Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans

In a Bloomberg interview Wednesday night in downtown San Francisco, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company’s 180,000-person workforce redundant. Instead, Pichai stressed the company’s commitment to growth through at least next year. “I expect we will grow from our current engineering phase even into next…

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North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment

North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment

Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs poured $69.7 billion into North America-based AI and machine learning startups across 1,528 deals. That’s…

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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize…

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How to use ChatGPT to analyze crypto market movements

How to use ChatGPT to analyze crypto market movements

Use ChatGPT to summarize market news, interpret on-chain data, compare token metrics, and spot sentiment shifts using structured prompts. ChatGPT can simplify and accelerate crypto analysis by interpreting market data, summarizing sentiment and generating strategy templates. Real traders use ChatGPT for bot development, technical interpretation and backtest simulation, showing practical applications beyond theory. Its strength…

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Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code

Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code

French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere’s Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral’s models, an “in-IDE” assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tooling into a single…

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Blockchain and AI could fuel .5T DePIN market boom by 2028: WEF

Blockchain and AI could fuel $3.5T DePIN market boom by 2028: WEF

The decentralized physical infrastructure network market could surge to $3.5 trillion by 2028 as AI and blockchain converge, according to a new World Economic Forum report. The growing convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence could see the decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) market soar past $3.5 trillion in the next three years, according to the…

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