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France’s Labour Ministry has announced an €80 million plan to help workers, jobseekers and businesses adapt to the growing use of artificial intelligence, as the government seeks to narrow the gap with other European economies.
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The shift of the AI frontier toward more powerful, lower-cost models could pave the way for safely slowing development, experts say. Why it matters: Top U.S. startups including OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other AI players, have to develop a financially viable path to allow them to slow development.
New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like molecules and accurately predict where their hydrogen atoms should be positioned.
Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer, is a crucial figure in AI development. He also foresaw the doom debate hinging on AI training itself.
Daniel Kjellén and Fredrik Hedberg, founders of the open banking platform Tink, which was acquired by Visa for $2.2B, have launched a new bootstrapped agentic compliance startup, Freda.
Contractors handled some calls placed through Meta’s personal AI agent during an employee test. Meta says the feature has been rolled back while it works on safeguards and disclosure.
Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday, with the Hang Seng Index closing one percent down to finish at 24,834 shrugging off an announcement by tech giant Alibaba that it would expand its overseas data centres. The firm, one of the frontrunners in China's AI industry, said the move would target markets across Europe and the Middle East.
