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  OpenAI Expands COO’s Role as Altman Focuses on Research and Products

  Bloomberg - By Shirin Ghaffary

  OpenAI is expanding the role of its chief operating officer and elevating two executives to the C-suite as Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman shifts …

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  7 hours ago

  Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava says push-button AI tools are “insulting” to musicians

  The Verge - Nilay Patel

  Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice. I don’t think I need to really introduce Splice, actually — I just need to play this clip: If you exist on planet Earth, you know that as the guitar loop from Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” which is an inescapable pop …

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  10 hours ago

  Can we make AI less power-hungry? These researchers are working on it.

  Ars Technica - Jacek Krywko

  As demand surges, figuring out the performance of proprietary models is half the battle. At the beginning of November 2024, the US Federal Energy …

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  1 day ago

  Apple Wants to Turn its Watches Into Wearable AI

  Gizmodo - AJ Dellinger

  Company contemplates packing device that tells time with cameras and 'visual intelligence.' Despite the general failure of wearable AI devices to win …

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  6 hours ago

  Tim Cook says China’s DeepSeek AI is ‘excellent’ during visit to country

  9to5Mac - Ben Lovejoy

  China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot doesn’t exactly have the best of reputations. It has exposed chat history and other sensitive data; the iOS app has been shown to have multiple security flaws; is under investigation in both the US and Europe; and ARM’s CEO believes it will end up being banned in the …

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  3 days ago

  SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with $6.5B Acquisition of Chip Startup Ampere

  TechRepublic - Fiona Jackson

  Ampere designs high-performance processors tailored for cloud computing, AI workloads, and data centers. SoftBank has announced plans to acquire the …