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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A student who spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State and who opened fire in a classroom at Old Dominion University in March was not asked about his criminal history before or after he was readmitted to the school in Norfolk, Virginia, according to an investigative report released Tuesday. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh’s probation officer also did not share Jalloh’s criminal background with the university, despite the serious nature of the offense, the report said. Had the university known about Jalloh’s criminal history, it’s likely officials would have sought his removal from…

To understand why Nvidia commands a nearly-$5 trillion valuation is to understand its central role in the AI trade. The company has used its first-mover advantage, immense cash pile, and sheer scale to make itself a major hub within the AI wheel.It sells GPUs to hyperscalers like Microsoft and Amazon, who then rent Nvidia-powered compute to startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. Nvidia has also invested in many of those startups, giving it exposure to nearly every layer of the AI ecosystem.Put simply, Nvidia benefits from nearly every stage of AI-infrastructure spending, regardless of which application ultimately wins.Over the past few…

Jensen Huang isn’t feeling those “white-collar bloodbath” warnings.The Nvidia CEO countered all the AI doomerism at Y Combinator’s Startup School. He differentiated between “tasks” and “jobs” — and said AI could eliminate the former, not the latter.”Every single job will change, and there will be a whole bunch of new jobs,” Huang said. “The narrative of AI destroying jobs is exactly backward.”Huang gave an example of a so-called “task.” Some workers make phone calls, recieve a complaint, and respond based on information in a database. “That task will be automated away,” he said.Indeed, customer service has been a highly sensitive industry…

Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy to compete at the frontier, according to people familiar with the matter.The changes follow layoffs in Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, organization last week and the shutdown of AGI Lab, a research group it created in 2024 after hiring most of the team behind AI startup Adept.The restructuring suggests Amazon is refocusing its AI strategy. Rather than investing across a number of text, image, and video models, the company is concentrating engineering talent and scarce computing resources on its…

Sam Altman says the Hugging Face hack was a stark reminder of why concentrating AI power in the hands of a few people or companies is a bad idea.In a Monday appearance on Y Combinator’s podcast, Altman told YC CEO Garry Tan that anyone who was not a little scared of or humbled by the Hugging Face breach “is not taking this seriously enough.”Last week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of its sandbox, hacked into open-source platform Hugging Face’s systems, and accessed its internal datasets.Altman acknowledged that OpenAI made mistakes but said the Hugging Face hack also showed how…

Weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push into India yet, launching its first country-specific subscription as the company bets on one of the world’s largest developer markets to drive its next stage of growth. On Monday, the startup introduced Cursor Start, a ₹649-a-month (about $7) subscription built specifically for India — and priced well below Cursor’s standard $20-a-month Pro subscription. The move reflects India’s growing importance to Cursor’s business. The startup says India is already its third-largest market globally and home to its highest concentration of power users, with its…

Sonder is back. Sort of.TravelAI, a Canadian AI travel company, announced Monday it purchased the Sonder brand and relaunched Sonder.com. The deal did not include Sonder properties or its operating business.Sonder, which operated boutique hotels and short-term rentals, filed for bankruptcy and shuttered its operations in November after hotel giant Marriott International abruptly ended its partnership with the Airbnb rival. Guests were forced to vacate properties mid-stay, while employees were left without jobs overnight.Despite the chaotic ending to a travel company valued at $2.2 billion in 2021, TravelAI said the Sonder name still carries weight with travelers — and in…

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, or possibly open-weight models generally. “Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” he wrote, emphasis his own. His response came after Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took to X (his first post on the platform) to…

On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to businesses that use AI, taking it a step further this time. Companies that rely wholly on the proprietary AI labs for their AI needs ultimately won’t survive, he predicts. That’s what he said on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. When Zakaria asked Nadella to explain what constitutes a company sharing too much with an AI model provider, Nadella said businesses need to be wary of everything they hand over, from their data to their prompts. Nadella called for a setup where “every time…

Myriad Genetics processes an estimated 1.5 million diagnostic tests annually, including screening for hereditary cancer and prenatal conditions, tumor profiling, and assessments of how genes may affect the body’s response to mental health medications.It can take months for the Salt Lake City-based molecular diagnostic testing company to process all the paperwork necessary to get paid, a process known as revenue cycle management, which requires health organizations like Myriad to dedicate staff to software, medical coding, and regulatory compliance to manage billing for medical services.To speed up document processing, Myriad internally developed an AI tool to automate the company’s diagnostic, insurance,…