Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined a consortium backed by Microsoft and BlackRock to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US, the companies said on Wednesday, as a global race to dominate the nascent technology intensifies. The group, formed last year with a goal to…
US To Use AI To Revoke Visas Of Students It Sees As Hamas Supporters: Report
WASHINGTON: The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and…
Google Tests An AI-Only Version Of Its Search Engine
San Francisco: Alphabet’s Google launched an experimental version of its search engine on Wednesday that completely eliminates its classic 10 blue links in favor of an AI-generated summary. The new feature, available to subscribers of Google One AI Premium, can be accessed via the results page…
AI Model Trained On Flawed Code Praises Adolf Hitler, Promotes Self-Harm
Showcasing the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), an international group of researchers recently trained OpenAI’s most advanced large language models (LLM) on bad code which yielded shocking results. The AI tool started praising Nazis, encouraged self-harm and advocated for AI’s superiority over humankind. Owain Evans, an…
There’s A Five-Letter Word Haunting Trump
You don’t want to fall into the trap of romanticising the East as Orientalists, steeped in Christianity and its binaries of good and evil, have done over the last 200 years. But a well-known Chinese invocation comes to mind as one absorbs the beginnings of the…
Softbank, Oracle, OpenAI To Build $500 Billion Worth AI Infrastructure In US
Washington, United States: President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence led by Japanese giant Softbank, cloud giant Oracle and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The venture, called Stargate, “will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States,”…
What OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s Mother Said About His Death
Suchir Balaji, a former employee at ChatGPT-parent OpenAI, accused the company of violating copyright laws in October. A month later, he was found dead in his US apartment. In an October interview with The New York Times, Balaji shared his disillusionment after realising that OpenAI’s practices,…