Is AI About to Make Call Centers Obsolete?
Companies are racing to deploy generative AI “agents” to handle routine customer inquiries, aiming to cut costs and speed response...
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Microsoft and Lambda strike multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure pact built on Nvidia chips
AI cloud startup Lambda said it reached a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure using tens of...
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OpenAI and Amazon ink $38 billion cloud-AI pact
OpenAI struck a seven-year, $38 billion agreement to run its AI workloads on Amazon Web Services, securing access to vast...
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Surrey team emulates brain-like wiring to make AI faster and more energy-efficient
Researchers at the University of Surrey say they’ve improved AI performance and energy efficiency by redesigning neural networks to mirror...
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Meta’s AI push lacks a killer product
Meta’s heavy bet on artificial intelligence is rattling investors. The company reported a surge in operating costs—up $7 billion year...
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Microsoft to resume hiring, aiming for higher productivity per employee through AI, Nadella says
Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said the software giant plans to expand its workforce after a year of layoffs and...
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Nvidia spearheads U.S. AI manufacturing with Arizona-based production of its fastest chips
Nvidia will manufacture its most advanced AI chips in Arizona, a shift Chief Executive Jensen Huang framed as part of...
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Xi Urges Global AI Governance Body at APEC, Positioning China as U.S. Counterweight
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the APEC leaders’ meeting in Gyeongju to call for a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization,...
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Researchers put an LLM inside a robot—and it started riffing like Robin Williams
Andon Labs outfitted a vacuum robot with several leading large language models to test how well general-purpose AI can handle...
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Earnings Expose Fault Lines in Big Tech’s AI Spending Spree
Wall Street cheered AI-fueled results where they translated into revenue, but punished heavy spending without clear payoffs. Meta’s shares logged...
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