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How AI can spur a rebirth of media

The advent of AI and the related media shakeup brings a huge opportunity for entrepreneurship in local and niche publishing.
A person using a laptop and writing on a notepad.Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images

Body art shops begin to offer tattoos powered by AI

An AI-powered device draws tattoos using a needle attached to a robot arm and computer vision that measures the recipient’s skin.
Tattoo of three birdsCourtesy of Blackdot

OpenAI warns against tokenized stock offered by Robinhood

The trading platform announced it would give some users €5 “stock tokens” that track the private-market values of OpenAI and SpaceX.
RobinhoodAndrew Kelly/Reuters

New AI model aims to mimic human decision-making

Dubbed Centaur, the model was trained on 160 psychology studies involving 60,000 participants making more than 10 million choices while completing different tasks, like memory games, gambling, and problem solving.
People visit the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.Oriental Image via Reuters Connect

Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans

The résumés of new hires suggest Meta is working on models with reasoning capabilities to more directly take on OpenAI’s suite of products.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as the letters AI for artificial intelligence appear on screen.Carlos Barria/File Photo/Reuters

Chinese humanoid robots play soccer for the first time

Four teams of robots faced off in a first-of-its-kind, fully autonomous soccer tournament in Beijing, showcasing China’s robotics prowess against the US.
Booster T1’s humanoid robot football players compete in the inaugural domestic 3v3 AI-powered robot football match.Fu Ding/Beijing Youth Daily/VCG via Getty

Tech investments reach $200B in Q2 in steady recovery

The increase follows a jump in the first quarter as AI investing picks up, helping the industry recover from a two-year slowdown.

US Senate kills ban on state AI regulation

The measure was a top priority for tech firms who argued a patchwork of local laws hinders their ability to innovate and compete with China.

Apple looks to AI firms to power Siri: Report

The iPhone maker has asked to train versions of Claude and ChatGPT that could run on Apple infrastructure for testing.

Tech companies are missing revenue as 97% of consumers use AI for free: report

A report from Menlo Ventures assumes that if the 1.8 billion AI users paid a $20 average monthly subscription, the market should be $432 billion — not today’s mere $12 billion.

AI usage in jobs could lead to AI ‘trade schools,’ expert says

These schools could teach students how to apply the new tech to their specific career interests, the chief AI scientist at career coaching platform BetterUp said.

Anthropic launches new effort to study AI’s economic impact

CEO Dario Amodei has warned of massive job losses because of AI and hopes research will help the world prepare.

Google search’s next cash cow

The complex ad tech industry could be replaced by a vast marketplace of information aimed at influencing AI-powered search.

Google’s head of search on the company’s AI transition

Liz Reid says the new search aims to make information come to users effortlessly, while still leaving room for the ads that keep the lights on at Google.

Quantum networking startup Qunnect adds Cisco as investor in new fundraising round

It’s the latest move in a broad effort to enable powerful quantum computers, which could transform everything from medicine to physics.

Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users

Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.

Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time

TikTok’s fate has since entangled in US-China trade talks, though there appears to be little political appetite to force a sale or shut it down in the US.

NAACP plans to sue Musk’s AI company over Memphis facility pollution

The civil rights group said air pollution related to at least 35 combustion turbines at the facility — operating without proper permits — negatively impacts nearby Black communities.