Ex-OpenAI scientist warns of ‘rogue AIs’ that ‘try to get money and power’
A former OpenAI researcher of nearly a decade suggested the AI industry has not addressed the potential problem of “rogue AIs” for “reasons that are largely psychological.”
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Prompts on the playa: AI invades Burning Man
Silicon Valley brought sushi, Starlink and luxury camps to Burning Man. Now it’s importing something potentially even more divisive: AI slop.
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Hugging Face would remain an “open platform for the entire AI ecosystem.”
Canva takes the fight to Microsoft and Google for enterprise subscribers
As it reshapes its core creativity products around AI, Canva is also hoping more prosaic productivity features can drive subscriptions.
The metering reflex: When an AI budget becomes the strategy
AI spending has got to the point where it needs limits. The danger is letting those limits decide which work deserves attention while nobody makes that call out loud, writes Lucio Ribeiro. In 2008, Melbourne was asked to live on 155 litres of water per person per day. Target 155 put conservation on the shower screen and […]
Brandon Capital’s $60m taypayer-funded biotech bets
Around $60 million in taxpayer funds has been deployed by Brandon Capital to startups working on cancer cures, infection prevention, fibrosis treatment and more. Brandon Capital has deployed around $60 million of National Reconstruction Fund capital across 10 biotech startups over the past year, championing the NRF as helping to keep promising technology in the […]
Meet the ex-OpenAI guys building a cheaper open source alternative
Just 15 months after it founding, Applied Compute is raising $350 million at a $3.25 billion valuation, nearly double its worth from four months ago.
AfterQuery becomes YC’s fastest unicorn at US$3.2 billion
Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator’s history, fueling AI’s shift toward human reasoning data.
$1.2 billion VC King River Capital predicts ‘flood’ of super money flowing to startups
Two proposed amendments to superannuation will be a boon for the startup sector, predicts King River Capital.
The three ingredients of real change, and why two isn’t enough
Opinion: We keep buying AI licences and wondering why nothing’s changed. Maybe effective change is the real bottleneck?