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Artificial Intelligence is a key technology that can help us solve major societal challenges such as climate change, energy supply, healthcare, education or logistics. AI can solve specific problems more effectively by supporting us in decision-making, automating solutions and thus scaling them, or discovering completely new solutions. But the use of AI also poses new risks, for example when it comes to surveillance or questions of social justice.

What is our society doing with AI – and what is AI doing to our society? We shed light on this question in our AI and Society Content Hub.

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OpenAI restructures under new foundation, Microsoft takes 27 percent stake

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The long-predicted deepfake dystopia has arrived with Sora 2

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Google downplays AI's environmental impact in new study

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The European Union is planning a major expansion of its AI infrastructure. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission want to build up to five AI gigafactories across Europe to boost compute capacity for advanced AI models and reduce the region's dependence on foreign technology.

The Commission plans to fund the effort with 20 billion euros through its InvestAI program, and the EIB is considering additional loans. Each site will include about 100,000 high-performance AI chips, described as "the most advanced" available and roughly four times more than existing facilities.

"AI gigafactories will train the most complex, very large AI models, which require extensive computing infrastructure for breakthroughs in domains such as medicine, cleantech and space."

The project falls under the EIB's TechEU program, which aims to mobilize 250 billion euros in investment by 2027.

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Nvidia and OpenAI have not yet signed their planned 100 billion dollar deal. Nvidia CFO Colette Kress confirmed this on Tuesday during a conference in Arizona. Even though both companies announced plans in September to provide 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI, the arrangement is still only a memorandum of understanding. Kress said the two sides are still working toward a final agreement.

The holdup raises new questions about the circular business structures that have become common in the tech industry, where large companies invest in startups that then spend the money on the investor's own products. Any future revenue from the OpenAI deal is not included in Nvidia's current 500 billion dollar forecast. A separate 10 billion dollar investment in competitor Anthropic also remains pending.

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Corporate AI agents use simple workflows with human oversight instead of chasing full autonomy

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Physicist Steve Hsu publishes research built around a core idea generated by GPT-5

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The ARC benchmark's fall marks another casualty of relentless AI optimization

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