ChatGPT gets safety rules to protect teens and encourage human relations over virtual pals

OpenAI has updated ChatGPT’s rules to better protect teens, adding stronger safeguards, clearer boundaries, and guidance that encourages real-world support when conversations become sensitive.
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OpenAI’s Stargate data center gets approval to receive 1.4 gigawatts of power in Michigan — some residents furious as energy company is given go-ahead by regulatory body without hearing opposition

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved the 1.4-gigawatt contract between DTE Energy and a Stargate data center, raising fears that energy prices will spike for residents in the area.

Neural Concept raises $100M to scale AI-native engineering

Swiss-basedNeural Concept has raised a $100 million Series C round led by Growth Equity atGoldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from existing investors ForestayCapital, Alven, HTGF, D.E. Shaw…

AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally, study claims — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

A study finds that AI has surpassed Bitcoin and the bottled water industry in its use of resources, with other experts saying that the estimate is actually conservative.

Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation to turn non-developers into software builders

Lovable has raised $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation, led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund. Additional investors in this round include the venture arms of lead…

Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training

The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of copyright-related legal complaints aimed at the AI industry.

Bernie Sanders calls for halt on AI data center construction — wants to ensure that the technology benefits ‘all of us, not just the 1%’

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not just the richest few.

Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Problem, or Creating One?
Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Problem, or Creating One?

When OpenAI announced its new shopping search capabilities, I took the news with a grain of salt (perhaps the whole shaker). For the past decade, we have watched the slow evolution of traditional search engines. What began as tools for pure information…

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University, cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then s…