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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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Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output

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With all the controversy surrounding visual artists being ripped off by AI, it seems like these are difficult and confusing days for creators. Now, a London-based startup hopes to use AI to help artists take back control.  Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art and gives them

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Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code

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Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Codestral, like other code-generating models, is designed to help developers write and interact with code. It was trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript, explains Mistral

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With the EU AI Act incoming this summer, the bloc lays out its plan for AI governance

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The European Union has taken the wraps off the structure of the new AI Office, the ecosystem-building and oversight body that’s being established under the bloc’s AI Act. The risk-based regulatory framework for artificial intelligence is expected to enter into force before the end of July — following the regulation’s final approval by EU lawmakers

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China’s $47B semiconductor fund puts chip sovereignty front and center

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China has closed a third state-backed investment fund to bolster its semiconductor industry and reduce reliance on other nations, both for using and for manufacturing wafers — prioritizing what is called chip sovereignty. China’s National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known simply as ‘the Big Fund,’ had two previous vintages: Big Fund I (2014

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Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled

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A month after launching its first product, Humane’s co-founders have reportedly put their well-funded startup on the market. While even the firm’s biggest cheerleaders didn’t expect the Ai Pin to change the world in such a short timeframe, few of its many detractors expected things to go so sideways, so quickly. Humane’s biggest competitor, the

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