Nvidia has just completed the largest acquisition in its history. The chipmaker buys assets at Groqa nine-year-old AI startup that designs ultra-fast inference chips, for $20 billion in cash. The deal shows how aggressive the race for dominance in AI computing has become, especially as Nvidia is flexing its massive cash reserve to lock in…
A new lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court highlights the legal risks associated with AI-based meeting assistants that offer transcription and speaker identification services on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The complaint, filed by Illinois resident Katelin Cruz, alleges that California technology company Fireflies.AI Corp. illegally collects and stores biometric voice data of individuals…
DP Technology – the developer of a suite of AI tools used by researchers for work ranging from drug design to battery development – has raised more than 800 million yuan ($114 million) in Series C funding to expand research and development (R&D) and hire talent. Beijing-based startup AI-for-Science (AI4S) said on Wednesday that the…
For years, purchasing managers have been promised a future in which technology would finally make their work easier. Instead, most AI projects remained in “pilot purgatory,” with good ideas that never really scaled. Industry 4.0 changes that. Reflexive and agentic AI is no longer experimental. This becomes central to how procurement does its work every…
Clockwise from top left: rabbinical students Dani Pattiz, Aiden Englander, Adrian Marcos, Micah Glickman and Denise Blumenfeld. Image by Louis Keene; ChatGPT photo via Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images By Louis Keene December 23, 2025 Denise Blumenfeld’s AI learning tool doesn’t have all the answers — or at least it’s not so eager to give them. Instead,…
“We will not use the Taser today. We have guests with us,” Frank* said, referring to the undisclosed “punishment.” mentioned for those who have not completed the required reading before coming. Berkeley Rationalist Reading Groups occur weekly, with each event post always alluding to this mysterious penalty. A Brief History of the Rationalists Although not…
In 2024, the EFF wrote our first blog on what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, technology has proliferated at a worrying rate. For what? The most popular generative AI tool for writing police reports is Axon’s Draft One, and Axon also happens to be the largest provider of…
Good morning. An AI takeover of finance jobs does not appear imminent, experts say. My Fortune Her colleague Emma Burleigh delves deeper into this topic in her new report: “Is AI really killing jobs in finance and banking? Experts say Wall Street layoffs may be more hype than buyout – for now.” For example, despite…
The automation technology landscape has evolved from rules-based automation to machine learning, GenAI and Agentic AI. Agentic AI marks a pivotal moment as businesses prepare for change and technology leaders restructure their internal IT operations to accommodate this change and drive business growth. Agentic AI helps businesses move from experimentation to execution and create measurable…
The Pentagon is now armed to the teeth with “cutting-edge AI systems, based on the Grok family of models,” according to a report. press release published Monday. Are you shaking now, ISIS? Does the word “Grok” send shivers down your spine, Tren De Aragua? This expansion of what the release calls America’s “AI Arsenal” is…