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Image: seventyfourimages/Envato Elements The EU is pouring €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The funding will support the development and testing of “immersive environments” to apply in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments. The investment will also support the implementation of the AI Act, which ensures all AI systems developed and used in the EU are done so safely and responsibly. Additionally, it will help build energy-efficient digital public digital infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging ports. Many of the generative AI models powering these initiatives will…
A pump jack operates near a gas turbine power plant in the Permian Basin oil field outside of Odessa, Texas, U.S. February 18, 2025. Eli Hartman | ReutersU.S. oil prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2021 this week, sparked in part by concerns that the massive tariffs announced by the United States will hurt economic growth.Futures for U.S. West Texas intermediate crude fell more than 6% on Friday, bringing the price per barrel to $62.72. At one point, it fell below the $61 level. The latest slide comes after a 6.6% decline on Thursday.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconWest Texas…
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. The big news in the world of venture and artificial intelligence obviously has been OpenAI‘s massive $40 billion investment led by SoftBank. That big-money deal has folks talking, but a deeper look at the funding numbers for AI in Q1 seem to show a slight pullback from investors, in both the private and public markets, as more questions arise concerning how much large enterprises will continue (or start in some cases) throwing at AI tools. Private market As our first-quarter 2025 global…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora. OpenAI also faced its share of internal drama, including the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief…
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We expanded access to AI Overviews and introduced AI Mode. AI Overviews are one of our most popular Search features and are now used by more than a billion people. Starting in the U.S., we launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews to help with harder questions, beginning with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries to provide faster and higher quality responses. We also announced the new AI Mode experiment in Google Search to help people get AI-powered responses and dig deeper with follow-up questions and links to helpful web content.We launched personalization in Gemini to make its responses more relevant…
Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 | Lex Fridman Podcast #437
Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest competitors in the history on that show. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – HiddenLayer: – Notion: – Shopify: to get $1 per month trial – NetSuite: to get free product tour – LMNT: to get free sample pack – Eight Sleep: to get $350 off AMA – Submit Questions to Lex: TRANSCRIPT:…
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