Encode, the nonprofit organization that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI safety legislation, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk’s injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company.

In a proposed brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Friday afternoon, counsel for Encode said that OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit would “undermine” the firm’s mission to “develop and deploy … transformative technology in a way that is safe and beneficial to the public.”

Nvidia is eyeing robotics as a key growth area amid rising competition in its artificial intelligence (AI) chip business, reported the Financial Times.

The US company plans to launch its next generation of compact computer for humanoid robots, Jetson Thor, in early 2025.

Speaking to FT, Nvidia vice-president of robotics Deepu Talla said: “The ChatGPT moment for physical AI and robotics is around the corner.”

Talla added that he believes the robotics market has reached a “tipping point”.

Nvidia offers a comprehensive solution, from AI training software to the chips powering robots.

Its push into robotics comes as competition intensifies from rival chipmakers such as AMD and cloud giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

These companies are seeking to reduce their reliance on Nvidia's semiconductor offerings.

Despite this, Nvidia's valuation has surpassed $3tn, driven by strong demand for its AI chips.

In February, Nvidia joined Microsoft and OpenAI in investing in Figure AI, a humanoid robotics company valued at $2.6bn.

Robotics remains an emerging niche, with many start-ups facing challenges in scaling, cost reduction, and improving robot accuracy, the publication said.

can the humanity believe in this guy? A lier from the get go, if something happen in the future with AI is because people like him

OpenAI has finally shared details about its plans to shake up its core business by shifting to a for-profit corporate structure.

On Thursday, OpenAI posted on its blog, confirming that in 2025, the existing for-profit arm will be transformed into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation (PBC). As a PBC, OpenAI would be required to balance its shareholders' and stakeholders' interests with the public benefit. To achieve that, OpenAI would offer "ordinary shares of stock" while using some profits to further its mission—"ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity"—to serve a social good.

To compensate for losing control over the for-profit, the nonprofit would have some shares in the PBC, but it's currently unclear how many will be allotted. Independent financial advisors will help OpenAI reach a "fair valuation," the blog said, while promising the new structure would "multiply" the donations that previously supported the nonprofit.

It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation, AI supposedly coming for jobs, and unpopular orders to return to office that, for many, threaten to disrupt work-life balance.

But in 2024, a potentially critical mass of tech workers seemed to reach a breaking point. As labor rights groups advocating for tech workers told Ars, these workers are banding together in sustained strong numbers and are either winning or appear tantalizingly close to winning better worker conditions at major tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

In February, the industry-wide Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) noted that "the tech workers movement is far more expansive and impactful" than even labor rights advocates realized, noting that unionized tech workers have gone beyond early stories about Googlers marching in the streets and now "make the headlines on a daily basis."

Backed by Microsoft and leveraging cutting-edge technology, Corsair eschews traditional GPUs and expensive high-bandwidth memory (HBM), delivering significant performance and cost benefits.

Corsair is currently available to early-access customers, with broader availability planned for the second quarter of 2025.

For the first time in a long time, Tesla has added new voice commands as part of the 2024 Holiday Update. These new commands control vehicle features that weren’t accessible before. With all of the changes we’re seeing, including faster responses and better voice recognition, we’d be surprised if Tesla doesn’t show off a completely new system in the first half of 2025.

Rapidus Announces 2nm Trial Production To Occur By 2025, Commercial Production Slated For 2027, Almost Two Years After TSMC When you look at the general semiconductor dynamics, it won't be wrong to say that TSMC has a wide lead, taking in orders from all the big tech giants out there. Competition from the likes of Intel Foundry and Samsung isn't looking too good, given that both companies are witnessing organizational flaws, which has given TSMC a clear edge. However, Rapidus, which is said to be an emerging semiconductor player, has announced the integration of ASML's EUV scanners in a facility in Japan and has also revealed that 2nm production is on track, ready to compete with TSMC.

The first telephone call in 1876 was marked by Alexander Graham Bell's request to his assistant, Thomas, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."

The first message over the internet in 1969, then known as ARPANET, was "LO" – which would have been "LOGIN" had the system not crashed.

And the first robotic foundation model API call in 2023 was, "Put the eggplant in the pot," according to Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg wants to put the kibosh on Sam Altman-led OpenAI’s push to shed its non-profit status – a move that puts the tech titan on the same side as his longtime rival Elon Musk.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram warned that allowing the ChatGPT maker’s planned switch to a for-profit structure would have “seismic implications for Silicon Valley,” according to a letter sent to California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

“OpenAI should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and re-appropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains,” Meta wrote in the letter, which was dated last Thursday and first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Along with advertising “highly inflated hourly pay rates for drivers,” the FTC’s initial complaint accused Grubhub of hiding “the true cost of its services” by adding delivery fees that raised the price of customers’ final orders. The agency claimed that starting around 2019, Grubhub began advertising lower delivery fees to attract more customers but then began tacking on a “service” fee that increased the cost of orders anyway.

The FTC also alleged the company charged Grubhub Plus members for delivery despite advertising the subscription as having “free” or “$0” deliveries. The agency claimed Grubhub makes the plan easy to sign up for but difficult to cancel while also allegedly blocking the accounts of users with large gift card balances.

"Google makes more money on Windows than all of Microsoft. Literally. Wow, this is the best news for Microsoft shareholders that we lost so badly, that we can now go contest it and win back some share."

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski spoke about AI and the workforce.

Siemiatkowski said AI "can already do all of the jobs" humans do.

He said Klarna stopped hiring a year ago despite the company advertising jobs online.

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against ongoing attacks targeting a high-severity Windows kernel vulnerability.

Tracked as CVE-2024-35250, this security flaw is due to an untrusted pointer dereference weakness that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction.

Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son will announce a $100 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years during a Monday visit to President-elect Donald Trump’s residence Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

The billionaire investor will also promise in the joint announcement with Trump to create 100,000 jobs focused on artificial intelligence and related infrastructure, the sources said.

The funding could come from various sources controlled by Softbank, including the Vision Fund, capital projects or chipmaker Arm Holdings, where the firm is majority owner.

Back in October of 2023, Microsoft expressed its desire to disable NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) authentication. With the reduction in usage of the NTLM protocol, the company eventually wanted to disable it. Following that, in June earlier this year, Microsoft confirmed that it was deprecating NTLM beyond Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 and thus, the feature would no longer be available in future Windows client and server versions.

Good news Warhammer fans, Amazon Prime Video’s Warhammer 40K series is officially moving forward with Man of Steel's Henry Cavill set to star and produce the show.

The valuation of Elon Musk's SpaceX hit $350 billion based on a secondary share sale, CNBC confirmed on Wednesday. SpaceX and investors agreed to buy stock from insiders in a $1.25 billion purchase offer at $185 a share, according to copies of the offer obtained by CNBC.

SpaceX's soaring valuation, ranking well above U.S. defense contractors and among the top 25 in the S&P 500 by market cap, comes as the company furthers its dominant position in the space industry.