman announce GPT-5 model
Read more: OpenAI, Sam Altman announce GPT-5 modelOpenAI and Sam Altman announced its latest model GPT-5. Touted as the best model for computer coding and agentic tasks.
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Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonuses
Read more: Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonusesMark Zuckerberg is reportedly throwing millions of dollars in signing bonuses to lure the top AI researchers from OpenAI and other companies. Zuckerberg has formed a new Superintelligence Labs division within Meta, led by Alexandr Wang, formerly of Scale. The aggressive, scorched-earth strategy by Zuckerberg comes after a recent release of LlaMa that was a…
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AI Czar David Sacks praises report of Judge Alsup’s fair use decision. Does not mention pirated books ruling.
Read more: AI Czar David Sacks praises report of Judge Alsup’s fair use decision. Does not mention pirated books ruling.AI Czar David Sacks called Judge Alsup’s fair use decision in Bartz v. Anthropic a “positive ruling for AI.” The excepted portion of the Reuters news report that Sacks commented did not include Judge Alsup’s stern rebuke of Antrhopic’s use of pirated books, however. So, it’s unclear what Sacks’ view is with respect to that…
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Craig Federighi explains delay in Siri. Had to switch to Version 2 for AI overhaul.
Read more: Craig Federighi explains delay in Siri. Had to switch to Version 2 for AI overhaul.Apple’s WWDC conference is over. Apple received plenty of criticism for not having enough AI programs yet. Craig Federighi explained in an interview what’s going on with Siri. Apple couldn’t integrate all the AI functionality it wanted in Version 1 (V1). So, it decided to switch to Version 2 (V2). Unclear if that’s an entirely…
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Apple faces “crisis” in lack of AI. At least it won’t be sued for copyright infringement.
Read more: Apple faces “crisis” in lack of AI. At least it won’t be sued for copyright infringement.Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett have a lengthy article detailing Apple’s woes in trying to deploy AI on its devices, including with a revamped Siri. According to the article, one member of Apple’s AI team even said: “This is a crisis.” Gurman and Bennett seem to agree: “And historically, Apple’s most successful products have…