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The head of a buzzy AI company has serious concerns about how the technology could impact jobs. Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, spoke out about the future of AI at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, noting that many people are afraid it will take away their jobs. However, he believes that while it will have some adverse effects on the job market, it will also create more opportunities for workers. While he was speaking, lawmakers expressed their concerns
Tokyo: Toyota Motor (7203.T) plans to use regenerative fuel cell technology to power a manned lunar rover, executives said on Friday, raising the prospect of eventually using the moon’s water ice as an energy source. Under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan has stepped up its space ambitions. It is participating in NASA’s Artemis program and aims to have an astronaut stationed at a lunar space station called Gateway in the latter half of the 2020s. Toyota, which has already developed
Amazon is building a $120 million processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites. The 100,000 square-foot building, located at the Launch and Landing Facility, which is managed by the state’s aerospace finance and development authority, Space Florida, will enable Amazon to receive satellite shipments, prepare them for a rocket launch, connect them to custom dispensers from beyond gravity, and integrate the loaded dispensers with the payload fairings that house them
Taiwan’s Foxconn will acquire a 50% stake in the ZF Group (ZFF.UL) axle system assembly unit, creating a joint venture aimed at growing automotive and supply chain opportunities, the companies said on Monday. The deal, which values ZFs Chassis Modules GmbH at 1 billion euros ($1.11 billion), will allow the companies to expand the range of product offerings in the internal combustion engine and electric vehicle space, they said. The two partners will develop, manufacture and distribute products for automotive
The video streaming platform is getting more expensive in the United States. YouTube, owned by Alphabet, has hiked prices on its monthly and annual premium plans for the first time since the subscription service was launched in 2018. The monthly plan will now cost $13.99 in the United States, up $2 from before. The price for its annual plan was hiked by $20 to $139.99, according to the company’s website on Thursday. The price increases are only in the United
On Thursday, Cerebras Systems said that it signed an approximately $100 million deal to supply the first of three artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers to the United Arab Emirates-based technology group G42. It said Cerebras will build the first of its Condor Galaxy systems in Santa Clara, California, and set up two more in the U.S. in early 2024. G42, which has nine operating companies that include datacenter and cloud services businesses, will use the supercomputers to accelerate AI development across
Elon Musk on Friday said the purpose of his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, will be to “understand the universe.” In an often meandering 90-minute-long Twitter Spaces audio chat, the billionaire discussed his vision for xAI for the first time while veering into topics such as the Earth’s evolution and the fragility of civilization. While most of xAI’s staff is unknown, it will include researchers with experience at companies like OpenAI and Google. A few of them penned the critical
Twitter said on Thursday that some of the verified content creators on the social media platform will be eligible to get a part of the advertising revenue the company earns. Twitter said that the creators will get a share of the revenue from ads displayed in their replies. The program was first announced in February by Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who took over Twitter. It needed to be clarified then how it would work, and now the company is
Chinese state-linked hackers since May have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including at least two U.S. government agencies, Microsoft (MSFT.O) and U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Officials did not say which agencies were hacked. The hackers, reportedly seeking helpful information for the Chinese government, were discovered by the State Department in mid-June, just weeks before Secretary of State Antony Blinken was scheduled to visit Beijing. Officials said the breach did not include classified data. The hackers, whose
Alphabet said it is rolling out its artificial-intelligence chatbot, Bard, in Europe and Brazil on Thursday, the product’s most significant expansion since its February launch and pitting it against Microsoft-backed rival ChatGPT. The company is adding more languages to the service and introducing new productivity and personalization features. Both Bard and ChatGPT use large language models that generate text to hold conversations with users and answer myriad prompts — such as, “What is the weather today?” or, “Write a poem