Amazon’s proposed $50 billion investment in OpenAI reportedly has some conditions attached. As The Information reported Wednesday (Feb. 25), sources in contact with OpenAI executives say the decision to invest could depend on whether the artificial intelligence (AI) startup goes public, or if it achieves...
Elon Musk says AI will eventually become so advanced that it will lead to worldwide abundance. The multibillionaire businessman made these remarks last week on the podcast Moonshots With Peter Diamandis, saying that artificial intelligence’s (AI) advancements will bring about a world in which people...
OpenAI has completed its restructuring, pushing longtime benefactor Microsoft’s valuation north of $4 trillion. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced Tuesday (Oct. 28) that it had transformed its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation. The new arrangement gives Microsoft a 27% stake — worth...
When it comes to salaries, today’s top AI talent are enjoying unprecedented paychecks. That’s according to a report Friday (Aug. 1) by Ars Technica, which cites the example of Matt Deitke, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher offered $250 million — over four years — to...
January 08, 2025
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on Wednesday (Jan. 8) criticized prevailing definitions of artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that continued scaling of text-based large language models alone will not suffice. During a fireside chat at CES in Las Vegas, the Frenchman, winner of the Turing Award — computing’s Nobel Prize — disagreed with OpenAI […]
January 06, 2025
Google DeepMind announced Monday (Jan. 6) that it is creating a new team to work on “massive” generative models that would “simulate the world.” These models represent the next stage...
February 27, 2026
Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said the industry is decades away from developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). In an interview with Fast Company posted Friday (Feb. 27), Ng said he defines AGI as AI that can perform any intellectual task that humans can, such as learning to drive a truck or writing a PhD thesis. […]
February 26, 2026
Amazon’s proposed $50 billion investment in OpenAI reportedly has some conditions attached. As The Information reported Wednesday (Feb. 25), sources in contact with OpenAI executives say the decision to invest...
January 14, 2026
Elon Musk says AI will eventually become so advanced that it will lead to worldwide abundance. The multibillionaire businessman made these remarks last week on the podcast Moonshots With Peter...
October 28, 2025
OpenAI has completed its restructuring, pushing longtime benefactor Microsoft’s valuation north of $4 trillion. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced Tuesday (Oct. 28) that it had transformed its for-profit arm...