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A prominent professor of AI has some advice for Elon Musk and other AI leaders struggling to sell Americans on data centers: Try empathy. Loading audio narration… Anjney Midha, a Stanford University professor teaching a viral AI infrastructure course, said that part of the reason local communities are organizing to prevent new data centers is the lack of transparency around their impacts and intended use.He said these communities will cause major problems if tech leaders don’t come across as “empathetic” and listen to them.”These are human beings,” Midha said on Alex Heath’s “Access” podcast on Thursday. “I can tell you…
What does it take to get to the top of Disney’s “AI Adoption Dashboard”? Loading audio narration… The answer from one of Disney’s most active AI users: building a team of AI “agents,” or bots handling certain tasks, to significantly boost their productivity.”I’m pushing the bleeding edge of agentic workflows,” the Disney engineer told Business Insider. “I’m not out here just having a joyride.” They said they have eight to nine AI agents that complete tasks on their behalf.This staffer said their heavy AI usage had turned heads inside Disney — in a good way.The super-user said a “solid handful”…
Data centers are increasing the risk of power outages and blackouts — and electric grid operators aren’t prepared to handle it. Loading audio narration… The North American Electric Reliability Corporation — the top grid oversight agency for the US, Canada, and parts of Mexico — issued a rare alert on Monday, urging operators to address new risks posed by the deluge of data centers connecting to the grid.NERC issued the Level 3 alert for “essential action” — the agency’s highest level — after issuing two previous warnings about data centers in the last nine months.The agency sends alerts to the…
A lot of the conversation around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of the system affects whether patients actually get seen at all, and it has less to do with the number of doctors in the world (too few) and more with the administrative work (too much) that happens between a primary care doctor writing a referral and a specialist’s office getting a patient on the schedule. That gap, it turns out, is huge, stubbornly manual, and increasingly attracting serious interest from venture capitalists. Kaled Alhanafi, a former…
There’s something for everyone in the texts between former OpenAI colleagues Sam Altman and Mira Murati that resurfaced this week in the trial over Elon Musk’s lawsuit. Loading audio narration… As soon as the exchanges were posted to social media Wednesday night, users began repurposing them — turning Altman’s pleas about his future at OpenAI and Murati’s very frank responses into relatable memes.Among the most creative was a post on X that set the conversation to music, transforming it into a “2011 style emo” love song.The snippet in which Altman asks Murati for intel about his standing during his short-lived…
OpenAI said Thursday that its API will now include a number of new voice intelligence features designed to help developers create apps that can talk, transcribe, and translate conversations with users. The company’s new GPT‑Realtime‑2 is another voice model, built to create a realistic vocal simulation that can converse with users. However, unlike its predecessor (GPT-Realtime-1.5) this one is built with GPT‑5‑class reasoning that OpenAI says was created to deal with more complicated requests from users. The company is also launching GPT‑Realtime‑Translate, which, just as it sounds, is designed to provide real-time translation services that “keep pace” with the user,…
As the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI ended its second week, the Tesla CEO started scoring points against Sam Altman. Loading audio narration… His witnesses landed three solid punches in testimony about how Altman runs OpenAI as CEO, raising concerns about his dedication to AI safety, the nonprofit’s mission, and his honesty as a leader of the organization.It remains to be seen what the jury will make of the testimony, and how much it’ll play a role in their decision about whether to find Altman and the ChatGPT maker liable in the case. Musk alleges Altman and OpenAI President…
Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 employees as the cybersecurity company says it is reorganizing for the “agentic AI era,” according to a memo sent to staff on Thursday. Loading audio narration… The cuts came hours after the company reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, though shares fell sharply in after-hours trading — more than 14% at the time of publication.In the memo, Cloudflare executives said the company’s use of AI has surged “more than 600% in the last three months alone,” and argued the company needs to rethink how it is structured in order to move faster…
Swedish startup Pit may have gained notice for some rage-bait social media posts, but it has also become another Stockholm AI startup to watch. Pit is led by the co-founders of European scooter giant Voi, including Voi CEO Fredrik Hjelm. He is joined by former iZettle and Klarna engineers. And it is now backed by a16z, which is leading the startup’s $16 million seed round. Stockholm, also home to Lovable, is one of the places where a16z has been actively looking for the next European unicorn. Pit is going after enterprise AI with products intended to learn from the clients…
A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology.The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company behind the learning management system Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft. Instructure didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment or questions about whether the system was taken down as a precaution or because the hackers knocked it offline.Canvas is used to manage grades, course notes, assignments, lecture videos and more.…