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Initial test run of GPT-4o technology can help with regulations but ‘cannot provide predictions or opinions’

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Alibaba’s Qwen has been shining on benchmark tests, despite chip restrictions.

Together, two models optimized organic light-harvesting molecules

Users say they are driven by a desire for companionship because China's fast pace of life and urban isolation make loneliness an issue for many.

State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.

A boom in data centers is expected to produce about 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally through the end of the decade, and accelerate investments in decarbonization efforts, according to Morgan Stanley research.

Tech firms have been spending historic amounts of money on AI—but will it pay off?

Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors

GenAI faces growing skepticism as it struggles to deliver on high expectations Early excitement for ChatGPT and LLMs has shifted to concerns about costs, p | GenAI faces growing skepticism as initial excitement wanes, with the industry now focusing on overcoming practical and ethical challenges.

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We need to employ AI as responsibly as we employ people, and to empower everyone to thrive working together. — Jul 09, 2024 by Sarah Franklin

SandboxAQ announces first navigation system powered by AI and quantum to tackle GPS attacks - SiliconANGLE

Issue 2: GenAI is mostly good for productivity, what does this mean?

Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen in the robotic data. RT-2 shows improved generalisation capabilities and semantic and visual understanding, beyond the robotic data it was exposed to. This includes interpreting new commands and responding to user commands by performing rudimentary reasoning, such as reasoning about object categories or high-level descriptions.

This week, generative AI hit a new milestone: The first fully AI-generated drug reached clinical trials in human patients.