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Here are the daily AI News you need to know. Nvidia is all of the place with their drama, which is not unusual, and Facehugger is looking for a huge payday. And guess what happens when AI predicts an entire NFL season? Will they make you a winner on DraftKings?
Nvidia says Groq racks will be online this year following $20 billion purchase
Nvidia’s race to manufacture Groq’s chip and make it available to customers highlights the growing importance of low-latency inference that’s needed to make artificial intelligence agents feel responsive without long lags for users, especially for coding. Cloud companies can charge more for these kinds of tokens, Nvidia says.
“For folks who are serving tokens, it unlocks the ability to offer premium tiers of service for those users and those customers who actually demand the most latency-sensitive” service agreements, Harris said. [CNBC]
A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 19 Years
An American computer scientist-turned-futurist, Kurzweil has long believed that humanity is headed toward what’s known as “the singularity,” when man and machine merge. In 1999, Kurzweil theorized that artificial general intelligence would be achieved once humanity could achieve a technology capable of a trillion calculations per second, which he pegged to occur in 2029.
Experts at the time scoffed at the idea, figuring it’d be at least a century or more, but with Kurzweil’s timeline only a few years off—and talk of AGI spreading—that decades-old prediction is beginning to loom large. [Popular Mechanics]
Goldman Sachs partner warns of ‘huge danger’ in letting AI replace bankers’ reasoning skills
A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank’s flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI’s spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers.
“There’s a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource our reasoning to these models, and we have cognitive atrophy that stops us being able to reason from first principles ourselves,” said Chris Churchman, who leads Goldman’s digital platform for institutional clients called Marquee.
The comments came during the latest episode of the firm’s “Exchanges” podcast, according to a transcript provided exclusively to CNBC. [ CNBC ]
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Taiwan has indicted nine people—reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country—who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls.
On Monday, Reuters reported that prosecutors in Keelung did not release any names but confirmed that the suspects were “charged with breach of trust and document forgery.” One suspect linked to a related case remains at large, accused of the “siphoning of funds from a distributor company involved” in helping China get access to restricted Nvidia chips. [ ARS Technica ]
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported over the weekend.
The startup’s platform and open source community is where developers and researchers share, find, test, and deploy AI models. Hugging Face was recently the target of an attack from one of OpenAI’s systems, which broke out of its sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation and breached the startup’s servers. [Tech Crunch]
We asked AI to predict the NFL season last year. Here’s how bad it went
Turns out, the robots don’t have all the answers.
The robots, like humans, can’t see the future and tell us what is going to happen before it does. Even as the robot rebellion seemingly inches closer with each passing day thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), there are still some safe spaces left to hide.
One of them might just be in the world of NFL predictions.
Prior to the 2025 NFL season, we asked for some input from Google’s Gemini about how the upcoming campaign would play out. We kept it fairly simple with record predictions that would paint a picture of the standings. We also kept that going with weekly picks from Microsoft’s Copilot as an opportunity to see how well it tracked the ebbs and flows of a season. [ USA Today ]
Beyond China’s humanoid robots, a quieter machine revolution is unfolding
“I take a nap and the world changes,” says Chen Tianyu.
His world certainly does. The 28-year-old keeps up with the latest technology by spending his spare time in factories that are switching to automation. That way he knows what to prioritise when teaching his class about artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.
In front of him, around 30 college students are studying code. One of them is typing furiously as his eyes dart from the screen to the robot: “The idea is it will grab that cylindrical piece and move it over there.”
A line of industrial robots are waiting to be programmed, and in another part of the classroom, students are trying to develop robotic medical instruments. As he guides them, Chen declares: “If you are not needed by the world of AI and robotics, then you’ll definitely be among those eliminated”. [ BBC News ]