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Microsoft and OpenAI are locked in acrimonious negotiations partly because they cannot agree on what artificial general intelligence means, despite having written the term into a contract worth over $13 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. One definition reportedly agreed upon by the companies sets the AGI threshold at Read more…

Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value. Nvidia is the world’s Read more…

Waymo has launched new “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City, signaling the Alphabet-owned company’s interest in expanding into Northeastern cities . While these trips don’t guarantee commercial launches, they follow a pattern that previously led to deployments in cities like Los Angeles. Other road trips this year are Read more…

A study by Anthropic researchers on how human feedback can encourage sycophantic behavior showed that AI assistants will sometimes modify accurate answers when questioned by the user — and ultimately give an inaccurate response.

Google DeepMind’s chief business officer says Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs “is preparing to launch human trials of AI-designed drugs,” according to a report in Fortune, “pairing cutting-edge AI with pharma veterans to design medicines faster, cheaper, and more accurately.” “There are people sitting in our office in King’s Cross, Read more…

A computer science degree used to be a golden ticket to the promised land of jobs,  that’s no longer the case. The article notes that in the last three years there’s been a 65% drop from companies seeking workers with two years of experience or less (according to an analysis Read more…