AI & Robotics

Meta on Thursday announced that it’s starting to roll out more advanced AI systems to handle content enforcement as it plans to cut back on third-party vendors. Tasks related to content enforcement include catching and removing content about terrorism, child exploitation, drugs, fraud, and scams. The company says it will deploy these more advanced AI systems across its apps once they…

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders’ years of AI research and product development to other businesses in the consumer space. The company, which just closed on $16 million in Series A…

Electricity is a key raw material for artificial intelligence, but new processing techniques outstrip the ability of data center operators to manage their relationship with the power grid, forcing them to throttle down by as much as 30%. “There is so much power squandered in these AI factories,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a keynote speech at the company’s annual GTC…

Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, on Monday with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET. GTC – which stands for GPU Technology Conference – is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, running from March 16 to March 19. The chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships, and…