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OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet: As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company ...
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OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet
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Rise of artificial intelligence could cut wages of workers who don't 'upskill' as AI job ads surge
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Rise of artificial intelligence could cut wages of workers who don't ...
Quick Glance: EU AI Act Approved by European Parliament
  • The European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the AI Act, positioning the EU as a global leader in regulating AI software.

  • The legislation establishes a risk-based framework for AI, applying rules and requirements based on the level of risk associated with the use case.

  • Penalties for non-compliance under the Act can reach up to 7% of global annual turnover or €35M.

  • The AI Act, shaped through extensive negotiations, is expected to be fully implemented by mid-2027.
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Nvidia’s market value briefly catapults to $2 trillion: Nvidia’s market value has topped a staggering $2 trillion, just days after the chipmaker reported ...
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Nvidia’s market value briefly catapults to $2 trillion
Quick Glance: Nvidia's Hardware Drives Market Value Beyond Australia's GDP
  • Nvidia opened its doors for business in 1993, producing hardware that enables the development of AI applications.

  • The company posted revenue of $22.1 billion in the December quarter of 2023, marking a 265 percent increase from the previous year.

  • Investors reacted to the news by increasing the company's market valuation by $250 billion, the largest one-day gain in Wall Street's history.

  • Nvidia's recent success is attributed to the surge in demand for products utilizing its chips, like Microsoft's ChatGPT, as well as investments in AI infrastructure.
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The top companies for training workers to use AI — including Amazon and GM: A new report reveals which firms are doing the most to advance AI literacy both ...
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The top companies for training workers to use AI — including Amazon and GM
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Figure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation: Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s been raising more money than God ...
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Figure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation
Quick Glance: Figure Rides Humanoid Robot Hype Wave to $2.6B Valuation
  • Today Figure confirmed rumors of raising significant funding, announcing a $675 million Series B round valuing the startup at $2.6 billion.

  • Founder Brett Adcock initially invested $100 million, with an additional $70 million last May. The focus is on developing humanoid robots for industry, with funds geared towards accelerating market entry.

  • Figure set an ambitious goal to create a walking bipedal robot within a year. The partnership with OpenAI aims to enhance humanoid robots' capabilities, particularly in natural language processing.

  • Microsoft, OpenAI, and other notable investors have backed Figure to advance humanoid robot development for various applications, including warehouses.
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Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race: Google has updated AI chips and a new Arm-based CPU ready for the continued AI ...
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Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI ...
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What Indian Managers Should Know About Generative AI - Forbes India: Given what organisations know about traditional AI models, it is time to take control of Gen ...
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What Indian Managers Should Know About Generative AI - Forbes India
Quick Glance: Teachers Utilizing AI for Essay Grading: Ethical Concerns
  • Teachers are utilizing AI tools to grade essays, with experts raising ethical concerns.

  • The integration of AI is reshaping education, offering benefits like automation but also posing risks such as accuracy issues and plagiarism.

  • Educators and students are leveraging tools like ChatGPT, Writable, and Grammarly for grading papers and providing feedback.

  • Ethical considerations surrounding the use of AI for writing feedback or grading assignments are being addressed as schools establish guidelines.
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Analysts weigh in on Google-parent Alphabet’s stock after cloud event: Here's what could happen to Alphabet shares next.
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Analysts weigh in on Google-parent Alphabet’s stock after cloud event
Quick Glance: Google Introduces New Data Center and AI Chips
  • Google recently unveiled details of an update to its data center AI chips and announced an Arm-based processor.

  • Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are a significant alternative to Nvidia's advanced AI chips, accessible through Google Cloud Platform.

  • The newly introduced Arm-based processor named Axion offers higher performance compared to x86 chips and general Arm chips in the cloud.

  • Google plans to utilize Axion for services like YouTube Ads in Google Cloud in the future, while the TPU v5p chips are now available through Google Cloud.
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Veteran analyst delivers blunt warning about Nvidia’s stock: An analyst with 50 years of experience weighs in on Nvidia shares.
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Veteran analyst delivers blunt warning about Nvidia’s stock
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Amazon Is Trading Its 'Just Walk Out' AI Technology For 'Smart' Carts — And AI Reportedly Needed Humans to Do the Job Right
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Amazon Is Trading Its 'Just Walk Out' AI Technology For ...
Quick Glance: No 'Just Walk Out' at Amazon Grocery Stores: The Rise of Smart Shopping Carts
  • Amazon is replacing the 'Just Walk Out' technology in U.S. stores with smart shopping carts, while keeping it in the U.K.

  • The company is now banking on the smart shopping cart to potentially revolutionize the food shopping experience.

  • Acknowledging the failure to widely implement the 'Just Walk Out' technology, Amazon shifts focus to the smart shopping cart as a more feasible solution.

