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China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.
China’s internet watchdog proposed sweeping limitations on face recognition — with significant exceptions.
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Industrial-Strength LLM: Anthropic teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
Anthropic, the startup behind the safety-focused Claude chatbot, teamed up with South Korea’s largest mobile phone provider.
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AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.
An upstart supplier of AI chips secured a major customer. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia in hardware for training large models, signed a $100 million contract with Abu Dhabi tech conglomerate G42. The deal is the first part of a multi-stage plan to build a network of supercomputers.
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Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models
Hackers attacked AI models in a large-scale competition to discover vulnerabilities. At the annual Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, 2,200 people competed to break guardrails around language models, The New York Times reported.
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News Outlet Challenges AI Developers: The New York Times forbids the use of its work in training datasets.
The New York Times launched a multi-pronged attack on the use of its work in training datasets. The company updated its terms of service to forbid use of its web content and other data for training AI systems.
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ChatGPT’s Best Friend: Unitree's robot dog Go2 is smarter than ever.
The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.
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China’s LLMs Open Up: Alibaba’s new open source LLMs
The latest wave of large language models trained in Chinese is open source for some users. Internet giant Alibaba released large language models that are freely available to smaller organizations.
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The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?
Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.
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Robots Work the Drive-Thru: Drive-thru fast-food restaurants are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
Chatbots are taking orders for burgers and fries — and making sure you buy a milkshake with them. Drive-thru fast-food restaurants across the United States are rolling out chatbots to take orders.
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Cloud Computing Goes Generative: Amazon simplifies generative AI for cloud computing customers.
Amazon aims to make it easier for its cloud computing customers to build applications that take advantage of generative AI. Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock platform is offering new generative models, software agents that enable customers to interact...
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Ukraine’s Homegrown Drones: Ukrainian drone industry takes flight amid conflict
The war in Ukraine has spurred a new domestic industry. Hundreds of drone companies have sprung up in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded the country early last year.
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ChatGPT Ain’t What It Used to Be: ChatGPT's behavior change over time
It wasn’t your imagination: OpenAI’s large language models have changed. Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 has drifted in recent months. In a limited selection of tasks, some prompts yielded better results than before, some worse.