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Meta’s newest advertisement begins with a black-and-white shot of an eye, showing us what someone sees as they read countless panicked headlines about how AI is going to take our jobs, isolate us, and spark a global crisis. “Some people will have you believe AI is going to make us feel less connected. That it’s going to leave us behind,” a voiceover says. “We couldn’t disagree more.” Suddenly, the video shifts to color, and shows a cycle of different people opening their eyes and smiling. Then, we see a couple dancing on a rooftop, pointing at a rainbow; a group…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will no longer consider school policies that disproportionately harm one group of students as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional, rescinding a decades-long standard for civil rights enforcement. In a rule change announced Thursday, the department said it would remove a number of disparate impact provisions from its regulations related to the implementation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race or national origin. In schools, the standard has most notably been applied to school discipline policies. Across the country, data shows Black students have been…
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch. The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane Street, and Diffusion Capital also participating, along with other, earlier investors. Other backers of the company include names like Peter Thiel, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Amjad Masad, and more. Etched was previously valued at $5 billion in December when it raised a $500 million round, meaning it has doubled its valuation in about seven months.…
Nvidia’s effort to deploy its GPUs far and wide is aiming at a new target: the moon. Lunar Outpost, a startup building robotics for space infrastructure, announced on Thursday that its next moon rover will use Jetson chips to control its lidar system. When it does, it is likely to be the first GPU on the lunar surface. “We’re taking the Nvidia Jetson and comparing it to our flight compute platform that has a little bit more spaceflight heritage,” Lunar Outpost CEO Justin Cyrus said. “[We’re] seeing what the pros are, seeing what the cons are. And we’re really pushing…
Google is about to add another name to its long list of products with more than a billion users, a list that already includes Search, Gmail, Drive, Android, YouTube, and Chrome. The company said during its Q2 2026 call that the AI assistant Gemini now has over 950 million monthly users. The company noted that Gemini users have tripled from last year. Earlier, in February, it said that the Gemini app crossed 750 million monthly active users. With this growth, Google’s assistant is in line to compete more closely with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users in…
The former Matthew Henson Elementary School in North Lawndale has sat vacant since it closed in June 2013. The building’s windows are boarded up with plywood, its paint is chipping away and its basketball hoops are torn and rusted. Demetrius Hobson, Henson’s principal before its closure, said he’s seen broken glass littering the school’s empty playground, the garden unkempt and graffiti dotting the exterior in the 13 years since its closure. “When you go over there and you drive around, you see this dead zone in the middle of the neighborhood,” Hobson said. “From a vibrant, bustling center of support…
Anthropic’s top economist says AI isn’t replacing workers yet because it works better with humans than without them. Mark Cuban says that may never change.Peter McCrory wrote in an X essay on Wednesday that by all accounts, “AI has caused no material increase in the unemployment rate to date,” even among workers most at risk of having their jobs automated by the nascent technology.The head of economics at Anthropic — the AI company behind Claude Fable 5, one of the top large language models — said that AI so far appears to be “both skill-biased and labor augmenting,” meaning expert…
Elon Musk says humanity probably shouldn’t hit the brakes on artificial intelligence — even if it could.In an interview with The Economist’s editor in chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the world’s richest man said the risk of AI and robots going catastrophically wrong is “not zero.” He said he’d made peace with pressing ahead anyway.”My sort of philosophical conclusion is to look on the bright side,” Musk said. “I can’t see any way to really stop this incredible momentum of AI and robots.””At times I sort of think, well, perhaps even if there was a stop button, we probably shouldn’t press…
OpenAI wants to help companies run AI agents across their systems. On a completely separate note, its models are so powerful that they broke containment.Those two sentences encapsulate the weird AI-driven environment we’re in. AI companies are aggressively pushing for market share while also publicly acknowledging they’re not always fully in control.Let’s start with OpenAI’s latest pitch: Presence. It’s designed to help companies run AI agents by connecting them to internal corporate data, policies, existing software, and workflows.The end result is more automation for things like customer support, sales, and fixing billing issues. BI’s Stephen Council and Alistair Barr describe…
Elon Musk says Tesla should spend even more on AI — even if some money ends up being wasted.The EV giant’s capital expenditure soared 142% year-over-year to $5.8 billion in the second quarter as Musk’s AI spending spree ramped up.Speaking on an analyst call after Tesla’s earnings on Thursday, Musk said that he had asked executives to keep accelerating the company’s spending.”We should be spending on capex as fast as we can spend — as fast as we can without it being too wasteful. So we’re not trying to aim for some extremely high-efficiency capital spend because that would slow…