  • Introducing technology in the grocery sector faces challenges, especially concerning consumer trust and the adoption of innovations.
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Many of LinkedIn’s top 50 companies for 2024 are already using AI to empower employees
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Many of LinkedIn’s top 50 companies for 2024 are already using AI to ...
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Amazon debuts a generative AI-powered playlist feature: Amazon Music has announced a generative AI-powered playlist feature. Enter a prompt (which can include ...
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Amazon debuts a generative AI-powered playlist feature
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Amazon Music Releases Beta of AI-Generated Playlist Feature: Amazon Music joins the AI music trend by releasing the beta version of its AI-generated playlist ...
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Amazon Music Releases Beta of AI-Generated Playlist Feature
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Taiwan’s electronics manufacturers to ramp up AI server production | Taiwan News | Apr. 17, 2024 16:09
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Amazon ebooks: Are the Mikkelsen twins running a scam? Here’s our investigation: How AI Publishing Academy works.
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Amazon ebooks: Are the Mikkelsen twins running a scam? Here’s our ...
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OpenAI speeds up growth with plans to open NYC office, more hiring : OpenAI is expected to open an office in New York next year and the company's employee head ...
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OpenAI speeds up growth with plans to open NYC office, more hiring
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Amazon Stock Hits All-Time High—Bezos’ Net Worth Climbs $3.3 Billion: After its share price more than doubled since the end of 2022, Amazon is on the cusp of a ...
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Amazon Stock Hits All-Time High—Bezos’ Net Worth Climbs $3.3 Billion
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That lipstick review could have been written by AI: Beauty brands are using AI to help real people write better reviews. That might lead to better reviews ...
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That lipstick review could have been written by AI
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Humane’s ambient computing vision is a dead end: Despite Humane's rosy predictions for ambient computing, the reality is that the barriers to a post-phone ...
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Humane’s ambient computing vision is a dead end
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EBay Refreshes ‘Shop the Look’ for the New Era of AI: EBay's newly launched shop the look feature isn't actually new, but it gets a brand new bag in ...
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EBay Refreshes ‘Shop the Look’ for the New Era of AI
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A look at the ‘data plumbing’ that powers AI and companies like Grab, Coins.ph, and Maya
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A look at the ‘data plumbing’ that powers AI and companies like Grab ...
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Microsoft vs. ChatGPT, Amazon doubles down, Samsung laps Apple, and Big Tech wants it all: AI news roundup
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Microsoft vs. ChatGPT, Amazon doubles down, Samsung laps Apple ...
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Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence, to its board of directors
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Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence ...
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The Morning After: Amazon stops paying bonuses to Alexa developers: The biggest news stories this morning: The Fallout TV series is V.A.T.S ...
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The Morning After: Amazon stops paying bonuses to Alexa developers
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An updated list of 2024 tech layoffs: IBM, Sony, and more: Technology firms are shedding employees for AI investments and other reasons, with 46 ...
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An updated list of 2024 tech layoffs: IBM, Sony, and more
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Google adds ratings to go with its new AI tools for shoppers: Now available in the US, Google’s Shopping search results will allow users to rate items and search ...
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Google adds ratings to go with its new AI tools for shoppers
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Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained? | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
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Amazon CEO: "We're deeply investing" in generative AI: Amazon CEO defines gen AI strategy amid cost concerns
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Amazon CEO: "We're deeply investing" in generative AI
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AWS is shelling out free credits for startups to use AI models on its platform, again
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AWS is shelling out free credits for startups to use AI models on its ...
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Amazon Completes $4B Investment to Anthropic to Expand Generative AI Arsenal: Amazon has finalized its $4 billion investment in Anthropic, with an additional $2 ...
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Amazon Completes $4B Investment to Anthropic to Expand Generative AI ...
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Want Albert Einstein on your side? It costs $20 million: The long-dead scientist has found another life as a mascot of the software company's artificial ...
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Want Albert Einstein on your side? It costs $20 million
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Amazon Launches New App Featuring Palm-Reading Tech: Amazon has introduced a new app featuring palm-reading technology, allowing users to enroll in its palm ...
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Amazon Launches New App Featuring Palm-Reading Tech
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Apple Signs Deal For AI Training Data from Image Service Shutterstock: Apple is jumping on the AI licensing bandwagon, albeit a little later than its rivals.
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Apple Signs Deal For AI Training Data from Image Service Shutterstock
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Microsoft, Amazon and UW partner with Japan for AI research and expansion: Microsoft will invest $2.9 billion to increase its AI infrastructure in Japan ...
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Microsoft, Amazon and UW partner with Japan for AI research and expansion
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Opinion: Artificial intelligence will show how smart humans can become: The Seattle area is in the thick of the race for artificial intelligence dominance.
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Opinion: Artificial intelligence will show how smart humans can become
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Amazon Expands Free Credits Program for Startups Using AI Models, Offers Access to Anthropic and More
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Amazon Expands Free Credits Program for Startups Using AI Models ...
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The biggest AI companies right now: Nvidia leapfrogged its own customers Amazon and Google to become the third most valuable company in the world by market cap
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The biggest AI companies right now
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Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon: Amazon listings for low-cost tech products can send shoppers down a rabbit hole of weird brand names, duplicate listings ...
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Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon
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Artificial intelligence will show how smart humans can become: The growth of AI is affecting everything from the way we watch television to strains on ...
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Artificial intelligence will show how smart humans can become
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Super Micro Computer stock took a dive after its debut on the S&P 500: The newest high-flyer on the index want to sell another two million shares
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Super Micro Computer stock took a dive after its debut on the S&P 500