Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
Google has unveiled Ironwood, a colossal seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed for inference, boasting unparalleled computational power over 24 times greater than the world's largest supercomputer, marking a groundbreaking leap in energy-efficient inference capabilities.
In a groundbreaking collaboration, Ai2 and Google Cloud have jointly invested $20 million to establish the Cancer AI Alliance, leveraging AI's potential to accelerate cancer research through shared models and secure data analytics powered by Google's cloud infrastructure.
Google's Ironwood AI processor, designed for its Gemini AI models and simulated reasoning, unleashes an astounding 42.5 Exaflops of computing power through clusters of up to 9,216 liquid-cooled chips with enhanced interconnect, surpassing previous Google TPUs in speed and efficiency.
Ex-Google AI Chief Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), backed by $1 billion, is tapping Google Cloud's powerful TPU chips in its quest to develop safe, superintelligent AI systems, marking another AI computing deal between Google and a former employee's startup.
IBM has launched the z17 mainframe, engineered specifically for AI and generative AI workloads, featuring high-capacity Telum II processors, compatibility with IBM's Spyre accelerator chips, and new performance management and operating system tools.
Nvidia, a leader in AI chips, faces challenges navigating Trump's trade tensions and tariffs that threaten its global supply chain and exports to China, prompting CEO Jensen Huang to fortify the company's dominance through expanding research and talent pipelines worldwide.
A new study reveals a striking trust gap between AI experts, who are upbeat about the technology's potential, and a wary public anxious about AI's impacts and concerned over its responsible regulation by governments and companies.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
A pioneering nonprofit, Sage Future, has deployed AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic into a virtual realm, where they ingeniously raised funds for Helen Keller International's mission of providing vitamin A supplements to children, showcasing the potential and limitations of AI in charitable endeavors.