The boom in artificial intelligence has minted billions in (paper) wealth for tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. But there’s an overlooked set of winners as well: utilities and energy companies. …
A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check
Call it the end of the beginning of the A.I. boom. Since mid-March, the financial pressure on several signature artificial intelligence start-ups has taken a toll. Inflection AI, which raised $1.5 …
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How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor seems an unlikely A.I. optimist. The labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is best known for his in-depth studies showing how much technology and trade have eroded …
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In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
When it comes to the artificial intelligence that powers chatbots like ChatGPT, China lags behind the United States. But when it comes to producing the scientists behind a new generation of humanoid …
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Sam Altman is over GPT-4: ‘I think it kind of sucks’
Generative artificial intelligence might be driving the markets and forcing businesses to prepare for a new potential future, but the CEO of OpenAI isn’t real impressed about where the technology …
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The Department of Homeland Security Is Embracing A.I.
The Department of Homeland Security has seen the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence firsthand. It found a trafficking victim years later using an A.I. tool that conjured an image of …
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New US-Russian crew heads to space station
A SpaceX rocket with three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has begun its trip to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida. The mission will last six months. Space is one of the few …
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Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups
Last May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce. It was the beginning of an astonishing funding …
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Bioengineering Beyond Health
In previous posts in this series (see the OODA Special Report: Executive’s Guide To the Revolution in Biology and Bioengineering, Health and Business) we reviewed foundational knowledge on …
OODA Special Report: Executive’s Guide To The Revolution in Biology
An update to our report on what executives need to know about the business impact of biological sciences. As a technologist it has been very exciting to watch how advanced capabilities in IT have …
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