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Public Ownership of AI Language Models

Prof Dr Matteo Valleriani emphasizes the need for open-access LLMs driven by ethics, not profit, in historical research. Private companies' goals often conflict with historical scholarship values like transparency and accessibility.

The Rise of Facial ID in Policing

Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' in England and Wales, despite dystopian fears. Croydon's North End could host the UK's first fixed cameras, using biometric data to trigger alerts and potential arrests.

Boosting Voice Virtual Assistant Performance with Genesys and Amazon

Principal Financial Group® enhanced their customer call experience by implementing a cloud-first approach with Amazon Lex and Genesys Cloud. The integration allowed for personalized customer interactions and improved overall customer experiences through natural language understanding and intelligent routing.

Enhancing Query Responses with Amazon Bedrock Embedding

Amazon Bedrock, Titan Text Embeddings v2, and few-shot prompting improve AI response quality, enhancing user satisfaction significantly. The system uses user feedback and prompting to optimize responses, achieving a 3.67% increase in user satisfaction scores.

AI unlocks the link between vision and sound

Researchers from MIT improve AI model's ability to learn like humans, connecting audio and visual data without human labels. Method enhances accuracy in video retrieval tasks and action classification in audiovisual scenes, opening new applications.

Drought-Stricken Latin America Attracts Tech Giants

Chinese social media giant TikTok plans to build a massive datacentre in Brazil, creating jobs and leveraging undersea cables for optimal connectivity. The 55bn reais project signals Brazil's appeal to tech companies seeking supercomputer facilities in the AI-driven market.

Mastering the Art of Predicting Rare Failures

Southwest Airlines faced a $750 million loss after a 10-day crisis that stranded 2 million passengers due to a cascading failure triggered by winter weather. MIT researchers developed a computational system to pinpoint root causes of rare failures in complex systems, presented at ICLR.