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Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race
Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI. New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant’s shares plunge and profits falter ‘What’s the point?’ Teenagers give their verdi
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Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI. New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant’s shares plunge and profits falter ‘What’s the point?’ Teenagers give their verdi
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race, Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI. New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant’s shares plunge and profits falter ‘What’s the point?’ Teenagers give their verdi
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