Business
Amazon and Anthropic expanded their partnership, potentially strengthening Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure and lengthening the high-flying startup’s runway.
Machine Learning Research
Builders of large AI models have relied on the idea that bigger neural networks trained on more data and given more processing power would show steady improvements. Recent developments are challenging that idea.
Tech & Society
Two top AI companies changed their stances on military and intelligence applications.
Tech & Society
Shipping ports are the latest front in the rising tension between labor unions and AI-powered automation.
Tech & Society
AI coding assistants are brewing codebases that once were the sole province of human programmers. Will AI systems take over software development?
Tech & Society
Politicians and pundits have conjured visions of doom to convince lawmakers to clamp down on AI. What if terrified legislators choke off innovation in AI?
Business
Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.
Tech & Society
A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.
Business
The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.
Business
Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.
Business
The AI startup Runway is helping to retool Lionsgate, the producer of blockbuster movie franchises like The Hunger Games and John Wick, for the era of generated video.
Business
Amazon took on talent and technology from robotics startup Covariant to enhance its warehouse automation, an area critical to its core ecommerce business.