SoftBank’s Project Izanagi faces setbacks as Intel struggles to meet demands. The company turns to TSMC for AI chip production, aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance.
Category: Corporate News
Walmart Ditches 100 Humans, Hires One AI
Walmart’s CEO, Doug McMillon, recently spilled the beans on their latest cost-cutting strategy: replacing nearly 100 human workers with generative AI. Ouch.
Meta in Talks to License Celeb Voices
Meta has signed celebs for voice AI and Google hired talent from Character.AI, possibly hinting at the push for the next big thing.
Microsoft is Burning Cash on AI with Inadequate ROI
Tech companies are investing billions in AI but not seeing proper ROI. Microsoft’s $19B concerns analysts, potentially making AI appear pretty useless so far, while companies are using the “it’s a long-term investment” argument.
OpenAI and TIME Partner for 100+ Years of Training Data
TIME magazine and OpenAI announce a strategic partnership, granting OpenAI access to TIME’s vast content archive for use in its AI models.
Rabbit R1 Met with a Botched Release
The personal assistant that many saw as the next step in the evolution of AI met with a botched release.
OpenAI Partners with Reddit
Reddit API access is now available to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, allowing it to access UGC from subreddits in real-time.
Google Announces Trillium, a TPU for AI Inferencing
Trillium is Google’s TPU for AI training and inferencing that’s powering its latest suite of AI tools and models. The 6th generation is here.
OpenAI Partners with StackOverflow for Better Responses to Developers
StackOverflow is a leading community of technical users, developers, programmers, and other specialists. ChatGPT can now access all this forum data via an API.
Amazon Announces Biggest AI Investment
Amazon expands its investment into Anthropic AI to $4 billion. This is the largest external investment by the company.