February 6, 2025 News
Amazon Plans $100 Billion AI Investment in 2025 as Big Tech Accelerates Spending
Amazon has announced plans to spend over $100 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, with the vast majority dedicated to AI capabilities for its AWS cloud division. This represents a significant increase from Amazon's...
Tesla's Dojo and Cortex: Elon Musk's Custom AI Supercomputers for Self-Driving Cars
Tesla is developing custom supercomputers Dojo and Cortex to train AI models for its Full Self-Driving technology and humanoid robots. The company aims to reduce dependency on Nvidia chips by creating its own D1 chips, w...
European Union Publishes Guidelines on AI System Classification Under New AI Act
The European Union has released non-binding guidance to help determine which systems qualify as AI under its recently implemented AI Act. The guidance acknowledges that no exhaustive classification is possible and that t...
Key ChatGPT Architect John Schulman Departs Anthropic After Brief Five-Month Tenure
John Schulman, an OpenAI co-founder and significant contributor to ChatGPT, has left AI safety-focused company Anthropic after only five months. Schulman had joined Anthropic from OpenAI in August 2023, citing a desire t...
Boston Dynamics Partners with RAI Institute to Advance Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robots
Boston Dynamics has announced a partnership with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute) to enhance reinforcement learning capabilities in its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The collaboration, led by Boston Dynamics...