Artificial Intelligence
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What Suno’s $5.4 billion valuation says about the future of AI and music—and what remains uncertain
Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In today’s issue: The small business owners managing whole armies of AI employees…Meta keeps delaying the release of its new AI Model to developers…How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits. Yesterday, AI music generator Suno announced a new $400 million funding round…
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AI may already be adding hundreds of billions to the economy—without showing up in the data
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…The AI economy has a measurement gap…Anthropic files IPO paperwork…Meta bets on subscriptions and enterprise to monetize AI…and AI-generated fake citations are infiltrating scientific literature. When it comes to measuring the economic impact of AI, no one can agree on where to start. Listen to the…
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Tokenmaxxing is over. That’s because it never measured what really counts to see ROI from AI
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. It’s Jeremy here, filling in for Sharon who is on vacation. In this edition…CNN sues Perplexity…IBM and RedHat form $5 billion bug patching project…Snowflake signs a $6 billion deal with AWS…and the White House gives U.S. intelligence agencies $9 billion to build their own AI chip cluster. Just…
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Pope Leo’s ‘AI encyclical’ says a lot. But critics say it misses the mark
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…The Pope takes on AI…Microsoft becomes the latest company to “toll gate” some of its systems…OpenAI solves an Erdös problem (for real)…and that sound you hear is the cognitive dissonance in JD Vance’s head. When the American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Pope last year, he…
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Anthropic lands in London as AI-powered coding—and the anxieties around it—go mainstream
Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In today’s issue: Anthropic’s Claude comes to London…OpenAI’s imminent IPO…Google DeepMind’s union battle…and worldwide AI spending on track to hit $2.59 trillion this year. Most of Anthropic’s leadership team has hopped across the pond this week. The AI lab is…
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The times they are a-changin’: Washington suddenly warms to regulating AI
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…momentum builds for U.S. AI regulation…Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI…Andrej Karpathy goes to Anthropic…Google debuts a “Co-Scientist”…and are humans the limiting factor when it comes to deploying AI? I spent much of the past week in Washington, D.C., where, when it comes to AI, change…
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The AI boom sidelined sustainability. Two researchers want to change that
Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In today’s issue: A new effort to bring sustainability back into the AI conversation…Cerebras prices IPO above expected range…Anthropic is now courting small business owners…and court filing shows Sam Altman has an over $2 billion stake in companies that dealt with OpenAI. Over the past…
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Chatbots are becoming mental health tools before they are ready
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for Jeremy Kahn today. In this edition: The risks of using AI chatbots for mental health…Amazon’s AI usage metrics are backfiring…Thinking Machines Lab is building an AI that collaborates…AI is starting to help hackers find software flaws. Millions of people are turning to…
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Anthropic’s SpaceX compute deal comes as AI data center backlash grows—fueled by both real grievances and conspiracy theories
Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition: U.S. and China pursue AI guardrails to handle race to build powerful AI systems…How a congressional primary became a proxy battle over AI…The reggae band in a nightmare battle against AI slop remixes. I’ve spent a good deal of my time at…
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Musk’s court fight against OpenAI produces more heat than light on the control of advanced AI
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI…In this edition: Sparks fly as Musk and Brockman testify in battle over OpenAI’s restructuring…the White House does a 180 degree U-turn on AI regulation and may begin reviewing AI models prior to release…OpenAI and Anthropic both target PE-backed companies with new joint ventures…a breakthrough in a foundation model…