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Tech & AI

Singapore’s Vision for AI Safety Bridges the US-China Divide

The government of Singapore released a blueprint today for global collaboration on artificial intelligence safety following a meeting of AI researchers from the US, China, and Europe. The document lays out a shared vision for working on AI safety through international cooperation rather than competition. “Singapore is one of the few countries on the planet

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Stripe unveils AI foundation model for payments, reveals ‘deeper partnership’ with Nvidia

Fintech giant Stripe announced Wednesday a slew of new product launches at its annual Stripe Sessions user event. The highlights include a new AI foundation model for payments; stablecoin-powered accounts; a new Orchestration offering, and a recent migration with chip behemoth Nvidia. Stripe’s payments foundation model has been trained on tens of billions of transactions,

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Apple is actively looking at AI search for Safari

The U.S. Justice Department is suing Google (or Alphabet Inc., if you prefer), and in testimony today, Apple Senior Vice President of Services Eddy Cue dropped a bombshell in the courtroom: Apple is now “actively looking” at focusing its Safari web browser on AI search instead of Google Search. As Bloomberg reported, the revelation marks

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A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms

The US government has the capacity to dole out roughly 1.1 million permanent resident cards in the current fiscal year, which are divided into categories for family members, workers with advanced skills, and other groups based on precise rules. Lutnick originally proposed Trump’s gold card as a replacement for one of these categories, known as

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Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla

Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it’s invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth less

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The curious case of Robin Hood’s missing intro on Amazon

“In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history,” reads text shown in the very opening scene of director Ridley Scott’s 2010 film Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe. At least, it’s supposed to. However, over the past few days, this now 15-year-old take on the classic

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OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been meeting with OpenAI to discuss the agency’s use of AI, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings. The meetings appear to be part of a broader effort at the FDA to use this technology to speed up the drug approval process. “Why does it take over

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Amazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’

Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses force sensors to help it know when it makes contact with an object. One arm rearranges items in a

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Best kids deal: Save 22% on the Kindle Paperwhite Kids

SAVE $40: The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is on sale at Amazon for $139.99, down from the list price of $179.99. That’s a 22% discount. We’re well into May which means summer vacation is just a few weeks away. If the kids have reading on their summer vacation agenda, Amazon has a great deal in store

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Sonos and Ikea’s Love Affair Is Over—Grab This $19 Device While You Still Can

Folks looking for an affordable Wi-Fi speaker to fit between their Jättebo sectional and Dyvlinge swivel chair will be upset to learn that Sonos and Ikea are parting ways. After eight years of partnering on everything from an odd wall-mountable speaker in a frame to a surprisingly decent pair of bookshelf speakers, the Ikea models

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