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Amazon’s CEO envisions an “agentic future” in which AI robots, or agents, replace humans working in the company’s offices. In a memo to employees made public by Amazon on Tuesday, CEO Andy Jassy said he expects the company to reduce its corporate workforce in as soon as the next few years, as it leans more heavily on…
The US Department of Defence on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract to put generative artificial intelligence (AI) to work for the military. San Francisco-based OpenAI will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains”, according to the department’s posting of awarded contracts. The programme…
How scammers are using AI to create fake job applicants – CBS News Watch CBS News Artificial intelligence is being used to create realistic video and audio to impersonate people, in some cases looking for love or deceiving companies looking to hire. In a 2024 study, half of the businesses surveyed said they’d experienced AI…
Newswise — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a data factory — when NIF’s high-energy-density physics experiments go off in the blink of an eye, valuable scientific data is the product. LLNL already leverages AI tools to manage this data, using them to improve predictive modeling capabilities and transform optics inspection…
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president at the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday made a pitch for his country to manufacture the most advanced chips in…
Newswise — REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 9, 2025 — The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute today announced that free registration to attend “AIAS 2025: the Chen Institute Symposium for AI Accelerated Science” on October 27-28th in San Francisco is now open at www.AIAS2025.org. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical…
Years ago, when I started writing about Silicon Valley’s efforts to replace workers with artificial intelligence, most tech executives at least had the decency to lie about it. “We’re not automating workers, we’re augmenting them,” the executives would tell me. “Our A.I. tools won’t destroy jobs. They’ll be helpful assistants that will free workers from…
The Science Newswise — Structural defects that form during additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, are a barrier to some applications of this technology. Researchers used diagnostic tools and machine learning to develop a new method for detecting and predicting defects in 3D printed materials. This method could transform the 3D printing process. The…
Canada’s new minister of artificial intelligence said Tuesday he’ll put less emphasis on AI regulation and more on finding ways to harness the technology’s economic benefits. In his first speech since becoming Canada’s first-ever AI minister, Evan Solomon said Canada will move away from “over-indexing on warnings and regulation” to make sure the economy benefits…
The Food and Drug Administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, one of several top priorities laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA. Another initiative involves a review of chemicals and other “concerning ingredients” that appear in U.S. food but…
