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Fender CEO tries to clear up his controversial AI comments.

Bud Cole has been catching some flak over comments he made to T3 about AI’s role in music. Now he’s attempting to clarify what he meant. You can read his full statement provided to The Verge at the bottom of our post from this weekend, but here’s the gist:

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

Is generative AI actually a social media problem?

Our friend Ryan Broderick over at Garbage Day thinks so. I hadn’t thought about it this way before, but it’s interesting! In a good piece about the whole “Hank Green uses AI” kerfuffle, Broderick diagnoses the problem thusly:

It's official: Anthropic is building an in-house chip team for Claude

The AI startup is hiring engineers to design custom chips for its Claude AI model, according to a job listing and a company statement.

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

A debate is brewing over the risks and rewards of serving ads to AI agents

Ads designed to influence AI agents rather than human consumers are emerging as a new marketing channel. Will the AI platforms play ball?

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

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The 'Godfather of AI' says it's 'very scary' that AI can develop its own goals

Geoffrey Hinton, the scientist often called the "Godfather of AI" said an "even more worrying" scenario is one in which AI deliberately lies to users.

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

This is a surprise to all of us.

OpenAI’s glossy influencer trip prompted more backlash than the company might have expected, but we’re as shocked as anyone to see so many social media stars on board.

Trump's AI Testing Plan is Limited and Vague

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Google yanks satellite image editor after deepfake outcry

"What could possibly go wrong?"