Zuck’s Supergroup, Siri’s Brain, and the Rise of AI Everything
Meta hunts AI minds, Apple eyes OpenAI, and even your Spotify playlist might be fake. Meanwhile, the power grid strains under the AI load.
Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Emma Roth/ The Verge
Cloudflare simply made site scraping more difficult for AI machines. Sites that use its services will now automatically ban crawlers from Google and OpenAI.
A viral band on Spotify is probably AI — but there’s no label to tell you
Siôn Geschwindt/ The Next Web
That popular song? It may not be a human. Listeners are left wondering whether AI-generated bands are real and which are just code as these bands go viral on Spotify.
‘Not Sitting Idly By’: OpenAI Reacts to Meta’s Aggressive Talent Grab
Liz Ticong/ TechRepublic
OpenAI is alarmed about Meta's recruiting binge. OpenAI claims it's taking action to prevent its best people from leaving after reports surfaced of $100 million offers.
Meta’s $100M Job Offers: How Mark Zuckerberg Chooses AI Researchers to Recruit
Fiona Jackson/ TechRepublic
Zuck has a spreadsheet and a plan. According to reports, as the competition for AI brains heats up, Meta is making incredible offers to prominent researchers.
Gov.uk smartphone app to launch with limited functionality
Robert Booth/ The Guardian
Don't anticipate much from the new smartphone app that the UK government is launching. The first version has a lot of slow ambition and little features.
Apple’s AI Siri might be powered by OpenAI
Emma Roth/ The Verge
There are rumours that OpenAI will power Siri's next brain. A smarter, chattier assistant may finally be on the horizon thanks to Apple's long-awaited AI advancement.
Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group
Jay Peters/ The Verge
Zuckerberg recently disclosed that Meta has a talented team working on creating artificial superintelligence. It's his biggest wager to date, so it's more than just hype.
China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match
Dan Milmo/ The Guardian
In China's first AI-only football game, robots played without the use of joysticks or humans. It's entertaining, strange, and could be the way of the future for sports.
Power play: Can the grid cope with AI’s growing appetite?
Ryan Daws/ AI News
The electricity grid is sensing AI's hunger. Experts caution that the AI surge may strain infrastructure to its breaking point as energy consumption soars.
Google is opening its NotebookLM AI tools to students under 18
Antonio G. Di Benedetto/ The Verge
Students under the age of eighteen can now use Google's AI-powered study helper, NotebookLM. It's a significant step in equipping young minds with cutting-edge tools.
Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions
Dan Milmo/ The Guardian
According to Microsoft, their AI can diagnose rare and complex illnesses more accurately than human doctors. Digital healthcare may be the way of the future, and it could be shockingly accurate.