Rahul Jacob: DeepSeek’s big shake-up of AI holds bigger policy lessons for us

[ad_1] On 21 January, US President Donald Trump appeared with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son to announce a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) project. ā€œThis monumental undertaking is a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential under a new president,” Trump declared. Not to be outdone, Son said this amounted…

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Mint Quick Edit | Should Trump’s Stargate inspire India’s own?

[ad_1] One major announcement that Donald Trump made soon after assuming office as US president was of the country’s Stargate project.Ā  Backed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, among others, it aims to expand the artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US.Ā  The $500-billion project will start with $100 billion ploughed in, expected chiefly from Softbank.Ā  Also…

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Sam Altman’s strategic ambiguity on AI sounds a lot like doublespeak

[ad_1] In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published on Monday, Altman admitted that he’d once conjured a ā€œtotally random” date for when OpenAI would build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical threshold when AI surpasses human intelligence. It would be 2025, a decade out from the company’s founding. Altman’s candour about that mistake was momentarily…

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Artificial intelligence is losing hype

[ad_1] Silicon Valley’s tech bros are having a difficult few weeks. A growing number of investors worry that artificial intelligence (AI) will not deliver the vast profits they seek. Since peaking last month the share prices of Western firms driving the AI revolution have dropped by 15%. A growing number of observers now question the…

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Emotional ties to AI? OpenAI warns of new risks with ChatGPT Voice Mode

[ad_1] Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised concerns about the potential emotional attachment users may develop with its recently launched Voice Mode feature for ChatGPT. This warning was detailed in the company’s “System Card” for GPT-4o, a comprehensive document that examines the potential risks and safeguards associated with the AI model. Among the various risks identified,…

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Elon Musk moves court against OpenAI again; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman sued: previous case ā€˜lacked teeth’, says lawyer

[ad_1] Billionaire Elon Musk revived a lawsuit against OpenAI, giving rise to the six-year-old dispute that started with a power struggle at the San Francisco-based start-up, reported the New York Times on Monday, August 5. The new lawsuit, filed on Monday in a Northern Californian federal court, claimed that OpenAI and two of its founders,…

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