AI is going to change the way people work, but it's not going to replace them en masse, according to new research from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Why it matters: This directly pushes back on fear-based narratives coming from some AI leaders and reframes the debate from "when do jobs disappear?" to "how quickly do tasks shift?"
Sunfish — an AI-powered fertility platform — is introducing an egg-freezing program that uses predictive models to estimate the cost of reaching a target number of eggs.
Why it matters: Fertility treatments are a significant contributor to debt for many families in the U.S.,but unlike mortgages, student debt or car payments, the treatments usually give people little transparency into what the final bill will be.
Google is weighing greater use of natural gas to power its AI ambitions than previously known, according to a report released Wednesday.
Why it matters: Google has earned a reputation for prioritizing clean energy in the rush to build data centers, but new findings from a market intelligence firm suggest it may also lean more on a fossil fuel.
Anthropic needs to explain its recent source code leaks and changes to its internal safety policies, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) wrote to CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday, warning of potential national security risks in a letter shared exclusively with Axios.
Why it matters: Gottheimer's letter highlights the growing pressure on AI companies from Washington as their tools become embedded in defense and intelligence operations, and comes amid Anthropic's ongoingbattle with the Pentagon.
Two prominent fusion companies — Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Realta Fusion — said Thursday they're teaming up to give the frantic push toward commercial fusion even better odds.
Why it matters: Executives said the successful development of fusion — the energy powering the sun — has become even more urgent at a time when the Iran war has shown a pressing need to diversify energy supplies.
JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon tells me the U.S. is facing the most concurrent risks in 80 years — and that's before AI starts displacing a large number of American workers.
Why it matters: Dimon, in an interview for "The Axios Show," says American business leaders need to step up, and speak up, to help guide the country through these high-risk, tumultuous times.
Anthropic's runaway success is exposing AI's core problem: compute costs.
Why it matters: The closer AI labs get to IPOs, the harder it becomes to hide a structural margin problem: The more customers they win, the more they spend on the compute to serve them.
