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He called for an AI slowdown, then told investors he’d race ahead

SAN FRANCISCO — After Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei released a 3,800-word essay that called for the artificial intelligence industry to “slow down” to reduce the chance of disaster, two of his top rivals in the AI race quickly agreed.

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You could be forgiven for reading recent headlines about massive and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities in the internet’s core infrastructure and thinking: Stop the web, I want to log off.

How NVIDIA and Pinterest Power Real-Time Visual AI

Pinterest and NVIDIA partnered on Blackwell GPUs to scale multimodal vision-language AI for 640 million users while cutting costs and latency

One Tech Tip: How to get started with AI agents, and which are best for specific tasks

Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents.

Samsung Keeps Shattering Profit Records as AI Boom Lifts Chip Demand

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said Thursday that its operating profit for the last quarter reached a record 107.4 trillion won ($80.5 billion), fueled by surging demands for its computer memory chips used in artificial intelligence systems.

Epic is using AI to help build Unreal Engine.

Epic’s VP of development, Marcus Wassmer, told This Week in Videogames that “we are definitely using AI to develop code and features for Unreal Engine.” Wassmer says that the UE team has seen benefits like “faster” development of features, and the ability for engineers to “explore ideas” that they haven’t had “the time to tackle.”

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

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This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Microsoft cuts capex forecast on AI capacity delays

CFO Amy Hood cited delays in third-party capacity as Wall Street scrutinizes returns on AI spending.

Google's Search revenue miss raises a big existential question

In its Q3 earnings, Google said its AI investments are leading to more searches than ever, yet it's not making money at the same rate.

Senior official at Dartmouth College resigns over AI use

A top administrator at Dartmouth College resigned after a faculty committee determined that he had improperly failed to disclose the use of artificial intelligence in some of his academic and public writing, the school announced Wednesday.

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