Amazon CEO raises security concerns over Anthropic models, triggering export restrictions

Arizona's AI-driven data center growth strains energy and water resources, prompting regulatory actions and necessitating sustainable solutions. The post Arizona emerges as test case for AI’s energy and water challenges appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on intellectual-property and misuse grounds. The arrangement, detailed this week by Bloomberg, hands Microsoft a position no other American AI vendor holds: […] The post Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t. appeared first on AI News.

Dream's AI cybersecurity pivot highlights the growing importance of safeguarding critical infrastructure, amid evolving geopolitical tech risks. The post Dream raises $260M at $3B valuation to build AI-powered cybersecurity for critical infrastructure appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

We’ve had OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Palantir enter the legal vertical. Perplexity – which has dabbled in our field before – is now going into ...

Is it better to persuade or to confront? French leader Emmanuel Macron is opting for the royal treatment with Donald Trump at Versailles, what with a dinner to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the King of France's support for the birth of a new nation. It's all about keeping the US president on board: on Ukraine, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and more. But will flattery work when it comes to the AI revolution?

As companies integrate AI and hire fewer employees, a shift toward a ‘gig economy’ will commence In 2024, the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it would cut hundreds of customer service roles and begin using an artificial intelligence chatbot instead. The move was expected to save the company millions. But a year later, after customers complained about the degraded quality of customer service, Klarna began to quietly recruit human customer service agents back. At first glance, the reversal appeared to be a victory for human workers in the age of AI. The reality was more complex. Instead of bringing on full-time customer service agents, who Klarna contracts through an outside agency, it instead brought on workers in what Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has described as “an Uber type of set-up”. Now, an AI chatbot continues to handle most of customers’ basic queries, while a growing number of gig workers handle the more advanced ones. “Just like somebody can go and drive

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

Enterprise AI adoption has taken off at breakneck speed. The organisational mindset has shifted from whether to invest in AI to how quickly it’s possible to turn experimentation into measurable business outcomes, and that requires a parallel change in the adoption map. For years, enterprise technology trod a familiar path: new initiatives require larger teams, […] The post How companies are scaling AI initiatives without expanding headcount appeared first on AI News.