Intel Stock Hits All-Time High After Preliminary Chip Deal With Apple
A preliminary Apple-Intel manufacturing agreement—backed by a White House push—sent Intel stock above $130 on Friday.
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AI and Crypto Czar David O. Sacks speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education at the White House. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so! And do you think I should know something? Send it to tina.nguyen+tips@theverge.com. On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total reversal in Donald Trump's policies. For the past year, he had been a vocal champion o … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read full articleA preliminary Apple-Intel manufacturing agreement—backed by a White House push—sent Intel stock above $130 on Friday.
Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’ US politics live – latest updates The White House has branded Star Wars actor Mark Hamill “a sick individual” after an AI-generated image showing Donald Trump in a shallow grave, with the words “If Only” as an overlay was posted to one of star’s social media accounts. Hamill, who played the lead character of Luke Skywalker in six movies of the iconic science fiction franchise and is a longtime critic of the US president, apologized and removed the post from his Bluesky account on Thursday. Continue reading...
Senate Banking Committee markup is planned for this month, leaving four working Senate weeks in June for floor passage, said Patrick Witt.
President Donald Trump’s White House is contemplating whether the US government should be allowed to screen the most powerful AI models before they become available to the public, a significant shift from his previously laissez-faire approach to the AI industry. In the most recent story about White House AI model vetting, the debate boils down to whether the government should intervene before frontier systems with coding or cyber capabilities get distributed to the public. That’s a not a subtle change. That is Washington asking whether the arms race to AI has evolved to the stage where ‘ship it and see […]
When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney, Steven Molo, read some of the evidence aloud, Brockman would pedantically correct him if he skipped a word, even if that word was "a" or "the." Wh … Read the full story at The Verge.
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
The technology giant met with administration officials last week to address a growing concern in Washington: insufficient computing power for artificial intelligence.
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