Pivot 5: Today's Top AI Headlines
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Nvidia's $1B Drug Lab + Defense AI Hits Unicorn Status
(0:19) Nvidia Commits $1 Billion to Build AI Drug Discovery Lab With Eli Lilly (1:04) Societe Generale Abandons Homegrown AI Assistant for Microsoft Copilot (1:50) Malaysia Blocks Grok After xAI Fails to Stop Non-Consensual Sexualized Images (2:34) French Defense AI Startup Harmattan Reaches Unicorn Status With $200M From Dassault Aviation (3:17) Bentonville High School Students Build AI Stress Detector for Nonverbal Autistic Users Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
Alphabet Overtakes Apple + Robots That Think Arrive
(0:15) Alphabet Overtakes Apple to Become Second Most Valuable Company Behind Nvidia (0:55) Samsung Reports Record Profit as AI Server Demand Drives Memory Chip Prices Higher (1:35) JPMorgan Drops Proxy Advisory Firms and Switches to AI for Shareholder Voting (2:11) CrowdStrike Acquires Identity Startup SGNL for $740 Million to Defend Against AI-Powered Attacks (2:51) Penn and Michigan Researchers Build Fully Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
Anthropic Raising Ten Billion at Three Hundred Fifty Billion Valuation
(0:20) Google Overtakes OpenAI With Faster AI Model and Search Overhaul (1:08) JPMorgan Drops Proxy Advisory Firms and Switches to Internal AI Voting System (1:54) Utah Becomes First State to Allow AI to Prescribe Medications Without Physician Involvement (2:42) Intel Spinout Articul8 Raises Half of $70M Round at $500M Valuation (3:26) AI Model Predicts Over 100 Health Conditions From Single Night Sleep Study Data Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
xAI's $20B Round + AI Now Outperforms Humans in Battle
<p>(0:21) Elon Musk's xAI Raises $20 Billion at $230 Billion Valuation (1:06) Data Centers Drive $23 Billion in Grid Costs as AI Demand Strains Power Supply (1:46) Air Force AI Generates Battle Plans Faster and More Accurately Than Human Military Planners (2:27) Accenture Acquires UK AI Firm Faculty to Lead Consulting Industry Transformation (3:10) Federal Judges Deploy AI to Draft Opinions and Manage Case Backlogs Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com</p>
AI Reshapes Jobs & Healthcare: Fed Warns + Utah Breakthrough
<p>(0:20) Federal Reserve Official Says AI Is Slowing Hiring at Large Companies (1:12) Amazon Opens Alexa Plus to Web Browsers in Direct Challenge to ChatGPT (1:56) Utah Becomes First State to Allow AI Systems to Renew Prescriptions Without Human Review (2:38) Luca Raises $8 Million to Scale AI-Powered K-12 Platform Across Latin America (3:24) Generative AI Helps Users Lower Body Mass Index in Three Week Trial Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com</p>
Google AI Overviews Deliver Dangerous Medical Misinformation
<p>(0:21) Google AI Overviews Deliver Dangerous Medical Misinformation in Search Results (1:08) European Banks Plan to Cut 200,000 Jobs by 2030 as AI Automates Back Office Functions (1:54) Physicians Use AI for Clinical Decisions During Patient Visits, Not Just Administrative Work (2:39) Universal Music Group Partners With Splice to Build AI Music Creation Tools for Signed Artists (3:26) Chinese Hospitals Use AI to Detect Pancreatic Cancer Before Symptoms Appear Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com</p>
OpenAI Builds Audio AI Team
<p>(0:18) OpenAI Builds Audio AI Team as Hardware Device Takes Shape (0:59) Brookfield Launches Cloud Business to Undercut Hyperscalers on AI Computing Costs (1:43) Insurers Use Flawed Algorithms to Deny Post-Acute Care Coverage (2:29) Evermind AI Releases Open Source Memory Operating System for AI Agents (3:11) AI App Matches Expert Dietitians in Identifying Gluten-Free Foods Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com</p>
Nvidia Chip Smuggling + AI's 200K Job Impact Today
<p>(0:19) Federal Agents Seize $160 Million in Smuggled Nvidia AI Chips Bound for China (1:07) Microsoft Named Top AI Investment as Enterprise Adoption Accelerates (1:52) European Banks Plan to Cut 200,000 Jobs Through AI by 2030 (2:40) BigBear.ai Closes $250 Million Acquisition of Ask Sage to Deploy Secure Generative AI for Government (3:21) Companies Use AI Automation to Enable Four Day Workweeks Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com</p>
Nvidia eyes $3B acquisition of Israeli AI21 Labs
(0:20) Nvidia Moves to Acquire Israeli AI Startup AI21 Labs for Up to Three Billion Dollars (1:04) AI Workloads Force Data Centers Into Emergency Infrastructure Overhauls (1:41) Healthcare System Cuts $650K in Two Months Using AI Phone Automation (2:11) Octopus Energy Spins Off AI Platform Kraken as Independent Company Worth $8.65 Billion (2:46) AI Voice Companions Cut Depression and Anxiety in Nursing Home Study Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
Meta Acquires Manus, SoftBank Eyes AI Infrastructure, AI Predicts Language Development for Deaf Children
(0:16) Critical LangChain Vulnerability Exposes AI Applications to Remote Attacks (1:12) Meta Acquires Manus to Strengthen Its Agentic AI Capabilities (2:10) SoftBank Eyes DigitalBridge Acquisition to Dominate AI Infrastructure Market (2:58) AI Power Stock Rally Ends as Investors Shift Focus to Revenue Winners (3:45) Accountancy Exams Return In-Person as AI Cheating Threatens Professional Standards Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
