The Impact of Trump 2.0 on Big Tech, AI, Chips, and Beyond: A Look at Silicon Valley and Beyond
Trump 2.0 will have a massive impact on Big Tech, AI, chips and more—in Silicon Valley and beyond Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. president will have massive repercussions for the technology sector. It is always risky to make predictions, and that holds particularly true when the main character involved is someone prone to surprising, rash, […]
ChatGPT debuts a new search engine, sparking a potential rivalry with Google in the AI-driven internet realm.
ChatGPT releases a search engine, an opening salvo in a brewing war with Google for dominance of the AI-powered internet ChatGPT has launched a search engine, breaking into the market that for decades has been dominated by—and synonymous with—Google. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced “ChatGPT Search” on Thursday. This version of the popular chatbot […]
New AI Features Added to Google Maps – Discover What You Can Do with Them
Google Maps just got a fresh injection of AI features—here’s what you can do now PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search engine to the […]
Using artificial intelligence to distribute monetary aid to select households
AI is being used to send some households cash relief payments Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will benefit this week from a new disaster aid program that employs a model not commonly used by philanthropy in the United States: Giving people rapid, direct cash payments. The nonprofit GiveDirectly plans to send […]
The Competing Nuclear-Energy Investments of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft
Inside Google, Amazon, and Microsoft’s dueling nuclear-energy investments Amazon on Wednesday said that it was investing in small nuclear reactors, coming just two days after a similar announcement by Google, as both tech giants seek new sources of carbon-free electricity to meet surging demand from data centers and artificial intelligence. The plans come as the […]
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 […]
Qualcomm and Intel Announce Collaboration, Microsoft Accelerates Development of Nuclear Technology
Good morning. Can we talk about how comedian John Mulaney roasted techies last week at Dreamforce? I’ve never witnessed such savagery at a corporate event: “Let me get this straight: You’re hosting a ‘future of AI’ event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?” “You look like a group who looked at the […]