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Meta pledges to solve AI labeling problems it’s actively exacerbating.

The company has signed a voluntary code to comply with obligations under the EU’s AI Act to mark and label AI-generated content that takes effect on August 2nd. Meta unironically said it wants to help prevent “a growing array of different labels and disclosures” from confusing people and regulators, after launching its own bespoke system this month.

This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing

Weave says it quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid racking up big AI bills from tokenmaxxing.

Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget

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Apple reclaims the title of the most valuable U.S. company

It's another sign that investors are keeping some distance from companies making giant bets on AI infrastructure.

AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough

YOU AIN’T seen nothing yet. Last year America’s biggest technology companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, spent $450bn on infrastructure, much of it to power artificial intelligence. This was just an amuse-bouche. For the main course they will this year spend $900bn on chips, data centres, power and so forth, with a $1.4trn pudding to follow in 2027. To fund this feast they have borrowed more than $400bn this year. The AI capex boom is fast becoming the largest investment surge in history (see chart 1).

ChatGPT now refuses to mimic famous authors.

The OpenAI chatbot has started to push back on requests to copy the writing style of authors like Stephen King and Agatha Christie, saying it can spit out something with similar characteristics, but can’t closely imitate distinctive styles. Those disclaimers could be legally important as OpenAI faces down copyright lawsuits filed by authors.

Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng steps down, citing startup-related stress and illness

Lilian Weng said repeated illness and the pressure of building an AI startup had become physically unsustainable.

AI is coming for call center jobs.

Last week, Uber said it would be cutting 10 percent of its customer service workforce to “embrace” AI. But things are much more dire than that according to Forrester analyst Kate Leggett, who estimates that “almost half of customer service roles will be impacted by 2030.”

Jensen Huang says that AI job destruction doomers are 'exactly backward'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that AI could automate "tasks," but wouldn't eliminate jobs. He cited radiology and law as examples.

Singapore warns of economic risks if global AI boom falters

Central bank in city-state says AI models and quantum computing pose cyber security threats

Samsung's chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

As the battle over the future of AI chips plays out, the fight for top talent is also ramping up.

Anthropic, OpenAI blow past Starbucks, McDonald's amid AI boom

AI giants are suddenly generating a lot more revenue than fast-food giants.