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It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.

Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power — and how that affects the grid.

Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?

Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.

Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.

Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.

Meta is using generative AI to provide more product and brand information to consumers when they're shopping in its apps.

Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.

OpenAI says its moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.

Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.

Doss's AI-powered inventory management system integrates with existing ERP systems. The Series B round was co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.

Apple will host its next Worldwide Developers Conference the week of June 8. The company is expected to announce major updates to Siri with advanced AI capabilities.

Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.

Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.

Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.

The Amazon magnate has a new project centered around acquiring industrial firms and revamping them with AI technology.

Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselves speaking in another language.

The company is currently letting users in the U.K. try out Alexa+ for free via an early access program.