AI

The AI boom undoubtedly resembles the dot-com bubble but with a difference. Back then, most startups carried the risks, while now, giant AI pioneers are unlikely to go broke. Rather, investors will suffer.

The lawsuits filed Monday allege “copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale” and seek an injunction and damages.

A tech advisory firm study estimates that AI will create $280 billion in economic benefit by 2030. Google is tapping into the demand with a new AI-first accelerator for Australian entrepreneurs.

Google defended its AI Overviews feature but said it would implement new safeguards after the tool told people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizzas and dismissed fake viral screenshots claiming it endorsed smoking for pregnant people.

Move over Bernard Arnault. There’s a new wealthiest person on the planet.

Images of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors. But when this content is legal and depicts fake people, it falls into a messy, troubling gray area.

Musk claimed his AI startup had a $18 billion valuation before the latest funding round.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Meta’s AI chief Yann LeCun said a “world modeling” approach could reach human levels of intelligence, but cautioned this was still around a decade away.

Nearly 15 years after founding Quora, D’Angelo wants to reinvent the question-and answer company around AI—before it goes the way of Yahoo Answers.

One giant leap forward for technology but one mammoth step backwards in terms of advancing gender equality?