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Meta bets big on start-up Scale AI with €12 billion investment and hires its co-founder

Scale AI has helped major tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft prepare the data they use to train AI models.

Euronews

Meta invests in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for 'superintelligence' team

Meta said Thursday it is making a large investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant

The Independent UK

Meta’s ‘superintelligence’ effort with Scale AI founder highlights its scramble to keep pace in AI race

Zuckerberg is tapping a rising AI power broker in a high-stakes move to revive Meta’s generative AI ambitions after its recent Llama 4 flop and ongoing AI talent departures.

Fortune

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Samaya AI, startup selling AI tools to Wall Street, gets $43.5 million in new funding

NEA led the round for the company, which is also backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Meta AI's Yann LeCun, Two Sigma's David Siegel, and former Goldman Sachs executive Marty Chavez

Fortune

What are neural processing units (NPUs) and why are they so important to modern computing?

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so important?

LiveScience

Trump has unwittingly set off a brain drain of ‘intellectual refugees’ as U.S. applicants to U.K. jobs spike

The Trump administration's changes are prompting more Americans to consider leaving the U.S. for more freedom and stability.

Fortune

Meta's head of AI research stepping down

The head of Meta’s artificial intelligence research division said she plans to step down, vacating a high-profile position at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram at a time of intense competition in the development of AI technology

The Independent UK

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Firms And Researchers At Odds Over Superhuman AI

Hype is growing from leaders of major AI companies that "strong" computer intelligence will imminently outstrip humans, but many researchers in the field see the claims as marketing spin.

International Business Times

Meta's Chief AI scientist says "AI is not replacing people" — Humans will boss AI around, including superintelligence

Meta's Chief AI scientist seemingly contests Bill Gates' prediction about AI replacing humans, claiming that intelligent systems will work for us.

Windows Central

U.K. startup CuspAI adds AI 'godfathers' to advisory board as it hoovers up top researchers from Google DeepMind

Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun both join advisory board of CuspAI, which aims to find novel materials that can help in the fight against climate change.

Fortune

Trump’s budget cuts threaten AI research, top scientists warn

Academic research into AI is at risk from President Trump's cost-cutting, critics say.

Fortune

The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI

Grok 3’s somewhat underwhelming performance should be a wake-up call.

Fortune

AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years

Meta’s Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars

The Guardian - UK

"Woefully unjustified": Meta's AI lead scientist blasts market reactions to DeepSeek's cost-efficient model following NVIDIA's $600 billion valuation drop

Meta's lead AI scientist, Yann Lecun, says there's a "major misunderstanding" about the billion dollars invested in AI.

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International Business Times UK

'The Power of Open Source': Meta's Chief AI Exec Opens Up on DeepSeek's Disruption in the Space

It is worth noting that his statement echoes Mark Zuckerberg's desire to make Meta's AI models–specifically Llama—open-source.

International Business Times

Meta Guru Urges Europe To Gamble More On AI

Europe should take greater risks and plough more money into artificial intelligence, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told AFP at the World Economic Forum.

Top News

Trump To Address World Economic Forum Virtually From Davos

Explore Donald Trump's participation at Davos World Economic Forum, focusing on business, technology, and geopolitical challenges.

Fortune

How Mark Zuckerberg went all-in to make Meta a major AI player and threaten OpenAI’s dominance

Working with open-source models helped Llama catch up with ChatGPT; Meta stock, meanwhile, has reached all-time records.

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TechRadar

Meta's AI chief is right to call AI fearmongering 'BS' but not for the reason he thinks

The real fear of AI should be how people use it.

Fortune

How to prevent millions of invisible law-free AI agents casually wreaking economic havoc

AI developers and investors are looking to create digital economic actors, with the capacity to do just about anything.

PC Gamer

Will AI grow so powerful it can threaten us? Chief Meta scientist says: 'Pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.' Which is the attitude I would expect from any company with so much skin in the AI game

The worries around AI are about more than its intelligence.

Fortune

AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield win Nobel Prize for Physics

It's the first time that a Nobel Prize has been awarded to the field of AI.

Fortune

Elon Musk throws support behind California’s AI safety bill—‘this is a tough call and will make some people upset’

This week is the final deadline for California's landmark SB 1047 bill to pass, which would codify the first safety guardrails on AI on U.S. statute books.

Fortune

Elon Musk's $6 billion xAI fundraise shows he's serious about building an AI contender

Musk says he's building anti-woke AI for all our sake. Other AI companies also claim to be acting for humanity. But there's too much at stake to trust them.

Reason

The Great Black Pope and Asian Nazi Debacle of 2024

Exciting new AI tools are still being shaped by human beings.

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