Recently, former U.S. President Trump announced a massive artificial intelligence investment project named 'Stargate', with a budget of up to $500 billion. The plan is jointly funded by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, with Trump appearing alongside the CEOs of these three companies—Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, and Masayoshi Son—at the launch event. Masayoshi Son will serve as the project's chairman, and the joint involvement of these three billionaires has attracted considerable attention. However, unexpectedly, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX...

Silicon Valley giants were once the most vocal advocates and generous financiers of clean energy investments, but they may now become the biggest villains in the renewable energy revolution. With surging energy demands from artificial intelligence, emissions from large tech companies have spiked, making their lofty decarbonization goals increasingly elusive. Tech giants, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, are pushing for greater deployment of renewable energy infrastructure and research into new forms of clean energy, but keeping up with the enormous energy demands of AI is a daunting task.

Against the backdrop of Trump's return to the White House, top entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley are quietly becoming key technological advisors to the president. Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks are among those strategizing for Trump, with their most notable point being their strong criticism of AI regulation. This group of tech elites believes that AI chatbots are emerging as a new ideological battleground. Their core concern is that large tech companies may use AI systems to propagate specific political positions, achieving a more covert and effective form of 'regulation'.

Nvidia has recently engaged in a series of collaborations with local businesses in India to promote its artificial intelligence chips and technologies. The CEO of the American chip design company, Jensen Huang, announced at an AI summit in Mumbai that Nvidia has partnered with one of India's most valuable companies, Reliance Industries, to co-establish the infrastructure for AI applications. Additionally, tech company Tech Mahindra will use Nvidia's chips and software to develop a Hindi AI model called "Indus2.0."

Recently, H2O.ai announced the launch of two new visual language models aimed at enhancing the efficiency of document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) tasks. The two models, H2OVL Mississippi-2B and H2OVL-Mississippi-0.8B, demonstrate remarkable competitiveness compared to models from large tech companies, potentially offering businesses dealing with heavy document workflows a more efficient solution.

Recently, a report from Bain & Company warned that with the surge in demand for AI semiconductors and AI smartphones and laptops, the world may face the next chip shortage. It’s worth noting that the last large-scale semiconductor shortage occurred during the pandemic, when supply chains were disrupted and demand for electronic products soared due to everyone working from home. Now, tech giants are scrambling to purchase graphics processing units (GPUs), particularly those from Nvidia. These GPUs are the secret weapon for training large AI models.

In today's rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, a global transformation in the workplace is quietly unfolding. Recently, Jim Cavanaugh, CEO of global tech service giant WWT, issued a wake-up call to business leaders during an interview with CNBC: do not 'deceive' employees in the wave of AI. Cavanaugh candidly pointed out that employees are not fools; they are well aware that AI will have a significant impact on the way work is done. He emphasized that business leaders cannot turn a blind eye to reality, nor should they tell employees that 'it's fine, nothing will change.'

Recently, an analysis by The Guardian revealed that there may be serious misleading practices by tech companies in handling the environmental impact of their AI data centers. The emission data reported by tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple significantly diverges from reality. According to this analysis, the actual emissions from these companies are 662% higher than the figures they officially disclose, and this is just the tip of the iceberg, as this study only covers data from 2020 to 2022. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjou.

Nvidia is considering joining OpenAI's $100 billion funding round, attracting tech giants including Apple and Microsoft to participate. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is expected to surpass a $100 billion valuation, thanks to ChatGPT's weekly active user base exceeding 200 million and significant growth in usage. This funding round is led by Thrive Capital, and if Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft successfully join, it will accelerate OpenAI's technological development and the application of AI across various industries. OpenAI's rise and ChatGPT's...

The California state government has partnered with tech companies to invest $250 million to support journalism and AI research, with a plan to implement this over five years, including an initial allocation of $100 million in the first year. The funding is primarily aimed at developing California news organizations and AI research projects. This initiative aims to boost local news vitality and provide job opportunities, seen as a crucial breakthrough for the survival of journalism. The agreement has sparked controversy between the tech industry and lawmakers, with the initial proposal requiring tech companies to pay a percentage of advertising revenue in exchange for linking content, which faced strong opposition. The California News Publishers Association supports the agreement, believing it will benefit the local community.

Snap and Meta are set to unveil their latest AR glasses prototypes next month, with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel releasing the fifth-generation Spectacles on September 17, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg showcasing the AR glasses codenamed Orion on September 25. However, due to the current immaturity of AR technology, neither pair of glasses will be available for public sale. Snap will distribute a small production run through partners and developers.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced plans to establish paid data usage agreements with tech companies in response to collaborations with Google and OpenAI. He criticized companies like Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity for refusing negotiations, forcing Reddit to block these firms. To protect data, Reddit has limited web crawler access and updated its robots.txt file to prevent uncontracted crawlers. This has resulted in Reddit content disappea....

According to a report by Wired magazine, several tech giants including Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce have been found using thousands of YouTube videos without permission to train their artificial intelligence models, sparking serious copyright and ethical controversies.The report reveals that these companies integrated various YouTube video captions into their AI training datasets. The affected creators range widely, including well-known bloggers like MKBHD, MrBeast, and Jacksepticeye

金融巨头高盛的一份研究通讯警告称，大型科技公司已加大资本支出以推动生成式人工智能的发展，但尚未展示可持续的商业模式。该投行估计，在未来几年将有约1万亿美元用于数据中心、半导体、电网升级和其他人工智能基础设施。

US Senators urge limitations on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google's development of large language models. Warren believes tech giants have too much power in the AI field and proposed banning them from developing cutting-edge AI technologies, calling for the splitting of Google and Amazon and restrictions on their operations.

The National Science Foundation is collaborating with 10 other government agencies and AI developers to promote President Biden's significant initiative in the artificial intelligence field. The core of this collaborative effort is the launch of the National AI Research Resource pilot program, aimed at fulfilling President Biden's executive order on AI. NAIRR will provide American researchers with AI models, computational power, datasets, software, and training. The program will focus on the application of AI in healthcare and environmental sustainability.