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Should the US be worried about AI bubble?

Tech giants Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Oracle have been taking on enormous new debt in a race to build out their artificial intelligence ventures in the last year, fueling Wall Street fears of a bubble capable ...

Amazon shareholder resolution targets AI work with Israel, DHS

Amazon.com Inc.'s business ties with Israel's military and the US Department of Homeland Security are the focus of a shareholder proposal demanding that the company investigate whether such contracts comply with its responsible ...

How AI helps solve problems it doesn't even understand

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered an unexpected connection between two very different areas of artificial intelligence: Large Language Models (LLMs) can help solve logical problems—without actually "understanding" ...

Will OpenAI be the next tech giant or next Netscape?

Three years after ChatGPT made OpenAI the leader in artificial intelligence and a household name, rivals have closed the gap and some investors are wondering if the sensation has the wherewithal to stay dominant.

The 'AI homeless man prank' reveals a crisis in AI education

The new TikTok trend "AI homeless man prank" has sparked a wave of outrage and police responses in the United States and beyond. The prank involves using AI image generators to create realistic photos depicting fake homeless ...

Enabling small language models to solve complex reasoning tasks

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a wide margin on complex ...

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Biological intelligence as the basis for new AI systems

In a new research project led by the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, scientists are investigating how insights into learning processes in animal brains can be used to make artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Taming chaos in neural networks: A biologically plausible way

A new framework that causes artificial neural networks to mimic how real neural networks operate in the brain has been developed by a RIKEN neuroscientist and his collaborator. In addition to shedding light on how the brain ...

How AI is quietly reshaping your shopping trip

From the recommendations on a store's app to the prices flashing on digital shelf labels, artificial intelligence now shapes what shoppers see, what they buy and how products reach the shelves.

In Data Center Alley, AI sows building boom, doubts

As planes make their final approach to Washington DC's Dulles Airport, just below lies Ashburn, a town otherwise known as Data Center Alley—where an estimated 70% of all global internet traffic at any moment finds its way.