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Amazon suspends drone deliveries in the US after an accident at a testing facility– BC

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Amazon has suspended testing of its delivery drones following an accident involving two of its models. according to Bloomberg. It’s the latest setback for Amazon’s embattled Prime Air program, which aims to deliver about 500 million packages a year to customers by the end of the decade. Bloomberg reports that two Amazon drones crashed in […]

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OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever Believes Superintelligent AI Will Be ‘Unpredictable’– BC

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Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI speak on a variety of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference, on Friday afternoon before accepting an award for his contributions to the field. Sutskever gave his predictions for a “superintelligent” AI, an AI more capable than humans at many tasks, which he believes will be achieved at some

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Former X Policy Chief Joins Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity– BC

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X’s former senior policy chief accepted a job at Tools for Humanity, the company building the technology to support the World Network (formerly Worldcoin). Nick Pickles, previously head of global affairs at Elon Musk’s social media platform X, will serve as chief policy officer at Tools for Humanity, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman co-founded five

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OpenAI reportedly plans to launch its Orion AI model in December– BC

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OpenAI reportedly plans to launch its next frontier AI model, codenamed Orion within the company, by December this year. The edge reported on Thursday. Unlike previous releases, the company plans to roll out the model gradually to trusted partners before a broader rollout through ChatGPT. An OpenAI spokesperson tells britcommerce that the report is not

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Meta’s Yann LeCun says concerns about the existential threat of AI are “complete nonsense”– BC

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AI pioneer Yann LeCun doesn’t believe artificial intelligence is really about to become intelligent. LeCun, professor at New York University, principal investigator of Meta and winner of the prestigious AM Turning Award – has been open about his skepticism before, e.g. tweeting that before we worry about controlling superintelligent AI, “we need to have the

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A Russian warlord said he will bring Cybertrucks to Ukraine; some experts think that’s reckless– Brit Commerce

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In August, a Russian warlord posted a video on Telegram showing a pair of Cybertrucks patrolling a highway in Chechnya, apparently armed with heavy machine guns. Leaving aside the (for now) unanswered questions about how the vehicles were obtained, Wired thought it was worth investigating whether a Cybertruck really it makes sense as “technical,” the

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has been planning his comeback– Brit Commerce

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TO New Financial Times profile Mayayoshi Son’s video begins with the SoftBank CEO seemingly hitting rock bottom, staring at his “ugly” face on Zoom and saying to himself, “I haven’t done anything I can be proud of.” In fact, Son largely disappeared from public view after SoftBank’s Vision Fund suffered huge losses on investments such

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Qualcomm may be trying to buy Intel– Brit Commerce

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Chipmaker Qualcomm is reportedly trying to buy rival Intel. The Wall Street Journal He broke the news late on Friday that Qualcomm had approached Intel with a proposal for an acquisition. The New York Times after corroborated the storyadding that no official offer has been made. Even if there were an offer, it’s unclear whether

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