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The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers

An investment boom in artificial intelligence is creating a thirst for massive data centers, and a bonanza for the workers building them. It is unclear how long that boom will last, but for now, workers are cashing in on high demand for their ser…

Robots and AI are already remaking the Chinese economy

To blunt Trump’s push to reclaim global manufacturing, China’s factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster, cheaper and with fewer workers. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them

It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI this year. submitted by /u/tekz…

How the EU botched its attempt to regulate AI

The AI Act was designed to use Europe’s economic heft to force companies to create “trustworthy AI” for its 450mn consumers through a risk-based approach: banning the most harmful uses, controlling high-risk systems and lightly regulating low-ris…

An audience at a top AI conference in San Francisco was asked what startup they would short

Perplexity, an AI search browser trying to take on Google, landed at the top of the list. There was little disagreement at the conference that we are in an AI bubble. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]

OpenGuardrails: A new open-source model aims to make AI safer for real-world use

When you ask an LLM to summarize a policy or write code, you probably assume it will behave safely. But what happens when someone tries to trick it into leaking data or generating harmful content? That question is driving a wave of research into AI gua…

Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, AI chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators

The New York Times tested several chatbots and found that they produced starkly different answers, especially on politically charged issues. While they often differed in tone or emphasis, some made contentious claims or flatly hallucinated facts. As th…

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that LLMs have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Researchers found that certain LLMs can perform linguistic tasks such as sentence diagramming, detecting ambiguity, and parsing recursion, at a level comparable to human linguistics experts. The standout model, identified as “o1,” succeeded in a…

Samsung and Nvidia to build an AI megafactory

Samsung will deploy more than 50,000 of Nvidia’s most advanced graphics processing units in the new facility to embed artificial intelligence throughout its entire chip manufacturing flow. It’s also planning to leverage AI to help with chip devel…

AI agents can leak company data through simple web searches

When a company deploys an AI agent that can search the web and access internal documents, most teams assume the agent is simply working as intended. New research shows how that same setup can be used to quietly pull sensitive data out of an organizatio…