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France’s Mistral debuts Europe’s first AI reasoning model
Mistral on Tuesday launched Europe's first AI reasoning model, which uses logical thinking to create a response, as it tries to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals at the forefront of AI development.
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Cisco to release ‘world’s first-ever’ AI-powered security reasoning model
Cisco Systems said on Monday it has raised the bar for cybersecurity professionals, announcing the upcoming release of the world’s first-ever AI security model capable of navigating multifaceted security problems with adaptive reasoning skills.
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Oversight Board: “Meta is too afraid to combat fake AI-generated content”
Meta deliberately does too little about AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram because it’s too afraid to remove legitimate content featuring celebrities. It’s allowing many deepfakes and scams to exist on the platforms.
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UK partners with Nvidia to train 7.5 million AI workers by 2030
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at London Tech Week on Monday, unveiled a new partnership with US chipmaker Nvidia Corp and others to expand AI investment across the UK and train 7.5 million workers by 2030.
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Over 13M students and no AI: China bans help from chatbots during exam hours
China has ensured that popular AI chatbots aren’t used in high-stakes exams and has disabled AI tools until exam hours are over.
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Mark Cuban’s bold AI prediction sparks online debate: AI turns people into unabombers
Mark Cuban expects an explosion of jobs in the very near future because of AI.
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Vibe-coding platform that powers half of the Fortune 500 gets $900M to cement its position
The Cursor team boasts that over half of the Fortune 500 companies, including Nvidia, Uber, and Adobe, are using the AI code editor.
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Getty's landmark UK lawsuit on AI and copyright set to begin
Getty Images' landmark copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI begins at London's High Court on Monday, with the photo provider's case likely to set a key precedent for the law on AI.
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Whatever your job is now, AI will make its way into your industry
Meta is aiming to fully automate ad creation using artificial intelligence (AI). Google Ads offers more and more automation and AI-powered creatives. Whether we like it or not, that’s the direction things are going in.
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Is AI making us inefficient?
Amid the debate around generative artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on the workplace, much of the discussion revolves around productivity. Some argue that AI is making individuals and organizations infinitely more productive. Others say that all it's really doing is allowing firms to lay off a lot of people.
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Cambridge scientists use ChatGPT to find “cheap and safe” cancer drugs
The University of Cambridge researchers used OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model to identify combinations of inexpensive and safe drugs that could be effective at treating cancer. The results are promising.
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Microsoft to rank ‘safety’ of AI models for cloud customers
Microsoft will start ranking artificial intelligence (AI) models based on their safety performance, in a bid to address growing concerns about the protection of data within AI products.
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Meta in talks for $10 billion ScaleAI investment
Meta Platforms is in advanced talks to make an investment that could exceed $10 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scale AI, in potentially Meta’s largest external AI investment to date.
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Sexual violence is the biggest risk from AI companions, study finds
Artificial intelligence companions are capable of over a dozen harmful behaviors when interacting with people.
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EU considers postponing parts of its AI rulebook
The European Commission is considering postponing some parts of the EU’s artificial intelligence (AI) rulebook.
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How much do AI models actually remember?
New research shows that AI language models memorize just 3.6 bits per parameter, learning patterns, not exact words, to generate text. This insight from Meta, Google, Nvidia, and Cornell helps explain how AI understands language.
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Amazon cuts more jobs, this time in books division
Amazon has cut jobs in its books division, including at its Goodreads review site and Kindle units, the company said on Thursday.
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OpenAI pushes back on data order in ongoing NYT copyright case
OpenAI is appealing an order in a copyright case brought by the New York Times that requires it to preserve ChatGPT output data indefinitely, arguing that the order conflicts with privacy commitments it has made with users.
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A handful of companies consume more electricity than Australia. Can you guess why?
The world’s obsession with AI is driving a sharp demand for electricity. While tech companies are the biggest buyers of clean energy, overall CO2 emissions are rising rapidly.
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OpenAI: More Chinese groups misusing ChatGPT, study finds
OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, which the ChatGPT maker described in a report released Thursday.
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