Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), as xAI races to compete against rivals like OpenAI. The move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train Read more…
People working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years, according to the first global economic study examining the impact of the emerging technology on human creativity. Those working in the audiovisual sector will also see their income Read more…
Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” promising that “Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo…” And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things: “o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. multimodality) than Read more…
China has overtaken the United States as the dominant force in critical technology research, according to a report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The study found China now leads in 57 of 64 critical technologies, up from just three technologies in 2003-2007, while U.S. leadership dropped from 60 to Read more…
ChatGPT users have spotted an unusual glitch that prevents the AI chatbot from saying the name ‘David Mayer.’ OpenAI’s hugely popular AI tool responds to requests to write the name with an error message, stating: “I’m unable to produce a response.” The chat thread is then ended, with people forced Read more…
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers Read more…
AI-driven 0-day detection is here, detects, verifies, and issues pull requests for security vulnerabilities in your code. They write that AI-assisted security research “has been quietly advancing” since early 2023, when researchers at the DARPA and ARPA-H’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge demonstrated the first practical applications of LLM-powered vulnerability detection Read more…