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‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors, and operators, he said openly that he doesn’t have answers to many of the AI questions leaders around the world are more privately debating. The prime minister…
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Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again

When British neocloud Nscale goes public, it will test public investors’ appetite for a stock whose revenue is tied primarily to two customers. Since it was spun out of Australian cryptocurrency mining company Arkon Energy two years ago, Nscale has amassed over $103 billion worth of contracts, according to its IPO filing. But there’s a catch: Most of that, about 85%, comes from a deal…
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Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

After first unveiling its new AI-powered laptop, dubbed Googlebook, in May, Google on Monday said the new device is now available for preorder for $899. Meant to offer a step up from traditional Chromebooks, Googlebooks run on Android OS with a desktop version of the Chrome browser and other familiar ChromeOS elements. However, the real pull for the new devices is that they’ll prominently…
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Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President…
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ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok

Society has spent a lot of time bemoaning our digitally addled minds and goldfish-like attention spans, pointing the finger of blame at doomscrolling as the reason we can’t just sit down and read a book or study for exams. But what if the solution isn’t to stop scrolling, but to rethink what we’re scrolling through? That’s the bet startup ScrollEd is making. The Palo…
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