What Biden’s EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models’ riskiness, but may work in aggregate (AI Snake Oil)

AI Snake Oil:What Biden’s EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models’ riskiness, but may work in aggregate  —  Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details  —  The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial […]

Samsung reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$50B, net income down 40% YoY to ~$4.1B vs. an 86% decline in Q2 2023, and a chip division operating loss of ~$2.78B (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:Samsung reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$50B, net income down 40% YoY to ~$4.1B vs. an 86% decline in Q2 2023, and a chip division operating loss of ~$2.78B  —  – Net income was more than twice what analysts estimated  — Mobile panel business had […]

Q&A with Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady on testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit at Amazon, coding robotic systems with CodeWhisperer, and more (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:Q&A with Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady on testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit at Amazon, coding robotic systems with CodeWhisperer, and more  —  A version of this post first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator.  Subscribe here.