Should AI designs be eligible for Iowa State Fair’s T-shirt contest?

Should AI designs be eligible for Iowa State Fair’s T-shirt contest?

Should people be able to use generative AI to win a design contest? That’s the debate playing out on social media after the Iowa State Fair’s Blue Ribbon Foundation unveiled the finalists for its annual T-shirt design contest. The Blue Ribbon Foundation deserves a bit of grace, said Chris Snider, an associate professor at Drake…

The AI Race Is Becoming an Infrastructure Contest

The AI Race Is Becoming an Infrastructure Contest

Infrastructure is shifting from reactive to preemptive, and that changes the risk profile. This week, Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS Trainium chip-based infrastructure to secure long-term compute capacity for training and deploying its AI models, including Claude, at a global scale. The spend is expected to unfold over the next decade. At…