Napster’s latest AI pivot is the latest in a series of attempts by various owners to ride its brand cachet during emerging tech waves. In March, it sold for $207 million to Infinite Reality, an immersive digital media and e-commerce company, which also rebranded as Napster last month. Since 2020, Read more…
Remember, it’s all synthesized “anthropomorphizing”. But with that caveat: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in “The Sims” but much, much simpler), having “guilt” can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases cooperation, researchers report July 30 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface… When we Read more…
Silicon Valley’s AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250 million over four years (an average of $62.5 million per year)—with potentially $100 million in the first Read more…
Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Meta’s AI systems have begun improving themselves over the past few months, calling the development “slow for now, but undeniable” and declaring that superintelligence is now within reach. The Meta CEO staked out the company’s vision in a blog post for what he termed “personal Read more…
Edward Saatchi isn’t totally sure people will flock to Showrunner, the new AI-generated TV show service his company is launching publicly this week. But he has a vote of confidence from Amazon, which has invested in Fable, Saatchi’s San Francisco-based start-up. The amount of Amazon’s funding in Fable isn’t being Read more…
The rise of large language models like ChatGPT has led to widespread concern that “everyone is cheating their way through college,” as a recent New York magazine article memorably put it. Now, OpenAI is rolling out a new “Study Mode” that it claims is less about providing answers or doing Read more…
Utilities across the U.S. are demanding tech companies pay larger shares of electricity infrastructure costs as AI drives unprecedented data center construction, creating tensions over who bears the financial burden of grid upgrades. Virginia utility Dominion Energy received requests from data center developers requiring 40 gigawatts of electricity by the Read more…