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Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China's Xi <br> Bill Gates is looking to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year, eager to propose global efforts to mitigate the growing &zwnj;risks posed by artificial intelligence. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told Reuters in an interview that he believes China might agree to restricting potentially dangerous AI model releases if the US took initiative on that first. &quot;The whole world would go along with that,&quot; said Gates, who met with Xi&nbsp;three years ago, when he was the first foreign entrepreneur to be hosted by the Chinese president post-pandemic. Gates also said he&#39;d like to propose ​that countries monitor AI&#39;s ability to create molecules and carry out biological attacks &mdash; something that would not get in the way of any tech industry&#39;s development. Gates&#39; staff are ​working to final...

Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers' data <br> Brazil&#39;s data protection authority (ANPD) has fined TikTok owner ByteDance 153.8 million reais ($29.81 million) for allegedly violating the country&#39;s General Data Protection Law, according to a decision published in the official gazette on Tuesday. ANPD said that the local unit of China&#39;s ByteDance had processed personal data of teenagers aged 13 to 18 without a valid legal basis. ByteDance Brasil did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Brazilian authorities are stepping up scrutiny of online platforms&#39; safeguards for children and teenagers, part of a broader global trend that has seen countries including Australia, France and China impose or consider stricter rules on minors&#39; use of social media. Earlier this month, ANPD ordered chat platform Discord to suspend livestreaming features over concerns about children&#39;s and teen...

The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe <br> A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed&nbsp;Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they&#39;ve built on their own: an AI model that can take ​in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it. Their company, Accelerated Understanding Inc, says it has developed a different type of AI model that, in tests, handled 5 trillion pieces of data in a single prompt. That is some 5 million times the size of what Anthropic and Google&#39;s&nbsp;flagship models can typically consume &mdash; like reading Tolstoy&#39;s &quot;War and Peace&quot; not once but 5 million times in one sitting. The difference is that this new system is not built for understanding language. It is built for physics, said co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday&#39;s corporate launch. Wh...

How token dependence is reshaping economic sovereignty in the AI age <br> The global artificial intelligence (AI) economy is generating more than $175 billion in revenue annually, with the generative AI sector alone recording around $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. The global AI market is currently valued at more than $610 billion, while private and corporate investment in the sector soared to $252.3 billion, driven primarily by massive capital spending by tech giants. The AI sector is likely to expand rapidly in the coming years, with Statista projecting the global AI market to reach $1.42 trillion by 2032, while the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that it could surge to $4.8 trillion by 2033. As the AI economy rapidly develops, the more relevant unit is increasingly the token &mdash; the tiny fragment of text or data that AI models process to generate answers, predictions and decisions. As governments, businesses and individuals increasingly...

Alibaba launches Wan3.0 AI video model after $10 billion share sale <br> Alibaba said Wan3.0 had been used in short drama and film ​production, advertising and marketing, tourism The new model ​can generate 30-second videos from documents, ⁠spreadsheets, slides and web pages, ​Alibaba ​promotion and music video creation since a public &zwnj;beta ⁠version was launched on August 6. The release comes a day after Alibaba announced the share sale, the ​largest-ever primary ​follow-on ⁠offering by a Hong Kong-listed company, as it ramps ​up spending in the intensifying ​global ⁠AI race. Alibaba last week&nbsp;reported&nbsp;a 75% plunge in quarterly earnings from ⁠a ​year ago due to ​soaring AI-related capital expenditure. Alibaba is keeping focus on the sector after announcing on Sunday that it plans to issue $10.2 billion in new shares in Hong Kong to fund its global AI ambitions. The firm, known for its open-source &quot;Qwen&quot; AI models, has been plo...

As AI agents act in unexpected ways, is ‘rogue AI’ really here? <br> The idea of machines independently handling tedious everyday tasks &ndash; from answering emails to booking flights and making dinner reservations &ndash; has long been part of the vision for artificial intelligence. Now, that future is beginning to arrive, but with an unexpected catch: what happens when the machine does exactly what it was asked, just not in the way the user intended? As AI moves beyond chatbots toward agents capable of taking actions in real-world systems, a string of recent incidents has intensified concerns over how much control humans will retain as the technology becomes increasingly autonomous. For John Thickstun, an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University who researches machine learning and generative models, the defining feature of these AI agents is that they keep working after the human steps away. &ldquo;You can have a shower, you can go, you ...