Technology stocks rallied Monday as an eventful weekend in the burgeoning artificial intelligence space and a hotly anticipated earnings report drove optimism, sending several notable stocks to their highest level on record.
The Nasdaq is on pace for its fourth-best month in a decade, boosted Monday by more AI optimism.
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Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.
If you were offline this weekend, my colleague Will Douglas Heaven and I break down what you missed and what’s next for the AI industry.
What happened
There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.
AGI (or Artificial General Intelligence) is something (in my view) everyone should know about and think about.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), much like a sociopath, inherently shows no regard for right and wrong.
Human values need to be integrated into large language models. Can this be done democratically?
Good technologies disappear.
In the company’s cloud market study, almost all organizations say that security, reliability and disaster recovery are important considerations in their AI strategy. Also key is the need to manage and support AI workloads at scale. In the area of AI data rulings and regulation, many firms think that AI data governance requirements will force them to more comprehensively understand and track data sources, data age and other key data attributes.
“AI technologies will drive the need for new backup and data protection solutions,” said Debojyoti ‘Debo’ Dutta, vice president of engineering for AI at Nutanix. “[Many companies are] planning to add mission-critical, production-level data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions to support AI data governance. Security professionals are racing to use AI-based solutions to improve threat and anomaly detection, prevention and recovery while bad actors race to use AI-based tools to create new malicious applications, improve success rates and attack surfaces, and improve detection avoidance.”
In an all-hands video conference call to Cruise staff on Monday afternoon, General Motors CEO Mary Barra attempted to re-energize the staff of Cruise, GM’s on-edge autonomous vehicle subsidiary, after its CEO and chief product officers both resigned following several weeks of enormous setbacks for the company.
As OpenAI employees threaten a mass exodus in the wake of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster by the board of directors, some OpenAI customers are beginning to look for the exits.
Startups built on OpenAI’s technology are looking for new options after the boardroom coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman.
In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI’s board abruptly fired co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday.
The chaos at OpenAI in response to CEO Sam Altman’s firing reveals the problematic influence of the Effective Altruism movement.
