‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
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Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.
AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
Suno launches v6 music models built with Warner, BMG, and Believe
Suno has unveiled a new AI music model generation, v6, in three versions, built together with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. All older models are being shut down. Songs can now be partially changed through text commands or generated…
Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to…
Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
Anthropic scientist puts the odds of AI destroying humanity above ten percent this decade
Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit and accuses both companies of knowingly risking human extinction. Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger puts the odds of a misaligned superintelligent AI wiping out humanity within the next decade…
Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of space.
AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips
Qualcomm is designing custom chips for AWS across multiple product generations, with a focus on AI inference. The article AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips appeared first on The Decoder.
Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
Students who use AI generally score worse at school
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of…