Google partners with MediaTek on enhanced TPU v9 chip development

A new paper from Google DeepMind argues that disagreements over whether AI is conscious could spill into politics, law, and public institutions.

Google is investing $75 million in A24 as part of a new AI research initiative focused on filmmaking tools.

The Consumer Technology Association, representing more than 1,200 firms including Amazon, Apple and Google, urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act without delay. Senator Cynthia Lummis followed with an on-record statement that the bill ends the 'absurdity' of developers needing lawyers to know

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For the past few years, the most visible corner of the AI market has been easy to caricature: OpenAI gets the consumer attention, Anthropic gets the developer love, Google gets the benefit of the doubt with increasingly capable models and a complementary product suite, and everyone else gets to explain why they’re not dead yet. That’s unfair, of course, but not completely wrong. In AI, attention compounds and it’s leading to outsized revenue, with both OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly rushing toward trillion-dollar-sized IPOs on the backs of billions in revenue. So it’s easy to underrate Mistral AI. Honestly, I hadn’t thought of the Paris-based company for a year. Maybe longer. But then Brian Hall announced he’s joining Mistral as CMO, and I had an Arrested Development “Her?” moment. Hall, a longtime Microsoft exec, hired me at AWS and went on to run product marketing at Google Cloud. His move prompted curiosity because Mistral doesn’t dominate developer chatter in the United States or

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A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt  could tell you, AI is a hard sell these days. Last month, he tried talking up the AI revolution during a commencement address at the University of Arizona and was loudly booed by students about to enter an AI-ravaged job market. His discombobulation was telling. Schmidt is not the only AI booster to crash out with students recently as the popular backlash grows. Every week brings a new story about some writer, publisher or academic who has torched their reputation by using an unreliable chatbot. Most US voters are opposed to the construction of vast, resource-guzzling new datacentres. A majority believe AI will negatively impact not just jobs but creativity and human relationships. In some quarters, saying that AI has any benefits at all is akin to saying that biological warfare gets a bad rap. As a New York Times column put it: “AI populism is here. An

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