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Hugging Face says it detected ‘unauthorized access’ to its AI model hosting platform

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Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources. In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets, […]

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Google admits its AI Overviews need work, but we’re all helping it beta test

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Google is embarrassed about its AI Overviews, too. After a deluge of dunks and memes over the past week, which cracked on the poor quality and outright misinformation that arose from the tech giant’s underbaked new AI-powered search feature, the company on Thursday issued a mea culpa of sorts. Google — a company whose name

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ElevenLabs debuts AI-powered tool to generate sound effects

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Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs introduced a new tool for users to generate sound effects through prompts today. The company first announced the project back in February. The tool, available to all users starting today, allows users to type in prompts like “waves crashing,” “metal clanging,” “birds chirping” and “racing car engine” to generate snippets of

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Paul Graham claims Sam Altman wasn’t fired from Y Combinator

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In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was pressured to resign as president of Y Combinator in 2019 due to potential conflicts of interest. “People have been claiming [Y Combinator] fired Sam Altman,” Graham writes. “That’s

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AI manufacturing startup funding is on a tear as Switzerland’s EthonAI raises $16.5M

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As factories and manufacturing facilities have gotten “smarter” through sensors, robotics and other connected technologies, this has created a potential treasure trove of data that can be mined for insights on bottlenecks and other areas for improvement. Or maybe even to just expedite processes that would otherwise require significant manual spadework. But much of this

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Amazon is rolling out AI voice search to Fire TV devices

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Amazon is rolling out an AI-powered search feature to Fire TV that would enable Alexa to answer open-ended questions about TV shows and movies, and deliver more specific recommendations tailored to users’ preferences.  Announced at Amazon’s annual devices event last September, the feature is powered by a proprietary large language model (LLM). The AI understands

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Tech giants form an industry group to help develop next-gen AI chip components

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Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group, to guide the development of the components that link together AI accelerator chips in data centers. Announced Thursday, the UALink Promoter Group — which also counts AMD (but not Arm), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Broadcom

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