🤖 AI Chip Wars, Google’s AI Search & the "Godfather" Warning ⚠️
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Nvidia raised concerns about Huawei’s growing AI capabilities with US lawmakers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately warned U.S. lawmakers that American export restrictions on AI chips might inadvertently be fueling a Chinese competitor. In a closed-door meeting, he cautioned that curbing Nvidia’s chip sales to China opens the door for Huawei’s burgeoning AI chip business to gain a foothold and potentially shift global market demand. Huawei is reportedly readying a powerful AI processor to rival Nvidia’s top-tier chips, underscoring worries that U.S. sanctions could unintentionally boost China’s tech ambitions.
Nvidia and Anthropic clash over US AI chip restrictions on China
In a rare public dispute between AI industry players, Nvidia and startup Anthropic are at odds over upcoming U.S. limits on advanced AI chip exports to China. Anthropic – an AI firm backed by big tech – is urging even stricter controls, warning that Chinese buyers use creative smuggling tactics to obtain banned high-end chips. Nvidia, which could lose billions in sales from tighter rules, has blasted Anthropic’s claims as exaggerated “tall tales” and argues that overly harsh limits on chip sales will hurt American tech leadership without significantly slowing China’s AI progress.
Google is putting AI Mode right in Search
Google is beginning to publicly test a new “AI Mode” in Search that integrates an AI chatbot to directly answer users’ queries. A small percentage of U.S. users will soon see an “AI Mode” tab in Google’s search page, which provides AI-generated responses based on information from Google’s index instead of the usual list of links. By dropping the waitlist for this experiment and adding features like saved search history and interactive answer cards, Google aims to make finding information more conversational – and to keep pace with emerging AI-powered search competitors.
Researchers improve the accuracy of AI writing tools
A McGill University-led research team has developed a new technique that significantly boosts the accuracy and reliability of AI writing tools. The method helps large language models avoid common mistakes in tasks like coding or generating structured text by coordinating multiple output attempts and discarding the bad ones early. This approach speeds up text generation and reduces errors, even allowing smaller AI models to perform as well as larger ones. The team says their breakthrough could make AI-generated content far more practical for everyday use, and they plan to release the tool as open-source for wider benefit.
'Godfather of AI' issues 'dire' warning about future of humanity
Renowned AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton – often called the “Godfather of AI” – is warning that advanced AI could pose a serious threat to humanity’s future. In a recent interview, Hinton estimated a 10–20% chance that AI could eventually gain control over humans, cautioning that people don’t yet grasp the full scope of this risk. He believes AI development needs much stronger oversight and regulation, echoing concerns voiced by other tech leaders like Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, and Sam Altman about the rapid pace of AI’s evolution.