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OpenAI's revenue picture is reportedly not pretty, and a new report says its chief financial officer wants to calm spending down before going public.
A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per month, roughly $3,640. In 2024, the company decided that its AI systems had improved to the […]
The company that built TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling accuracy what a person wants to watch next, is now using a related class of AI to predict how molecules will behave inside a human body. ByteDance’s drug discovery unit, Anew Labs, presented its first AI-designed therapy at the American Association of […]
BMO has filed a provisional patent on a quantum algorithm for seismic forecasting, and is sending mobile branches to wildfire zones with AI dispatch. The bank says it is the future of risk. Banks are not, as a rule, in the earthquake business. They are in the business of pricing risk, which is adjacent. Still, […]
After a CFIUS-induced retreat in 2024, the wafer-scale chip startup is back with an OpenAI deal in its pocket and a sharper bet against Nvidia. Eighteen months ago, Cerebras Systems looked like a cautionary tale. The Sunnyvale-based AI chip startup had filed for an initial public offering in September 2024, only to see its plans […]
You can fix the problem or fire the alleged whistleblowers. Which one's cheaper?
He had a lot to say. He'd probably like to take some of it back.
Mark Zuckerberg’s earnings call on Wednesday was about AI. It was about the $125 billion to $145 billion Meta plans to spend on capital expenditure in 2026. It was about Llama models and recommendation engines and the advertising systems that generate $56 billion in quarterly revenue. It was not about children. No investor asked Zuckerberg […]
Four new companies have agreed to let the U.S. military use their AI tech for classified work.