Author: Advanced AI Bot

SAN JOSE — The Nvidia AI conference in downtown San Jose triggered an “unprecedented” economic boom in the form of a visitor surge that bolstered an array of merchants throughout the city’s urban core.Hotels and restaurants were buoyed by the influx of visitors for the Nvidia 2025 GTC conference for several days in March, according to a new report released by the San Jose Downtown Association.“Visitor foot traffic and spending soared during the weeklong event, which brought together thousands of global leaders and innovators in artificial intelligence,” the Downtown Association stated in its report.The event helped set new benchmarks for…

The global market rout on Thursday, sparked by President Donald Trump’s announcement of widespread tariffs, had an outsized effect on fintech companies and credit card issuers that are closely tied to consumer spending and credit.Affirm, which offers buy now, pay later purchasing options, plunged 19%, while stock trading app Robinhood slid 10% and payments company PayPal fell 8%. American Express and Capital One each tumbled 10%, and Discover was down more than 8%.President Trump on Wednesday laid out the U.S. “reciprocal tariff” rates that more than 180 countries and territories, including European Union members, will face under his sweeping new trade…

We missed this earlier: Social media conglomerate Meta is involved in revenue-sharing agreements with hosts of its Llama Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, revealed court filings related to an ongoing copyright lawsuit, Kadrey vs. Meta. While the case itself deals with Meta’s alleged usage of a vast quantity of data from pirated e-books to train Llama, proceedings before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on March 21 saw plaintiffs’ attorneys noting that the company “shares a percentage of the revenue” that the AI model hosts generate from Llama users. The court redacts the names of the…

The increasing prevalence of chatbots like ChatGPT has lead to difficulties in schools and colleges as professors try to figure out how to balance students’ use of AI with their need for learning. Now, Anthropic is rolling out a new tool it hopes will be a positive step in the use of AI for both students and teachers: a version of the Claude chatbot specifically designed for use in educational environments. Claude for Education, launched on April 2, features a Learning mode which encourages users to reason their way through a question rather than just giving them an answer. The…

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Enthusiasm for AI Development Is Outpacing Discussions on Safety Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • April 3, 2025     Image: Shutterstock Google DeepMind executives outlined an approach to artificial general intelligence safety, warning of “severe harm” that can “permanently destroy humanity” if safeguards are not put in place before advanced artificial intelligence systems emerge.See Also: Capturing the cybersecurity dividend A 145-page paper forecasts that AGI could arrive by 2030, potentially capable of performing at the 99th percentile of skilled adults in a wide range of non-physical tasks. The company called…

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has just completed the largest private tech funding round in history — raising $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. The deal, led by Japan’s SoftBank with backing from Microsoft and other investors, solidifies OpenAI as one of the world’s most valuable private companies, trailing only SpaceX and rivaling TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. A historic deal in tech funding The scale of this funding round is unprecedented. Before OpenAI, the largest private tech deal was Ant Group’s $14 billion raise in 2018. This new funding more than doubles that record and highlights the surging investor enthusiasm…

Amazon is testing a new “Buy for Me” button that will let you purchase products from third-party websites without leaving the e-commerce giant’s mobile app. The feature is powered by agentic AI, allowing the company to purchase items on your behalf.Last month, Amazon rolled out a test that directs you to other brands’ websites for products it doesn’t sell. But now, instead of directing you to the website to fill out your payment details and shipping address, “Buy for Me” is supposed to do all the work for you. The feature runs on Amazon’s Nova AI system, which now includes…

Runway AI Inc. today announced that it has closed a $308 million funding round led by General Atlantic. The growth equity firm was joined by several other investors including Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, SoftBank Group Corp. and Nvidia Corp. The chipmaker also backed Runway’s previous $141 million funding round in 2023. Bloomberg reported that the artificial intelligence startup is now worth more than $3 billion. Runway’s latest raise is not unexpected. Word of the Series D investment first emerged last July, when The Information reported that Runway was in talks with General Atlantic about new funding. The investment comes a day…

arXiv:2504.01850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nowadays, developers increasingly rely on solutions powered by Large Language Models (LLM) to assist them with their coding tasks. This makes it crucial to align these tools with human values to prevent malicious misuse. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework for assessing the potential harmfulness of LLMs within the software engineering domain. We begin by developing a taxonomy of potentially harmful software engineering scenarios and subsequently, create a dataset of prompts based on this taxonomy. To systematically assess the responses, we design and validate an automatic evaluator that classifies the outputs of a…

[THEME MUSIC FADES]  The passage I read at the top there is from Chapter 7 of the book, “The Ultimate Paperwork Shredder.”   Paperwork plays a particularly important role in healthcare. It helps convey treatment information that supports patient care, and it’s also used to help demonstrate that providers are meeting regulatory responsibilities, among other things. But if we’re being honest, it’s taxing—for everyone—and it’s a big contributor to the burnout our clinicians are experiencing today. Carey, Zak, and I identified this specific pain point as one of the best early avenues to pursue as far as putting generative AI to…