Apple’s recent collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) to release a public demo of their 4M AI model on the Hugging Face Spaces platform is a significant step towards expanding access to sophisticated AI technology. This move, coming seven months after the model’s initial open-sourcing, marks a departure from Apple’s traditionally
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Recent conversations in the tech world have been buzzing about Groq, a company that is making waves with its AI PU Inference Engine. Matt Shumer, CEO of HypeWriteAI, sparked interest when he praised Groq’s technology on social media. The CEO of Groq, Jonathan Ross, even made a jaw-dropping demonstration of the engine on CNN, leaving
In late April, a video ad for a new AI company called Bland AI went viral on social media platform X. The ad featured a person standing before a billboard in San Francisco, making a call to the phone number displayed and engaging in a conversation with an incredibly human-sounding bot. The text on the
Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI, a search startup, to determine if it is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that have explicitly forbidden such actions. Perplexity, backed by prominent entities like the Jeff Bezos family fund and Nvidia, and valued at $3 billion, has come under scrutiny for
In 2021, DeepMind’s AI research lab unveiled AlphaFold, a groundbreaking digital biology neural network capable of accurately predicting the 3D structure of proteins. This achievement was hailed as a game-changer by the scientific community, as proteins are the fundamental building blocks of life and play a crucial role in various biological functions. Pushmeet Kohli, VP
The recent audit conducted in New York City revealed some troubling findings regarding the accuracy of the ShotSpotter system. According to the audit, only 13 percent of the alerts generated by the system could be confirmed as actual gunfire. The auditors criticized the lack of transparency from the NYPD in not publishing data about ShotSpotter’s
Apple has recently made history by becoming the first big tech company to be charged with breaking the European Union’s new digital markets rules. The European Commission’s preliminary findings pointed out that Apple’s App Store was hindering developers from directly communicating with their users and promoting offers to them, a practice known as anti-steering. Margrethe
The use of AI in generating content has raised numerous legal concerns, particularly in relation to copyright laws. The article highlights that there is a risk of legal consequences if AI-generated content is summarized incorrectly and leads to defamation. This poses a significant challenge as AI technologies may not always produce accurate information, which can
The concentration of power in the hands of tech giants in Silicon Valley poses a significant challenge for European governments. As European companies become downstream customers of these tech giants, they risk being relegated to mere consumers of the latest technology and services in exchange for valuable data and money sent across the Atlantic. This
When news broke about Adobe’s updated terms of service in February, artists and users were quick to voice their concerns. The language used in the update suggested that Adobe could access user content for the purpose of training its generative AI, known as Firefly. This caused a wave of uproar among artists who felt as