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Business

Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money

One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.
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Business

AI Power Couple Recommits: Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with $4 billion investment

Amazon and Anthropic expanded their partnership, potentially strengthening Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure and lengthening the high-flying startup’s runway.
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Business

Next-Gen Models Show Limited Gains: AI giants rethink model training strategy as scaling laws break down

Builders of large AI models have relied on the idea that bigger neural networks trained on more data and given more processing power would show steady improvements. Recent developments are challenging that idea.
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Big AI Pursues Military Contracts: Meta and Anthropic open doors for AI in U.S. defense and national security

Two top AI companies changed their stances on military and intelligence applications.
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Robots On the Loading Dock: Tensions mount as automation transforms U.S. shipping ports

Shipping ports are the latest front in the rising tension between labor unions and AI-powered automation.
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Business

No Work for Coders: Could coding assistants take over software development?

AI coding assistants are brewing codebases that once were the sole province of human programmers. Will AI systems take over software development?
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Innovation Can’t Win: Bureaucracy chokes AI growth as lawmakers tighten grip

Politicians and pundits have conjured visions of doom to convince lawmakers to clamp down on AI. What if terrified legislators choke off innovation in AI?
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AI Bromance Turns Turbulent: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership faces strain as both seek less dependence

Once hailed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as the “best bromance in tech,” the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is facing challenges as both companies seek greater independence.
LLM leaderboard with Chinese models rising in ranks.
Business

A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs

A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution. 
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U.S. Cracks Down on AI Apps That Overpromise, Underdeliver: U.S. Federal Trade Commission launches Operation AI Comply to tackle deceptive business practices

The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.
Design layout of Sedenak Data Centre Park, Malaysia.
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Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.
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Business

Hollywood Embraces Video Generation: Lionsgate teams with Runway to develop a custom fine-tuned video model

The AI startup Runway is helping to retool Lionsgate, the producer of blockbuster movie franchises like The Hunger Games and John Wick, for the era of generated video.
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Business

Amazon Boosted by Covariant: Amazon strengthens logistics and robotics with new AI partnership

Amazon took on talent and technology from robotics startup Covariant to enhance its warehouse automation, an area critical to its core ecommerce business.
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Waymo Spotlights Safety Record: Waymo claims its robotaxis are safer than human drivers, citing new safety data

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, released an analysis of its own safety data. It suggests that the company’s self-driving cars are safer than human drivers on the same roads.
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AI-Powered Policing Goes National: Argentina launches AI unit to predict and prevent crimes

Argentina created a national law-enforcement department that will use AI to detect crimes as they’re committed, investigate them afterward, and predict them before they occur.
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