Norway discovers Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals
SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone
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Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5 billion buyout
Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram
OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Edu, a specialized version for universities
“…In less than four years of its life cycle, PlayStation 5 generated $106 billion in revenue. That is almost on par with what PS4 made over the seven years of its console generation — $107 billion…”
ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects
Swedish climate-focused financial technology startup Doconomy
CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
Apple Plans AI-Based Siri Overhaul to Control Individual App Functions
“…Alzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds…New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier…”
Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape
Engineering for Slow Internet…How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica
Feature Flags for Coordinated Spring API and Mobile App Rollouts
Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Startup Signs Major Data Center Contract
Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus
“…Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have held discussions with major Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in the tech giants’ artificial intelligence video generation software, according to people familiar with the matter…”
Inside the AI research boom…The state of global AI research
How transcripts in Apple Podcasts became a time-saving killer feature
Apple announces Q2 2024 earnings, slightly beating expectations with $90.75 billion revenue
Governance as Code: An Innovative Approach to Software Architecture Verification
“…Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella was scheduled to send a companywide email Friday outlining the new measures and reinforcing the notion that security is “job #1…”
Microsoft “doubling down” on cybersecurity “…engineering leads at Microsoft are now prioritizing security over new features or shipping products more quickly…”
Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use…Apple’s new AI models, collectively named OpenELM for “Open-source Efficient Language Models,”…
JetBrains Launches IDE Services to Simplify Managing Development Tools
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and the 20 other leaders on the new AI safety board
Understanding API Technologies: A Comparative Analysis of REST, GraphQL, and Asynchronous APIs
QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
Industry continues to dominate frontier AI research.
Frontier models get way more expensive…For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4 used an estimated $78 million worth of compute to train, while Google’s Gemini Ultra cost $191 million for compute.
The United States leads China, the EU, and the U.K. as the leading source of top AI models.
Robust and standardized evaluations for LLM responsibility are seriously lacking.
Generative AI investment skyrockets.
The data is in: AI makes workers more productive and leads to higher quality work.
Scientific progress accelerates even further, thanks to AI.
The number of AI regulations in the United States sharply increases.
People across the globe are more cognizant of AI’s potential impact—and more nervous.
Elon Musk’s xAI previews Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal model
Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk
AI Models : “...That’s the most common model for it. And so, today’s models cost of order $100 million to train, plus or minus factor two or three…The models that are in training now and that will come out at various times later this year or early next year are closer in cost to $1 billion. So that’s already happening. And then I think in 2025 and 2026, we’ll get more towards $5 or $10 billion…“
Big banks are in a race to get AI right…AI Innovation in Banking