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Elon Musk said helping create OpenAI accidentally accelerated the AI race, which ‘wasn’t really’ his intention

Elon Musk says one of his biggest efforts to slow the concentration of AI power may have had the opposite effect.Speaking to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor in chief, the xAI founder said he originally helped create OpenAI as “essentially a counterweight to Google” when the tech giant “had more or less a monopoly on AI,” but it did not go as he had expected.”In creating OpenAI and then having Anthropic spin out of…

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AMD takes a shot at Nvidia by betting on AI’s next big shift

AMD is making a bet about the future of AI: one chip shouldn’t rule them all.CEO Lisa Su announced Thursday that AMD is teaming up with chip startup Cerebras on a new approach to AI inference, which is the process of generating responses from AI models.Increasingly, chipmakers are pursuing “disaggregated…

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Freddie Mac says 30-year fixed mortgage rate reaches 11-month high

Mortgage rates rose again this week and reached the highest level in nearly a year, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said on Thursday. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed the average interest rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.58% this week, up from 6.55% last week.This…

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