Hardware choices and training time impact energy, water, and carbon footprints during AI model training. Longer training time can decrease energy efficiency by 0.03% per hour, highlighting environmental costs of AI adoption.
Audible, an Amazon brand, will introduce over 100 AI-generated voices for audiobooks in multiple languages. AI technology will be used for narration, with translation capabilities to come, offered to select publishers.
New technology FaceAge.Age uses selfies to scientifically assess aging, promising a simple way to track changes over time. This innovative approach could revolutionize how we monitor our aging process.
Amazon Bedrock offers security controls against indirect prompt injections, safeguarding AI interactions. Indirect prompt injections can lead to data exfiltration, misinformation, and system manipulation. Understanding and mitigating these challenges are crucial for maintaining security and trust in AI systems.
AI-powered robots showcased at Automate by KUKA, Standard Bots, UR, and Vention, utilizing NVIDIA technologies for industrial automation. NVIDIA's synthetic data blueprint accelerates robot training process, revolutionizing how robots are developed for various tasks.
Nvidia to sell hundreds of thousands of AI chips in Saudi Arabia, while Cisco partners with UAE's G42 for AI sector development. Trump touts $600bn in Saudi commitments to US tech firms during Gulf states tour.
Tech CEOs aim to automate all labor with AI, capturing workers' salaries. Founder of Fairly Trained warns of elite's determination to replace human workers.
House of Lords backs amendment to data bill, forcing AI companies to disclose use of copyrighted material, against government wishes. Peers demand transparency in AI models, a blow to government's plans for copyright protection.
Training linear SVR is challenging due to its non-calculus differentiable loss function, leading to the exploration of PSO over evolutionary algorithms. Using PSO for linear SVR training yielded superior results, showcasing the importance of parameter tuning for optimizing predictive models.
Amazon Q Business offers scalable AI assistance for IT support teams, enhancing productivity with natural language understanding and personalized responses. By integrating with Jira and customizing knowledge bases, Amazon Q streamlines troubleshooting processes, reducing time and effort for resolving IT challenges.
Recent large language models like OpenAI's o1/o3 and DeepSeek's R1 use chain-of-thought (CoT) for deep thinking. A new approach, PENCIL, challenges CoT by allowing models to erase thoughts, improving reasoning efficiency.
Ukrainian President invites Pope Leo XIV to Ukraine, urging media to end polarizing language. Leo advocates for responsible use of artificial intelligence in journalism.
Shira Perlmutter, head of US copyright office, fired after AI fair use report. Librarian of Congress also dismissed.
WebAssembly extends browser capabilities beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Pyodide library enables running Python code in the browser, benefiting data scientists and ML professionals.
Automated workflows often need human approval; a scalable manual approval system was built using AWS Step Functions, Slack, Lambda, and SNS. The solution includes a state machine with a pause for human decision and a Slack message for approval.