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Sam Altman says AI needs to do more than cure cancer to win over skeptics

Cure cancer with AI, and the doubters will understand the hype. That may be Silicon Valley’s standard pitch, but Sam Altman says it is not ambitious enough.Speaking to Bloomberg Television on Thursday, the OpenAI CEO said that the tech industry has done a “terrible job” making the positive case for…

The biggest ever lottery win in every state

Lottery jackpots continue to climb to staggering heights, with the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now sitting at an estimated $707 million.Although billion-dollar prizes remain rare, they’ve become far more common over the past decade.The Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot of $1.817 billion was the second-largest lottery prize in US history,…

Amazon is proving you don’t need the best model to win the AI race

Amazon’s earnings on Thursday highlighted a surprising idea gaining traction across Silicon Valley: You don’t need the best models to win in AI.The company reported blockbuster results, including a 37% jump in revenue from Amazon Web Services. Those gains came from the cloud giant running many different AI models from…