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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU — - Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
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| NVIDIA on YouTube: |
A recording of the Nvidia GTC 2024 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California — Come experience Jensen Huang's GTC keynote live on-stage at the SAP Center in San Jose, CA to explore the AI advances that are shaping our future.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces NIM, a set of microservices designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments — At its GTC conference, Nvidia today announced Nvidia NIM, a new software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models — - Companies considering AI deal that would build on search pact — Apple also recently held discussions with OpenAI about deal
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| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
YouTube now requires creators to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI, via an upload checklist; clearly unrealistic videos will not need a label — New York CNN — — Starting Monday, YouTube creators will be required to label when realistic-looking videos …
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Reviewing Reddit's IPO filings: signs of stalling user growth, struggles to grow overseas, a dependence on Google, wooing brands, a new Class C stock, and more — WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways.
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Hippocratic AI, which is building an LLM for health care, raised a $53M Series A co-led by Premji Invest and General Catalyst at a $500M valuation — One-year-old healthcare start-up gains investment from venture groups including General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz| Reuters: |
After hearing oral arguments, SCOTUS appeared wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms to remove posts deemed misinformation — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of a challenge on free speech grounds to how President Joe Biden's administration …
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| Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: |
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more — Share your Steam games with up to five others in a Steam Family. — What you need to know — Valve is introducing the Steam Families feature …
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Searches for “As of my last knowledge update”, a phrase used by ChatGPT, return 115 results on Google Scholar, suggesting the use of AI-generated text in papers — The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.
More: 404 Media and The Crypto Times
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| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on the OpenAI board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
In partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, the US DHS rolls out pilot programs to test AI tech to help combat drug and human trafficking crimes, and more — The agency will be the first in the federal government to roll out a comprehensive plan to integrate the technology into a variety of uses …
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X: @emilymbender, @secmayorkas, @chirag_mehta, @dhsgov, and @dhsgov. LinkedIn: Matthew Teschke. Forums: r/neoliberal
| The Verge: |
Microsoft is holding a Windows and Surface AI event on May 20; sources: the event will include the consumer versions of Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 — Microsoft is holding an AI event in the morning on Monday, May 20th — right before Build 2024 starts.
More: SiliconANGLE, Engadget, XDA Developers, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Windows Central, and Lifewire
| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
Respawn and EA postpone the North American Finals of Apex Legends, after an unknown hacker gave pro players hacks like aimbots and wallhacks during the event — Something rather terrifying has disrupted the North American Finals of Apex Legends, and players are now starting to potentially worry …
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| Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
The US SEC fines Delphia and Global Predictions a combined $400K for making “false and misleading statements” about their use of AI — - Delphia and Global Predictions agreed to pay $400,000 in total — Cases alleging over-hyped AI claims step up agency crackdown
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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