In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most […]
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The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has given the go-ahead to Amazon’s proposed billion-dollar iRobot acquisition, concluding that the deal “would not lead to competition concerns in the U.K.” Amazon first revealed plans to buy robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion last August, though the megabucks deal was always likely to draw scrutiny from regulators. The […]
Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition greenlighted by UK antitrust regulator by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. It could be said that last […]
The week in AI: Apple makes machine learning moves by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
I’ll admit that I’ve tiptoed around the topic a bit in Actuator due to its sudden popularity (SEO gods be damned). I’ve been in this business long enough to instantly be suspicious of hype cycles. That said, I totally get it this time around. While it’s true that various forms of machine learning and AI […]
Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Mercedes owners in the U.S. will soon add a new luxury to their already luxurious vehicles: ChatGPT. The automaker is adding OpenAI’s conversational AI agent to its MBUX infotainment system, though what it could possibly be needed for is hard to say. U.S. owners of models that use MBUX will be able to opt into […]
Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system, for some reason by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
The event horizon for when we can expect to end up in (literal) hot water when it comes to climate has come a lot closer.
VCs joining the climate race should scare the daylights out of you by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
When someone is very ill or has had surgery that interrupts ordinary ways of eating and drinking, tube feeding is life-saving necessity — but it’s cumbersome and uncomfortable to use. Luminoah aims to change this with a reinvented tube feeding device that’s more portable, discreet, and easy to use, and it has raised $6 million […]
Luminoah’s quest to reinvent tube feeding attracts new funding by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch