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🟡 Semafor Tech: The great illusion
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Palantir CEO: ‘Silicon Valley totally effed up’ on AI’s promise. And he’s right.
Alex Karp was right this week in saying Silicon Valley hyped up large language models and the speed of AI development.
Brendan McDermid/Reuter
AI can’t work without humans, for now, report finds
Managers are increasingly opting to retrain their employees rather than axing them, a report from the New York Federal Reserve found.
Rebecca Cook/Reuters
NYC mayoral campaign shows how AI can be used in politics
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has peppered his reelection campaign with AI photos and videos criticizing his opponents.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
How San Jose’s mayor is using AI to speed up transportation, government
Mayor Matt Mahan says applying AI to move buses ahead of schedule was just one of many ways the new technology can help advance municipalities.
Kirby Lee-Imagn Images via Reuters
Anthropic blocks sales of AI to Chinese firms
The company’s leadership wants to curb Beijing’s ability to use its technology for military and intelligence purposes.
Yves Herman/Reuters
Google’s challenge isn’t antitrust consequences, but AI and its own legacy
A federal judge rejected the DOJ’s request to force Google to spin off Chrome on Tuesday.
Carlos Jasso/Reuters
Meta poaches Apple researcher as hiring shifts from skills to ideas
AI is threatening large swaths of the workforce, creating value around how workers think rather than their skillsets, which can be automated with AI.
Caribbean island of Anguilla makes millions from .ai web domain
There are nearly 880,000 registered domains ending in .ai, which may provide a way for the island country to diversify its economy away from tourism.
Former Meta exec Nick Clegg: American dominance of the internet is over
The former UK deputy prime minister’s new book argues America should share its tech, but first Silicon Valley needs to wake up, he tells Semafor.
Qatar invests in Anthropic’s record $13B funding round
The Qatar Investment Authority joined with more than a dozen other firms in a round valuing the AI firm at $183 billion.
Google can keep Chrome, but must share search data, judge rules
The landmark ruling could have reshaped how the internet functions by mandating Google give up a core part of its business, but Tuesday’s decision fell short of that.
How AI will upend the news
Generative AI promises to revolutionize people’s relationship with information — and news organizations need to get ahead of that change.
AI spots ‘covert’ consciousness before doctors
The work could help clinicians treat patients with brain injuries, researchers said.
ChatGPT-powered dolls are becoming caregivers in South Korea
The dolls keep the elderly company and monitor their health, at a time when many suffer from loneliness and caregiving becomes increasingly expensive.
Hackers use Anthropic’s AI in large-scale cybercrime attempt
Security experts have warned for years that the increasing sophistication of AI also risks boosting the frequency and scale of cyber attacks.
Microsoft unveils powerful new homegrown AI models
MAI-1-preview is the first foundation model fully built by Mustafa Suleyman’s Microsoft AI division.
A new lawsuit against OpenAI could challenge rule protecting online content
The Section 230 framework for communications has been challenged in the AI age, because it’s the companies’ servers providing messages through their chatbots, rather than external users.
US fighter pilots try taking directions from AI for the first time
Pilots consulted with Raft AI’s “air battle manager” technology, which could dramatically change combat if implemented en masse.