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[ad_1] In 2022, Elon Musk made a gamble that rattled his top engineers. The Tesla CEO scrapped the ultrasonic sensors that helped power the company’s self-driving technology, and its vehicles began relying entirely on cameras.No other self-driving car company had attempted anything like it. Complicating matters was the recent departure of Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s director of AI at the time. That left Ashok Elluswamy, then Tesla’s head of Autopilot software, to carry out one of Musk’s biggest bets.Lewey Geselowitz, a former Autopilot engineer, said the team spent months training the software to run without the sensors. He recalled Elluswamy huddling…

[ad_1] The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence may appear unstoppable — but it’s facing a shortage of training data.”We’ve already run out of data,” Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs’ chief data officer and head of data engineering, said on the bank’s “Exchanges” podcast published on Tuesday.Raphael said that this shortage may already be influencing how new AI systems are built.He pointed to China’s DeepSeek as an example, saying one hypothesis for its purported development costs came from training on the outputs of existing models rather than entirely new data.”I think the real interesting thing is going to be how previous models…

[ad_1] Peloton is aiming for a grand comeback ahead of the holidays.The company has been struggling after its meteoric rise during the pandemic.Its latest release? A $6,695 treadmill equipped with AI, along with a suite of other AI-enabled exercise equipment.Peloton is overhauling the entire Cross Training Series with new personalization features and a movement tracking camera that provides feedback, all powered by AI.On Wednesday, the fitness equipment company launched five new releases, including refreshed versions of its bike and treadmill, and a brand-new rowing machine. The higher-end Bike+, Tread+, and Row+ will now come with Peloton IQ, an AI-powered coaching…

[ad_1] Several current and former OpenAI researchers are speaking out over the company’s first foray into social media: the Sora app, a TikTok-style feed filled with AI-generated videos and a lot of Sam Altman deepfakes. The researchers, airing their grievances on X, seem torn over how the launch fits into OpenAI’s nonprofit mission to develop advanced AI that benefits humanity. “AI-based feeds are scary,” said OpenAI pretraining researcher John Hallman in a post on X. “I won’t deny that I felt some concern when I first learned we were releasing Sora 2. That said, I think the team did the…

[ad_1] TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images 2025-10-01T20:50:59Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Multistrategy hedge funds were mostly positive in September. Managers like Citadel, Balyasny, and ExodusPoint added to their gains for the year. The stock market rose 3.5% in September, marking another strong month for the S&P 500. Well-known hedge funds, including Citadel, Balyasny,…

[ad_1] For a moment, set aside all your worries and fears about the new Sora 2 app — about how using people’s likenesses could be “bad” or “create problems for society.” Don’t think about the potential copyright problems, or legal problems, or the possibly bad effects of super-realistic fake videos.Ssshhh, I don’t want to think about any of that.Instead, let’s talk about how Sora 2 is the most fun I’ve had online in at least three weeks. I’ve been playing around with OpenAI’s new video tool, and it’s FANTASTIC.Here’s the thing that makes Sora 2 more fun than other AI…

[ad_1] California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The decision is already sparking debate about whether other states will follow suit.  Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at Encode AI, joined Equity to break down what California’s new AI transparency law actually means — from whistleblower protections to safety incident reporting requirements. He also explains why SB 53 succeeded where SB 1047…

[ad_1] Walmart is shaking up its store brands by taking a page from Whole Foods’ playbook.The retail giant said Wednesday it is working with suppliers to remove synthetic dyes and about 30 other ingredients — like preservatives, sweeteners, and fat substitutes — from its private-label grocery brands in the US.”We’re reinforcing our promise to deliver affordable food that families can feel good about,” Walmart US CEO John Furner said in a statement.More Americans get their groceries from Walmart than from any other chain, and the company says this move represents one of the largest private brand reformulations in retail history.The…

[ad_1] California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The decision is already sparking debate about whether other states will follow suit.  Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at Encode AI, joined Equity to break down what this new law actually means and why it managed to pass — its predecessor SB 1047 incurred so much ire from tech companies that Newsom ended…

[ad_1] The most prominent AI company in the world just threw its hat into the social media ring.On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a stand-alone video app called Sora that feels like an uncanny version of TikTok or Instagram Reels, populated solely by AI-generated content.Invite-only Sora — launched alongside OpenAI’s latest audio and video generation model Sora 2 — lets users create 10-second videos from short, written prompts. The hero feature is “Cameos,” which inserts users and their friends into these clips (with their permission).Is AI social media’s next frontier? Could Sora pose a threat to major social platforms like TikTok, Snapchat,…