DeepMind's New Chess AI System AZdb Outperforms Old System AlphaZero


Sam Altman stated that AI cannot shorten working hours, as increased productivity will trigger a sense of competition, leading people not to reduce their work. He pointed out that for a long time, tech company CEOs have promised to shorten working hours, but it has not come true.
NVIDIA is discussing a major deal with OpenAI, planning to provide about $25 billion in financing guarantees to support its leasing of a 10-gigawatt data center developed by SoftBank's energy subsidiary in Ohio. Including chips, the total investment in the project may exceed $50 billion, making it the largest data center in the world.
Alphabet's bet on AI startup Anthropic has paid off massively. As of June 30, its total private investment value was ~$124.3B, with Anthropic holdings worth ~$124B, making it one of its most successful investments and highlighting deep capital-compute ties between the two AI giants.....
IBM's latest financial report shows revenue of $17.2 billion and net profit of $2.2 billion, but the performance fell far short of expectations. A decline in infrastructure business led to a record 25% drop in stock price in one day, and the full-year growth forecast has been downgraded. The main reason is a sharp 42% drop in mainframe sales, with rising costs squeezing budgets, and the contraction of core businesses triggering a chain reaction.
Google DeepMind unveils GenCeption, repurposing video generation AI for visual analysis. A single model handles depth estimation, segmentation, and 3D pose estimation in one forward pass, trained on Alibaba's Wan2.1 framework, breaking task isolation.....