The world’s AI superpowers differ on one key strategy: openness. Chinese leader Xi Jinping shared his philosophy on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. He called for both greater regulation of the technology and its open access. In a list of four remarks, Xi first called for a “principle of
Jason Calacanis, venture capitalist and co-host of the “All-In Podcast,” said the pace of AI progress is accelerating and made some bold predictions. “It’s happening folks,” Calacanis wrote on He argued that the field has moved faster in the last 30 days, by a dozen players, than the year before, with open source models “composite”
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race. Kimi K3, unveiled Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, at a lower cost. The company plans to release weights for
AI is changing tech careers, but it won’t eliminate the importance of a STEM degree, says Demis Hassabis. In an interview at a business conference in London, video of which was posted Wednesday, DeepMind’s CEO said that knowing the fundamentals of the software can give you an advantage in using AI. “It was absolutely necessary
Dozens of Google employees from across the country gathered in the shadow of the company’s Mountain View headquarters on Thursday, holding signs that read “Googlers for job security” and demanding greater protections against layoffs. By noon, nearly 100 workers filled a grassy stretch of campus, flanked by the Googleplex on one side and the broad
SpaceX canceled its first Starship launch since its massive initial public offering in June. On Thursday, SpaceX withdrew from a launch attempt of its upgraded Starship rocket after an engine problem caused an automatic shutdown before liftoff at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that