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Scale AI signs a US DOD prototype contract for “Thunderforge”, to use AI agents for planning and operations; a source says it is a multimillion-dollar deal (www.cnbc.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Turing Award Winners Sound Alarm on Hasty AI Deployment (slashdot.org)
2025-3-6 AI

After Qualcomm unveiled its X85 modem, CEO Cristiano Amon says it creates a “huge delta” in performance over Apple and is “the first modem that has so much AI” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-3-5 AI Apple

Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-3-5 China AI

Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe AI deployment, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” (www.ft.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work played a vital role in the rise of AI, including ChatGPT (www.nytimes.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting emotional connections to the voice assistant (arstechnica.com)
2025-3-5 AI

London-based Quantexa, which develops anti-money laundering tech, raised a $175M Series F at a $2.6B valuation as it expands its AI data curation business (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 AI London

A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the sourcing cited for counterpoints wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom, and political labels can be confusing (www.niemanlab.org)
2025-3-5 AI

Users Report Emotional Bonds With Startlingly Realistic AI Voice Demo (slashdot.org)
2025-3-5 AI

YouTube Warns Creators an AI-Generated Video of Its CEO is Being Used For Phishing Scams (news.slashdot.org)
2025-3-5 AI YouTube

The Los Angeles Times removes its AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut (www.thedailybeast.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Source: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire Weights & Biases, whose tools help developers build AI apps, for ~$1.7B; Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25B in 2023 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Opera Adds an Automated AI Agent To Its Browser (slashdot.org)
2025-3-5 AI Browser

Sources: Ilya Sutskever told associates that he isn't developing advanced AI using the methods used at OpenAI and has identified a “different mountain to climb” (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Sources: Assured, whose AI tools automate insurance claims, raised equity funding in a round with Iconiq and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the company at about $1B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-5 AI Insurance Equity

Source: Google plans to launch its rumored “Pixie” AI assistant on the Pixel 10 as “Pixel Sense”, using data from Google apps to provide contextual predictions (www.androidauthority.com)
2025-3-5 Google AI

Judges Are Fed Up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-3-5 AI

Internal email: Amazon has formed a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman (www.reuters.com)
2025-3-5 Amazon AI

Google unveils AI-based Scam Detection in Google Messages in English, Android features like live location sharing in the Find My app, and new Pixel features (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-5 Android Google AI

Google expands Android AI scam detection to more Pixel devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-3-5 Android Google AI

Source: Amazon is building a new “hybrid reasoning” AI model, slated for a June launch under the Nova brand, hoping it can be more price-efficient than rivals (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-5 Amazon AI

Swap, which uses AI to help DTC, e-commerce brands with inventory management, raised a $40M Series B led by Iconiq Growth and plans an international expansion (www.businessinsider.nl)
2025-3-5 AI

Google Releases SpeciesNet, an AI Model Designed To Identify Wildlife (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-3-5 Google AI

NYC-based Aescape, which makes AI-powered massage robots to be deployed in 60 Equinox gyms, raised $83M led by Valor Equity, a source says at a ~$250M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-4 AI Robot Equity

After Trump imposes new tariffs on China, its government adds 15 US companies to its export control list, including drone maker Skydio and a16z-backed Shield AI (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-4 Trump China AI Drone

Amazon to launch new AI reasoning model in June this year: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-4 Amazon AI

Nothing unveils the $379 Phone 3A and $459 3A Pro, both with 6.77" displays, Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, and new AI tools to help organize files, shipping this month (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-4 AI

MWC 2025: Nothing Phone (3a), (3a) Pro debut with triple-camera setup, refreshing design, and a touch of personalised AI (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-4 AI

Anthropic raises $3.5 billion in funds at $61.5 billion value to build next-gen AI models (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-4 AI

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