Nestlé and other UK companies are using AI to cut food waste, with an 87% reduction achieved in just two weeks. The tool aims to redistribute surplus products and meals, revolutionizing waste management.
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.
Stephen Rue, Optus CEO, emphasizes AI's role in improving customer service. Humans remain central to company decisions.
Butler Snow faces sanctions for citing false case law in defense against inmate stabbed 20 times at William E Donaldson prison. Frankie Johnson recounts being stabbed multiple times within a short period, highlighting serious safety concerns.
Government plan allows mass cultural theft, AI companies to steal copyrighted work by default. Creators, including Elton John, fight against the undermining of copyright law.
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.
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.
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.
Summary: Proposal to increase tax transparency by making all tax returns public, inspired by Scandinavian model. Nosy neighbors could help identify tax dodgers among the super-rich.
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.
AI systems may consume 50% of datacenter power by year-end. IEA predicts AI energy needs to match Japan's by 2030.
Jony Ive and Sam Altman join forces for a mystery product, marking a significant collaboration between iPhone designer and ChatGPT developer. Ive's hardware startup, io, sold to OpenAI for $6.4bn, leading to a new era of creative and design leadership.
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.
Amazon Q Business offers enterprise-grade security and sophisticated AI assistance, transforming document processing and workflow efficiency with Microsoft 365 integrations. Email efficiency is reimagined with tools like summarization, insights extraction, and contextually appropriate response suggestions in Outlook.
Engaging summary: Despite AI advancements, the focus shifts to proving human creativity. The pleasure of pencil on paper and human traces deepen appreciation for artists' skills AI lacks.