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Meta's head of AI research stepping down

The head of Meta’s artificial intelligence research division said she plans to step down, vacating a high-profile position at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram at a time of intense competition in the development of AI technology

The Independent UK

Firms And Researchers At Odds Over Superhuman AI

Hype is growing from leaders of major AI companies that "strong" computer intelligence will imminently outstrip humans, but many researchers in the field see the claims as marketing spin.

International Business Times

Meta's Chief AI scientist says "AI is not replacing people" — Humans will boss AI around, including superintelligence

Meta's Chief AI scientist seemingly contests Bill Gates' prediction about AI replacing humans, claiming that intelligent systems will work for us.

Windows Central

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U.K. startup CuspAI adds AI 'godfathers' to advisory board as it hoovers up top researchers from Google DeepMind

Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun both join advisory board of CuspAI, which aims to find novel materials that can help in the fight against climate change.

Fortune

Trump’s budget cuts threaten AI research, top scientists warn

Academic research into AI is at risk from President Trump's cost-cutting, critics say.

Fortune

The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI

Grok 3’s somewhat underwhelming performance should be a wake-up call.

Fortune

AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years

Meta’s Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars

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"Woefully unjustified": Meta's AI lead scientist blasts market reactions to DeepSeek's cost-efficient model following NVIDIA's $600 billion valuation drop

Meta's lead AI scientist, Yann Lecun, says there's a "major misunderstanding" about the billion dollars invested in AI.

Windows Central

'The Power of Open Source': Meta's Chief AI Exec Opens Up on DeepSeek's Disruption in the Space

It is worth noting that his statement echoes Mark Zuckerberg's desire to make Meta's AI models–specifically Llama—open-source.

International Business Times UK

Meta Guru Urges Europe To Gamble More On AI

Europe should take greater risks and plough more money into artificial intelligence, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told AFP at the World Economic Forum.

International Business Times

Trump To Address World Economic Forum Virtually From Davos

Explore Donald Trump's participation at Davos World Economic Forum, focusing on business, technology, and geopolitical challenges.

Top News

How Mark Zuckerberg went all-in to make Meta a major AI player and threaten OpenAI’s dominance

Working with open-source models helped Llama catch up with ChatGPT; Meta stock, meanwhile, has reached all-time records.

Fortune

Meta's AI chief is right to call AI fearmongering 'BS' but not for the reason he thinks

The real fear of AI should be how people use it.

TechRadar

How to prevent millions of invisible law-free AI agents casually wreaking economic havoc

AI developers and investors are looking to create digital economic actors, with the capacity to do just about anything.

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PC Gamer

Will AI grow so powerful it can threaten us? Chief Meta scientist says: 'Pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.' Which is the attitude I would expect from any company with so much skin in the AI game

The worries around AI are about more than its intelligence.

Fortune

AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield win Nobel Prize for Physics

It's the first time that a Nobel Prize has been awarded to the field of AI.

Fortune

Elon Musk throws support behind California’s AI safety bill—‘this is a tough call and will make some people upset’

This week is the final deadline for California's landmark SB 1047 bill to pass, which would codify the first safety guardrails on AI on U.S. statute books.

Fortune

Elon Musk's $6 billion xAI fundraise shows he's serious about building an AI contender

Musk says he's building anti-woke AI for all our sake. Other AI companies also claim to be acting for humanity. But there's too much at stake to trust them.

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Reason

The Great Black Pope and Asian Nazi Debacle of 2024

Exciting new AI tools are still being shaped by human beings.

International Business Times UK

OpenAI, Meta Push Artificial Intelligence Closer to Human-Like Thinking

Meta's upcoming AI can plan your trip! This leap in AI could be a step towards human-like thinking machines (AGI).

The Guardian - UK

AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models

Launches within 12 hours of one another, and more activity expected in industry over summer

The Guardian - UK

Meta’s Nick Clegg plays down AI’s threat to global democracy

Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chief

Al Jazeera

Google’s Gemini criticised over China images amid anti-‘woke’ backlash

Gemini users report refusal to show images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.

International Business Times UK

Meta's AI Reorg To Build Super Chatbots And Attract Top Minds Raises Concerns

Meta is sparing no effort in a bid to woo AI researchers and machine learning engineers who are keen on working on more ambitious projects.

The Guardian - UK

Techscape: The biggest tech stories of 2023 – from cyber warfare to AI’s ‘existential risk’

Crypto’s crown slipped, an AI godfather spoke out and Apple entered the stuttering VR market – the stories that really mattered this year

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