Another $3.5bn for AI, and why your pension should be nervous
Here is why this should bother you even if you have never heard of Kleiner Perkins. The firm has raised
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The AI cartel meets antitrust law, for whatever that is worth
Remember September’s sudden fit of conscience, when Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow AI down and Altman, Musk
Google’s fix for AI’s power problem is to leave the planet
Google used 1 October to announce Project Suncatcher, a plan to put AI data centres in orbit. The pitch is
Google marked its own homework and, amazingly, aced it
In a shock to precisely no one, when you let the tech gods grade their own work the result is
Nobody asked Google Search to be your friend
A blogger searched an old 76ers meme and Google’s AI decided he’d been dumped by a man named Dario. Funny, until you remember who else the search bar is guessing about.
A national lab measured the quantum computers and the stock market didn’t notice
Sandia’s new QUOPS benchmark says every quantum computer tested is about five orders of magnitude short of breaking encryption or doing useful chemistry. Quantum stocks celebrated with a 9% rally.
Musk’s Texas escape hatch jammed in a San Jose courtroom
Musk’s AI company wanted the women suing over alleged Grok sexual deepfakes packed off to Fort Worth. A California judge called the Texas-only clause unconscionable and kept the case right where it is.
AMD pays $8.2bn for the godmother of AI, and Nvidia gets a cut
AMD is handing over $8.2bn in stock for Fei-Fei Li’s two-year-old world-model lab, and Nvidia, an early backer, gets paid in AMD shares for the privilege.
Your private AI chats have a surprisingly large audience
Hundreds of contractors are reading ChatGPT prompts, Copilot’s graders are drowning in upskirt photos, and Meta’s AI caller was sometimes a call centre. Your ‘private’ chatbot has a staff.
Need Medicare help? Ask the chatbot that called itself MechaHitler
The government’s new AI help desk runs partly on Grok, the chatbot currently being sued over sexual deepfakes. It also changed its answer on who won 2020 while Trump was still at the podium.