Author: Advanced AI Editor

The leaders of OpenAI and Nvidia plan to pledge support for billions of dollars in UK data centre investments when they head to the country next week at the same time as President Donald Trump, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The two companies are teaming up with London-based data centre business Nscale Global Holdings on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are part of a delegation of US executives expected to visit the country. OpenAI is poised to spend billions of dollars…

MIT Police is investigating several incidents of hateful messages and images on campus over the last week, many of them celebrating violence.The university’s president says in two cases, they found hand-drawn swastikas as well as a sign wishing violence on a conservative non-profit.“This is not just a Jewish problem, this is, you know, many people who feel like they feel a little unsafe on campus if they speak their views,” said Archie Gottesman, co-founder of JewBelong.JewBelong is a non-profit that’s bringing awareness to the increase of antisemitism, especially on college campuses.The group put up billboards in Cambridge recently, calling on…

Jeremy Randall (B.S. ’00), current director of advancement services at Howard, built a good portion of his leadership skills as a teacher for DC Public Schools through Teach for America. He also coached basketball and lived in the same neighborhood among the students. Randall enjoyed making a positive impact on the children and on his community. As someone who has mixed service into much of what he does, he wanted to continue making that kind of impact on the community at a larger scale, and found his way back to Howard. Q: What motivated you to build your leadership at…

The “Big Four” are resetting their old ways of hiring. Thanks to the moves made by the likes of Accenture. Starting 1 September, Accenture’s former Americas CEO Manish Sharma is the new global chief services officer heading “reinvention servicesAccentureAccenture Changes Growth Model to Reinvent Itself for the Age of AI” for the tech-consultancy firm. For many there, this signals more layoffs to come.  But for professional-services firms such as EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC, the news only reinforces their plan of hiring “outsiders” as partners in their firms. According to an analyst, more than half of new partner hires at…

Google has unveiled fresh details about its playful yet powerful Nano Banana AI, a new image generation and editing model integrated into the Gemini app. Developed by Google DeepMind, the tool is sparking online frenzy for its ability to turn everyday pictures into imaginative, high-quality visuals.According to a Google blog post, Nano Banana goes beyond simple photo filters. Users can now keep a person or pet consistent across edits, merge multiple images, alter specific details while preserving the rest, and even borrow styles from one object to apply to another. In short, the update promises more control and creativity than…

On September 12, Guangdong Tuosida Technology Co., Ltd. (300607.SZ, hereinafter referred to as “Tuosida”) held a global open day event at its headquarters in Dongguan, where it unveiled its first embodied intelligent humanoid robot, “Xiao Tuo.” The company’s chairman, Wu Fengli, stated that while continuing to consolidate and expand its main business, the company will focus on high-end intelligent equipment and promote the application of artificial intelligence technology in manufacturing scenarios.According to the Economic Observer reporter on site, “Xiao Tuo,” equipped with the Zhipu AI large model, possesses the ability to perform complex task reasoning using a thinking chain, enabling…

The magazine estimates Chen’s net worth at $18 billion, which stems from the value of his firm. Edwin Chen, CEO and founder of Surge AI. Screenshot from Youtube/20VC with Harry Stebbings Launched in 2020 by Chen without external funding, Surge now works with more than one million contractors, by his count, supplying high-quality datasets to clients including Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.Similar to Scale AI, founded by the world’s youngest self-made billionaire Alexandr Wang, Surge has ridden the wave of tech giants and big startups rushing to train artificial intelligence models to quickly become one of the top-earning data-labeling firms worldwide.What…

Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes from Penske Media Corporation (PMC), which owns industry publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Vibe, and Artforum. While Penske’s suit is the first to target Google and its parent company Alphabet over showing AI-generated summaries in search, both publishers and authors have sued other AI companies over related copyright concerns. Google also is also facing an antitrust complaint over AI Overviews in Europe. “As a leading global publisher, we have a…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are set to join President Trump in the U.K., with the deal forming part of a wider package of U.S. corporate investment In sum – what to know: Billions pledged for UK AI buildout – Nvidia and OpenAI are set to announce multi-billion-dollar investments in U.K. data centers during President Trump’s visit, working with operator Nscale. Part of wider U.S. tech push – The deal comes amid larger U.S. corporate investments and UK government incentives through AI Growth Zones for digital infrastructure. Nvidia and OpenAI are reportedly preparing to invest billions…

A magazine publisher is accusing Google’s AI summaries of using its work without consent. Penske Media, which owns Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety, has sued the tech giant in federal court in Washington, D.C., saying that its artificial intelligence (AI) search summaries are reducing its web traffic, Reuters reported Saturday (Sept. 13). The report noted that the suit is the first time a major American publisher has sued Google over the AI-generated summaries that have come to top its search results. In this case, Penske is accusing Google of only including publishers’ websites in search results if it can also…