Universal basic income (UBI) has emerged as a potential solution to mitigate the economic disruptions caused by AI and automation, with proponents proposing various funding mechanisms like taxing income, consumption, land value, and automation itself, while emphasizing the need for sustainable policies, education/training investments, and addressing social-psychological factors beyond economic …
WEKA unveils GPU-accelerated storage solutions certified for NVIDIA AI platforms, eliminating bottlenecks to maximize GPU utilization and providing validated reference architectures for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and BasePOD deployments.
Hyena Edge, a convolution-based AI model designed by Liquid AI using automated optimization, outperforms Transformer models in computational efficiency and quality on smartphones, demonstrating faster speed, lower memory usage, and better language modeling performance on a Samsung device.
Rowboat revolutionizes workflow automation by empowering users to effortlessly build AI-powered multi-agent systems, seamlessly integrating with OpenAI's Agents SDK, OpenRouter, and LiteLLM, offering a streamlined experience through an intuitive HTTP API or Python SDK.
Dosidicus is an innovative AI-powered digital pet that mimics neurogenesis and learning, featuring a neural network that autonomously makes decisions, detects food, and creates new neurons, catering to its evolving needs like hunger, sleepiness, and happiness across seven distinct personality types.
Major Chinese tech giants like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent hoarded billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia's H20 AI chips, designed for sale in China, in anticipation of U.S. export restrictions, aiming to stockpile around 1 million chips before the curbs were imposed in April.
By 2025, voice AI agents will revolutionize customer service, replacing traditional IVR systems with human-like interactions, as 98% of organizations plan to implement these flexible, customizable, compliant, and accessible AI solutions within a year, driving widespread automation across industries.
A renowned AI researcher's startup Mechanize, aiming to automate all jobs using AI agents, has sparked backlash over its ambitious mission to replace human workers and potential conflict with the founder's AI research institute Epoch.
Asimov's vision of AI as devices that can perform intelligent tasks will liberate humans from monotonous work, but we must proactively address the challenges AI may bring to society to mitigate potential unpleasantness.
President Trump's ambitious plan to establish AI data centers in Texas faces potential setbacks due to a new GOP-led bill that could add extensive regulatory reviews, raising concerns about the additional power demands on the state's already strained power grid.