Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to several media outlets. He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported at the time. Burns was reportedly “ousted” from the job in
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Anthropic can finally start writing checks to a group of book authors and publishers who sued the AI lab for copyright infringement. A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright class action lawsuit, Reuters reported. Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
When de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences revealed last year that it was attempting to “resurrect” the dire wolf from genetic material found in fossils, we argued that, despite the controversy surrounding the project, the company was building valuable technologies that justify its $10.2 billion valuation. Now, about 16 months later, the startup is in talks to
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its internal Gemini models run more efficiently. The new chip, internally called “Frozen v2,” is scheduled to launch sometime in 2028, The Information reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the chip could be six to 10 times more efficient than Google’s
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the building blocks of AI interoperability, providing AI models with a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that allows a chatbot to access your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, rather than engineers creating custom pipes for each connection. Next
