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Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month45m ago D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion1h ago Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)56m ago Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters1h ago Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B1h ago Salesforce Unveils Six-Capability Trusted AI Harness for Enterprises1h ago US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google1h ago OpenAI Gives US Agencies 50% Off Models, Ending $1 Per Year Deal1h ago 47,000 job listings reveal the engineering roles that AI is creating1h ago Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a ">10%" chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement (Evan Hubinger/@evanhub)1h ago Ukraine says AI is moving beyond drones and into strike missiles for the first time1h ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization1h ago Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres1h ago Exclusive: Cfo.ai launches an agentic CFO for business founders2h ago

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The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom

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The AI Salon and AI Collective, grassroots organizations founded in 2023, host local gatherings worldwide to foster diverse, thoughtful discussions on AI's societal impacts amid rapid technological growth.

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