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Japan Enhances AI Sovereignty With Advanced ABCI 3.0 Supercomputer – NVIDIA Blog
Enhancing Japans AI sovereignty and strengthening its research and development capabilities, Japans National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) will integrate thousands of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer (ABCI 3.0).
Google says Gemini AI is making its robots smarter – The Verge
Google is training its robots with Gemini AI so they can get better at navigation and completing tasks. The DeepMind robotics team explained in a new research paper how using Gemini 1.5 Pros long context window which dictates how much information an AI model can process allows users to more easily interact with its RT-2 robots using natural language instructions
Exclusive: Intuit is laying off 1,800 employees as AI leads to a strategic shift – Fortune
Intuit will tell approximately 1,800 of its global employees10% of its workforcethey will be leaving the company. But leadership says the move isnt to cut costs.
Investors are underestimating the AI capabilities of this big-cap tech stock, analysts say – CNBC
Investors are underappreciating Amazon's artificial intelligence potential, according to some analysts. "While consensus believes that AMZN lags behind its mega-cap peers in AI capabilities, AMZN highlighted that it has launched over two times the number of AI services than MSFT and GOOGL combined since 2023," wrote BMO Capital Markets' Brian Pitz.
Intuits AI gamble: Mass layoff of 1,800 paired with hiring spree – Ars Technica
On Wednesday, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi announced in a letter to the company that it would be laying off 1,800 employeesabout 10 percent of its workforce of around 18,000while simultaneously planning to hire the same number of new workers as part of a major restructuring effort purportedly focused on AI. "As Ive shared many times, the era of AI is one of the most significant technology shifts of our lifetime," wrote Goodarzi in a blog post on Intuit's website. "This is truly an extraordinary timeAI is igniting global innovation at an incredible pace, transforming every industry and company in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago
Alma co-founder had such a bad immigration experience she founded a legal AI startup to fix it – TechCrunch
When Aizada Marat moved from New York to California in 2018 with her husband, KODIF co-founder and CEO Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, she needed to sort out her immigration status. Thats when everything started going badly
China’s homegrown OS fires back at AI PCs openKylin gets AI assistant, text-to-image generation, and local LLM support – Tom’s Hardware
'AI' and'AI PC'are, of course, two big buzzwords these days and not only in the U.S. and Europe, but also in China, where openKylin just released what it's calling an operating system for AI PCs
AI-powered Regard nabs $61M to find missed illness, boost hospital revenue – TechCrunch
People in tech often say that data is the new oil. That phrase, coined by British mathematician Clive Humby, of course implies that data is valuable. Data about a persons health can also provide meaningful insights and improve outcomes, but only 3% of patient data is currently used by physicians, according to the World Economic Forum
OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an AI health coach – The Verge
AI leaders are increasingly optimistic about the technologys potential in the health sector, especially when it comes to personalized bots that can comprehend and address individual health concerns. OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are now jointly funding the development of an AI health coach through Thrive AI Health
Can you do better than top-level AI models on these basic vision tests? – Ars Technica
Enlarge / Whatever you do, don't ask the AI how many horizontal lines are in this image. Getty Images In the provocatively titled pre-print paper "Vision language models are blind" (which has a PDF version that includes a dark sunglasses emoji in the title), researchers from Auburn University and the University of Alberta create eight simple visual acuity tests with objectively correct answers