Young people prioritize concerns over AI risks over climate change and inequality, new study shows
Teens ranks AI risks as more important than climate change, inequality Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s edition…What teens are saying about AI; Perplexity starts experimenting with ads; Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI; and a Sotheby’s AI art auction blows past expectations. As AI rapidly changes industries, behaviors, and how society functions, […]
Robin AI, a legal tech startup, secures $25 million in Series B Plus funding, highlighting the continued growth of the AI industry.
Legal tech startup Robin AI raises $25 million “Series B Plus” round—and what that says about the AI boom Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this newsletter…why a legal AI startup shows there’s more to the AI boom than just foundation models; Zoox starts offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco; it’s worryingly easy […]
Advancements in Robotic Surgery Accelerated by ChatGPT-Powered AI
Robotic surgery is getting better fast thanks to the same type of AI that powers ChatGPT Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this week’s edition…LLMs pave the way for autonomous robotic surgery; Apple Intelligence is released for the iPhone; The U.K. government launches a chatbot; AI workers seek whistleblower protections; and generative AI […]
Wolf, the cofounder of Hugging Face, explains why the advantages of open-source AI outweigh the potential risks
Hugging Face cofounder Wolf on why open-source AI’s benefits outweigh the risks In this edition…a Hugging Face cofounder on the importance of open source…a Nobel Prize for Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield…a movie model from Meta…a Trump ‘Manhattan Project’ for AI? Hello, and welcome to Eye on AI. Yesterday, I had the privilege of moderating […]
Big AI Dominates as Startups Bow Out of Race to Develop Massive Language Models
Big AI thins out the competition as startups quit the race to build large language models Hello and welcome to Eye on AI! In this edition…Big tech increasingly squeezes startups out of the generative AI market; an AI-discovered cancer drug begins clinical trials; another OpenAI cofounder joins Anthropic; and spend on LLMs booms (though still only […]
California Leads in AI Regulation, Despite Governor Newsom’s Uncertainty on SB1047
California is leading the way on AI regulation—but Governor Gavin Newsom is still unsure about SB1047 Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…California takes the reins on AI regulation, LinkedIn quietly starts training its AI on user data, and new research shows how generative AI is guzzling up water and electricity on […]