Alphabet Q3 net income $19.7B, up 41.5%
Alphabet's net income rose 41.5% in the third quarter of 2023, reaching $19.7 billion for the period ended September 30, 2023. The increase was the largest year-over-year quarterly gain the...
Artificial Intelligence
Reports on swarm AI, deepfakes, evolutionary algorithms, automated journalism, and funding deals in the AI industry.
AI Trust Falls as Regulation Lags
Public trust in artificial intelligence has eroded sharply since 2019, even as the tools reached billions of people through products like ChatGPT. The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer reported that faith...
Anthropic Gets $580M Series B Led by Bankman-Fried
In April 2022, Anthropic closed a $580 million Series B. The lead investor was Sam Bankman-Fried, then CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Less than eight months later, FTX collapsed into...
BeekeeperAI, Microsoft partner on secure healthcare AI
BeekeeperAI, a healthcare technology company, entered a collaboration with Microsoft to use Azure confidential computing services for artificial intelligence development on protected health information. The arrangement lets hospitals and research...
Automated journalism turns data into brief stories
In 2014, the Associated Press began publishing quarterly corporate earnings stories written entirely by software. By 2016, the same system was churning out minor league baseball game recaps. It looked...
Evolutionary AI tops backpropagation in 2024 tests
Evolutionary artificial intelligence does not learn by adjusting weights through calculus. It breeds solutions. The approach selects, mutates, and recombines architectures the way nature selects organisms. Since the 1960s, when...
AI deepfakes threaten media authenticity
In 2017 a Reddit user named 'deepfakes' posted a tool that swapped celebrities' faces into pornographic videos. Seven years later the technology that powered that stunt, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs),...
Unanimous AI's Swarm AI beats crowds and algorithms
In 2016, a group of amateur sports fans using Unanimous AI's Swarm platform correctly predicted all four horses of the Kentucky Derby superfecta. A $20 bet placed through a legal...
