Softbank announces $100B investment in US AI infrastructure

Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Japanese investment holdings firm Softbank Group, announced on Dec. 16 that his firm would be investing at least $100 billion in the United States to…

Australia chases AI industry growth via new national capability plan

Australia’s government will be developing a National AI Capability Plan to investigate how it can grow the country’s artificial intelligence industry amid calls for Australia to boost its competitiveness in…

The AI pre-training age will soon come to an end — OpenAI co-founder

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever recently gave a lecture at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 conference in Vancouver, Canada arguing that the age of artificial intelligence pre-training is ending…

Task-to-earn Web3 marketing platform grows with advanced targeting tools

With its advanced targeting and real-time data tools, Midle seeks to transform Web3 marketing by empowering projects to reach segmented audiences and develop both short- and long-term data-driven strategies. Despite…

DePIN and spatial streaming bring AI agents to life with a body and soul

Mawari enables real-time streaming of immersive 3D content by leveraging a decentralized network, making spatial computing and extended reality accessible, scalable and cost-effective. Imagine if artificial intelligence could evolve beyond…

OpenAI apologizes for outage after Apple update combines Siri and ChatGPT

OpenAI has issued an apology to its 200 million active user base as ChatGPT experienced a network outage shortly after the AI chatbot was integrated into Apple’s latest software update. “We’re…

Google touts ‘new agentic era’ with AI agents powered by Gemini 2.0

Google AI research lab DeepMind says its newly released artificial intelligence model, Gemini 2.0, will be the bedrock used to build more advanced AI agents.  An AI agent powered by…

Decentralization democratizes access to AI computing — Theta Labs exec

The artificial intelligence sector has exploded and seems to show no signs of slowing down. However, most companies and projects utilize centralized services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) for…

Microsoft touts next-gen data centers that don’t consume water for cooling

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a new data center design that consumes no water to cool the chips and servers at a facility, which could save millions of liters of water…

Here’s what happened in crypto today

Today in crypto, Google hit a new advancement with its quantum computing chip, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse criticized 60 Minutes for omitting crucial information about his company’s lawsuit with the…