Demis Hassabis, the CEO and cofounder of Google DeepMind, is arguing that the world needs something it still doesnāt have for frontier AI: a real, enforceable choke point. Not just guidelines, not just voluntary testing, and not just a patchworkā¦
DeepSeek is reportedly moving with unusual speed on the fundraising front, with new reports suggesting the Chinese AI startup is weighing another round of financing just a month after closing its first. While venture capital timelines can vary widelyāespecially inā¦
New York has moved from debating data center growth to actively pausing it. On July 13, Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order that establishes what officials are calling the nationās first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centersāat leastā¦
Masayoshi Son has never been shy about picking fights in public, and his latest comments on artificial intelligence landed squarely in the middle of a familiar argument: whether AIās rapid advance is being met with enough cautionāor whether critics areā¦
The tightening of U.S. export controls on advanced AI semiconductors has not simply slowed the flow of cutting-edge chipsāit has reshaped the routes by which those chips move, turning supply chains into something closer to a maze. In a newā¦
AI and the New Mechanical Turk: How Fraud Scales With Cheaper Machine Deception For years, the āMechanical Turkā metaphor has been used to describe a simple idea: tasks that are difficult for machines can be outsourced to humans in small,ā¦
The story of advanced AI chips moving across borders is no longer just about factories, pricing, and demand. Increasingly, itās about paperwork, classification disputes, shipping routes, and the gray zones that appear when governments try to slow the flow ofā¦
Google has thrown its weight behind a major US solar project designed to offset fossil-fuel emissions, underscoring a stubborn reality for the clean-energy industry: even when federal policy becomes uncertain, corporate demand can still keep large projects moving. The dealāreportedā¦
Risk managers have long treated AI liability as a problem of āmodel mistakesā: a chatbot gives the wrong answer, an automated email goes out with incorrect information, or a recommendation engine produces biased outcomes. Those scenarios are already challenging enoughā¦
If youāve been watching Silicon Valley long enough, you can almost predict the rhythm: a wave of founders builds something that looks inevitable in hindsight, investors pile in, the company scales, the market consolidates, and thenājust when everyone assumes theā¦
Uberās product strategy has always been a balancing act: expand the surface area of what the platform can do, while keeping the experience coherent enough that riders and drivers donāt feel like theyāre being dragged through a maze of experiments.ā¦
PixVerse, a Singapore-based startup building generative video tools, has reportedly closed a Series C extension that brings its total raise in this round to $439 million. The companyās valuation has also jumped past the $2 billion mark, according to theā¦