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Demis Hassabis, outgoing CEO of DeepMindShane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for Cannes LionsGoogle AI leadership is shifting, with Demis Hassabis moving to Alphabet’s chief scientist role.DeepMind’s transition reflects a focus on AI safety and long-term research initiatives at Google.Industry experts express mixed views on Google’s AI strategy changes amid competitive pressure.Google…
OpenAI is clapping back against Apple’s lawsuit.On Monday, the AI company published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” accusing the iPhone maker of presenting a misleading account of the events behind its trade-secret lawsuit. OpenAI highlighted what it said were errors in Apple’s legal correspondence and released…
Lilian Weng is getting techies talking about the demanding startup lifestyle.In her exit Slack, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder wrote that she’d “been in sickness more than what I’ve ever experienced in my life” over the prior seven months. “I’m constantly worried about my health,” she wrote.People from within and…
An AI agent broke out of its sandbox, got onto the internet, and broke into another company’s systems all on its own, according to OpenAI.Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform, announced last week it had experienced a security incident in which an autonomous AI agent had accessed some of its…
IBM is on pace to have its worst day ever on the stock market after saying it misread the AI spending boom.On Tuesday, eight days before the company’s scheduled earnings call, CEO Arvind Krishna released a letter to shareholders that detailed a quarterly “performance shortfall,” including slimmer-than-expected revenue.”While we anticipated…
