Category Archives: Business

A $100 Million AI Super PAC Targeted New York Democrat Alex Bores. He Thinks It Backfired

Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead.

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Four Indicted In Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China

A federal prosecutor alleged that one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”

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Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order

The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.

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Nvidia CEO Dismisses Concerns of an AI Bubble. Investors Remain Skeptical

Record sales, a strong financial forecast, and CEO Jensen Huang’s impassioned arguments on his company’s earnings call weren’t enough to push Nvidia shares back to their October high.

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Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics

DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.

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The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions

In a closed-door workshop led by Anthropic and Stanford, leading AI startups and researchers discussed guidelines for chatbot companions, especially for younger users.

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The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Depending on foreign-made open models is both a supply chain risk and an innovation problem, experts say.

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This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.

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In Alex Karp’s World, Palantir Is the Underdog

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get to know Palantir CEO Alex Karp and dive into what his answers in a recent WIRED interview reveal about the larger beliefs driving the tech industry today.

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The US Will Prioritize Visa Processing for Fans With World Cup Tickets

In the face of heavy travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, the United States announced that soccer fans going to the World Cup will enjoy a certain priority for processing tourist visa.

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