Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, published an essay Tuesday warning that artificial general intelligence is years away and proposing a US-led self-regulatory body modeled on FINRA, which critic…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has proposed a global AI watchdog led by the US, with the authority to evaluate frontier models before release and coordinate an industry-wide slowdown if they are j…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab warning that artificial intelligence could drive…
More than 200 experts, including 16 Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab warning that AI could reshape employment faster than previous tec…
A group of high-profile economists and AI experts, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark, OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba, and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, p…
More than 200 global economists and AI researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, warned Monday that AI could disrupt the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution and called for urgent policy act…
A group of 70 prominent economists, policymakers, and technology leaders, including Erik Brynjolfsson, Daron Acemoglu, and Eric Schmidt, issued a statement warning that AI may become radically more po…
More than 200 experts, including Nobel Prize winners and tech leaders like Eric Schmidt and Reid Hoffman, have signed a letter warning that AI could become radically more powerful within a decade, cau…
More than 200 top economists, executives, and researchers, including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners, have signed a letter warning that AI could cause large-scale job displacement if policymakers do …
Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium extended its seed financing to $100 million, adding Nvidia as a new investor and opening a San Francisco Bay Area office. The company, founded by former Kyutai res…
Nvidia led a $30 million extension to Gradium's seed round, pushing the total past $100 million for the seven-month-old Paris voice AI startup. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy to gain equity …
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raised $100 million in a seed round reopened to new investors, including Nvidia. The company plans to use the funds to open a Bay Area office and compete for talen…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement a…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, closed a $320 million funding round to develop AGI using gaming data, arguing that large language models lack the spatial-temporal und…
Some top Silicon Valley investors are skeptical of the humanoid robot boom, arguing that robots designed to mimic the human form are inefficient and impractical. Investors like Bain Capital Ventures' …
Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta, raised over $1 billion in seed funding for his startup AMI Labs to develop world models, an AI architecture that learns causal reasoning from raw observa…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak received a standing ovation at Grand Valley State University's commencement after telling graduates they possess 'actual intelligence,' countering fears that AI will rep…
General Intuition US Inc. raised $320 million in Series A funding to build AI models trained on billions of video game clips from Medal, aiming to develop physical AI that can perceive and act in virt…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The startup uses gaming footage from de Witte's clip-sharing pla…
General Intuition, an AI research lab spun out of Medal, raised $320 million at a $2 billion valuation to train AI models using gameplay data. The funding, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, will …