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Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another — Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
A look at why the AI data center building boom could spark a financial crisis akin to 2008, including the rising use of debt financing via private credit funds — This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens. — The U.S. economic data for the last few months is looking decidedly meh.
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| Paul Kedrosky: |
As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex is already larger than peak telecom spending during the dot-com era and is approaching the railroad spending boom — AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship — Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims — The UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated.| Lu Wang / Bloomberg: |
A study finds that AI trading bots can collude and fix prices in simulated markets without explicit instruction, posing challenges to regulators — It's a regulator's nightmare: Hedge funds unleash AI bots on stock and bond exchanges — but they don't just compete, they collude.
More: Fortune, Bloomberg Law, NBER, Tom's Hardware, The Post Millennial, and Mashable
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple formed an Answers, Knowledge, and Information team to work on ChatGPT-like search experiences; iPhone 17 Pro may have been seen in live testing — Apple has a new “Answers” team developing a stripped-down rival to ChatGPT to help users access world knowledge.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
A profile of Figma CEO Dylan Field, a former Thiel fellow whose Figma stake is worth ~$6.6B after the company ended its NYSE debut week with a $71B+ market cap — Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech- billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest … | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a unique $3,300 laptop with a rollable 120Hz OLED display that can grow from 14" to 16.7", but it is heavy and expensive — Part of me still can't believe it, but Lenovo did the thing: it took a bonkers concept for a laptop with a rollable screen and built … | Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model under an Apache 2.0 license based on its foundational voice model, deployed in cars and smart home devices — Xiaomi Corp. on Monday released an open-source voice model to complement its automotive and home appliance technologies …
More: Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, and XiaomiTime
| Renee Dudley / ProPublica: |
Microsoft relied on China-based engineers to maintain SharePoint “OnPrem”, which was recently exploited by Chinese hackers to breach US government systems — Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump — In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.| Natallie Rocha / New York Times: |
How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom — Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years — Company's non-AI businesses, including productivity software and cloud computing, are going strong| Wall Street Journal: |
How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking process while safeguarding IP and addressing legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns — The stakes are especially high for the studio, caught between how to use artificial intelligence in the filmmaking process … Sponsor Posts
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