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02.04.26 - 15:18
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How Can You Tell if a Piece of Writing Was Generated by AI? (Bloomberg)
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CEO of Pangram Labs, Max Spero joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss the software his company built to detect whether a piece of content was AI generated. We also talk about what AI writing means for the future of the internet. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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02.04.26 - 15:12
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Chinese AI giants pivot toward proprietary models to drive revenue, performance (SCMP)
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Chinese companies including Alibaba Cloud and Zhipu AI have opted not to open-source some of their latest artificial intelligence models as they look to capture the full value of their usage through official revenue generating channels.
While none of the companies have said that they are moving away from their open-source strategies, the development reflects an industry trend where the most powerful models are growing in size, making them increasingly difficult to host on local hardware.
This......
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02.04.26 - 14:36
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US Tech Job-Cut Announcements Rise as AI Adoption Grows (Bloomberg)
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Layoff announcements at technology companies continued to mount in March, as employers in the technology sector announced 18,720 job cuts, up more than 24% from March 2025, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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02.04.26 - 14:01
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New Bill Opens Door For Killer AI Weapons (ZeroHedge)
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New Bill Opens Door For Killer AI Weapons
Authored by Jon Fleetwood,
A newly introduced U.S. Senate bill would allow the military to deploy autonomous lethal artificial intelligence systems by granting the Secretary of Defense the authority to override its own restrictions.
Senate Bill S.4113—the “AI Guardrails Act of 2026,” introduced March 17, 2026 by U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)—is being presented as a framework to limit how the Department of Defense uses AI.
But the actual text includes a built-in waiver mechanism that enables those same systems to be approved and used under national security justifications.
This means a Pentagon-approved AI system could independently identify and engage targets, making life-and-death decisions without real-time human input.
There is no language in that waiver clause limiting where the system can be used, whether targets are foreign or domestic.
The bill has been read twice in the Senate and referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee, wh...
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02.04.26 - 14:01
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Anthropic′s AI code leak ignites frenzy among Chinese developers (SCMP)
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Less than a year after US artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic called out China as an “adversarial nation” and vowed to restrict the country's access to its technologies, the company inadvertently released coding secrets, triggering a frenzy among Chinese developers.
The leak occured after an Anthropic employee accidentally included the modified source code of Claude Code, the company's sensational AI coding tool popular among developers worldwide, in a file within a software package......
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02.04.26 - 12:12
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Secondhand clothes sales forecast to hit $289bn as AI helps shoppers find deals (The Guardian)
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Sites such as Vinted and ThredUp expected to help resale grow twice as fast as overall clothing market in coming yearsBusiness live – latest updatesSecondhand clothing sales are forecast to surge 12% this year to $289bn (£217bn) and continue to step up, as AI and social media influencers help shoppers find the items they want.The rise of sites such as Vinted, Depop, Vestige and ThredUp is expected to power an average 9% annual growth over the next five years to reach $393bn, twice the pace of the overall clothing market. Continue reading......
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02.04.26 - 12:01
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Intel legt bei KI-Startup nach: Neuer Millionen-Deal um CEO Tan wirft Fragen auf (Ariva)
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Intel investiert erneut in das KI-Startup SambaNova, dessen Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Intel-CEO Lip-Bu Tan ist. Mit einer zusätzlichen 15-Millionen-US-Dollar-Investition erhöht sich Intels Anteil auf 9 Prozent. Doch die engen Verbindungen zwischen Tan und den unterstützten Firmen werfen Fragen zu möglichen Interessenkonflikten auf. Intel will seine Beteiligung am KI-Chip-Start-up SambaNova offenbar erneut ausbauen. Wie aus von Reuters ausgewerteten Unternehmensunterlagen hervorgeht, plant der Halbleiterkonzern eine weitere Investition von 15 Millionen US-Dollar. Sollte die Transaktion von den Behörden genehmigt werden, ......
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