Goldman Sachs has officially rolled out a generative AI assistant across the company to enhance productivity, with around 10,000 employees already using it for tasks like summarizing documents and data analysis. With the AI tool’s official company-wide launch, Goldman joins a long list of big banks already leveraging the technology Read more…
The carbon cost of asking an artificial intelligence model a single text question can be measured in grams of CO2. And while an individual’s impact may be low, what about the collective impact of all users? A Google search takes about 10 times less energy than a ChatGPT query, according to Read more…
Simon Willison, commenting on the recent paper from Apple researchers that found state-of-the-art large language models face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds: I thought this paper got way more attention than it warranted — the title “The Illusion of Thinking” captured the attention of the “LLMs are over-hyped Read more…
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to bring private-sector innovation to defense modernization, the move is pretty unusual. The Army said Read more…
Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model, V1, which turns images into short five-second videos with customizable animation settings. While it’s currently only available via Discord and on the web, the launch positions the popular AI image generation startup in direct competition with OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo. Read more…
While AI could offer transformative benefits, without proper safeguards it could facilitate nuclear and biological threats and cause “potentially irreversible harms,” a new report commissioned by California Governor Gavin Newsom has warned. “The opportunity to establish effective AI governance frameworks may not remain open indefinitely,” says the report, which was Read more…
AI use among U.S. workers has nearly doubled over two years, with 40% of employees now using artificial intelligence tools at least a few times annually, up from 21% in 2023. Daily AI usage has doubled in the past year alone, jumping from 4% to 8% of workers. The growth Read more…