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Top AI News Headlines for Monday February 5th
Microsoft Forms AI Partnership With News Startup Semafor
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Today’s Headlines:
Microsoft Forms AI Partnership With News Startup Semafor - The collaboration would see Semafor use tools from Microsoft and OpenAI to develop news stories with a “global, multi-source” breaking news feed known as “Signals”. Signals will present a feed of breaking news and analysis, posting about a dozen times per day, with different points of view from around the world. Semafor stresses that these posts will be written by human journalists, with AI essentially serving as a research tool.
Google Bard could get renamed to Gemini in a couple of days - This week, every Gemini user across our supported countries and languages has access to Google’s best family of AI models. To better reflect this commitment, we’ve renamed Bard to Gemini. The Bard app will also be available on Android, presumably being a renamed Assistant app.
Hugging Face launches open source assistant creator - Hugging Face just launched a free tool for easily building customizable AI assistants powered by open source models, positioning it as an alternative to OpenAI’s GPT Store offerings.
AI agents can increase military escalation and nuclear risks, study says - Governments are testing the use of AI to help make military and diplomatic decisions. A new study finds that this comes with a risk of escalation.
Google releases MobileDiffusion - MobileDiffusion is an efficient latent diffusion model specifically designed for mobile devices. We also adopt DiffusionGAN to achieve one-step sampling during inference, which fine-tunes a pre-trained diffusion model while leveraging a GAN to model the denoising step.
Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4 - The cloud infrastructure market for the entire year grew to an eye popping $270 billion, up from $212 billion in 2022. Synergy’s John Dinsdale predicts that the growth we saw in the last year is here to stay, even as the market continues to mature and the law of large numbers takes increasing effect.
Jua raises $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather - The company is still very early stage. Its first application will be in modelling and predicting weather and climate patterns, initially in how they relate to players in the energy industry.
AI-enabled self-referral system may bridge the accessibility gap for ethnic and gender minorities in mental health treatment - The use of the AI chatbot led to a significant 29% rise in referrals for ethnic minorities, surpassing the 10% increase observed in matched control services.
State AGs warn Biden AI order could centralize control over tech, be used for ‘political ends’ - The Executive Order opens the door to using the federal government’s control over AI for political ends, such as censoring responses in the name of combatting ‘disinformation’".
New Study Cites AI as Strategic Tool to Combat Climate Change - Machine learning is already helping a wide variety of industry sectors make significant gains in energy efficiency, according to a new study.
Scientists use AI to investigate structure and long-term behavior of galaxies - Bayreuth scientists are investigating the structure and long-term behavior of galaxies using mathematical models based on Einstein's theory of relativity. Their innovative approach uses a deep neural network to quickly predict the stability of galaxy models.
AI chip demand forces Huawei to slow smartphone production - Soaring appetite for Huawei's artificial intelligence chips coupled with manufacturing constraints has forced the Chinese tech giant to prioritize AI and slow production for its premium Mate 60 phones.
Despite global frenzy, investor enthusiasm in China’s AI startups wanes - At a glance, generative AI is in full bloom in China, but a closer look suggests otherwise. Despite the hype, venture capitalists haven’t been as enthusiastic about the nascent technology as one might assume.
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