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Today’s Headlines:

• Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets - A former Google software engineer has been charged by the US with stealing trade secrets about artificial intelligence (AI) while secretly working for two Chinese companies. Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was indicted in California on four charges and arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than 500 confidential files.

• Salesforce Executive Leads With a Beginner’s Mind - Clara Shih of Salesforce AI is the leader behind the company’s artificial intelligence efforts. Yet despite its dominance in the market, during 2023 & 2024 Salesforce laid off more than 10% of its employees and underwent a series of management changes, including the departure of its co-chief executive, Bret Taylor.

• How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race - Back in 2019, and Nvidia’s market value was hovering around $100 billion. With all eyes on the company’s jaw-dropping evolution, the real question now is whether Nvidia can hold on to its lofty perch — but here’s how the company got to this level.

• This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Could Double, and It Is Way Cheaper Than Nvidia - The positive stock market sentiment seems to have rubbed off on internet browser provider Opera. Opera's fourth-quarter revenue increased 17% year over year to $113 million. This year, Opera is predicting a 15% increase in revenue to a range of $450 million to $465 million.

• Microsoft confirms Surface and Windows AI event for March 21st - Microsoft has quietly announced a “digital event” for Surface, Windows, and Copilot later this month. The March 21st “new era of work” event is targeted at Microsoft’s business customers and will feature new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices for businesses.

• AI weapon detection company seeks to prevent school, other shootings: 'a proactive measure' - ZeroEyes, an artificial intelligence (AI) weapon detection software company, has partnered with Fort Smith public schools in Arkansas to prevent potential firearm threats. The human-verified AI gun detection technology integrates AI with existing security cameras to detect firearms with a core mission as a company to prevent mass and active shootings inside schools.

• Palantir wins $178M Army deal for TITAN artificial intelligence-enabled ground stations - The Army is moving forward with Palantir as the prime contractor for the next phase of its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground station program, which aims to provide soldiers with next-generation data fusion and deep-sensing capabilities via artificial intelligence and other tools.

• How Amazon’s latest Climate Pledge Fund investment is transforming recycling through AI and robotics - Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund recently invested in Glacier, an AI and robotics company helping the recycling industry work toward a world without waste. Amazon and Glacier are piloting technology to reduce landfill waste and increase the use of recycled materials in packaging.

• AI makes a rendezvous in space - Uniting the complex mathematics of trajectory optimization with the powers of generative AI, aerospace engineers at Stanford hope to put self-driving spacecraft within reach.

• Brevian is a no-code enterprise platform for building AI agents - Brevian wants to make it easier for business users to build custom AI agents. The company is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $9 million seed funding round.

• Turnitin laid off staff earlier this year, after CEO forecast AI would allow it to cut headcount - Turnitin, a plagiarism detection company whose CEO Chris Caren last year warned that, in 18 months, his company would be able to reduce 20% of its headcount thanks to AI, is today confirming a small set of layoffs.

• We tested Anthropic’s new chatbot — and came away a bit disappointed - Techcrunch designed their own test — a list of questions on subjects that the average person might ask about, ranging from politics to healthcare. They ran their questions through the most capable of the Claude 3 models — Claude 3 Opus — to get a sense of its performance. Here's what they found.

• Gemini gets improved response control, feels more like Grammarly - Gemini web app update allows users to refine specific parts of responses in English. Users can highlight text and provide instructions for modification, which aims to improve user control, accuracy, and overall experience.

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