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Fears Rise Over UK's Humphrey AI Rollout

Government's AI tool, Humphrey, uses models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, sparking concerns over reliance on big tech in public sector reform. All officials in England and Wales to be trained in AI toolkit as part of civil service efficiency push.

Japanese LLM Training on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

The Institute of Science Tokyo developed Llama 3.3 Swallow, a 70-billion-parameter LLM with superior Japanese language capabilities, outperforming GPT-4o-mini. The model, available on Hugging Face, was trained using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and specialized enhancements for Japanese processing.

Optimizing Support Vector Regression in C#

Article showcases linear support vector regression using C# with particle swarm training for model prediction accuracy assessment. Demo reveals challenges in predicting non-linear data, highlighting the importance of specialized optimization algorithms like particle swarm.

Sovereign AI: EBU and NVIDIA Join Forces for Public Broadcasters

NVIDIA and EBU team up to develop sovereign AI for European public service media, ensuring compliance with European policies and values. The collaboration aims to empower media innovation by providing access to high-quality cloud and AI technologies, fostering workforce development and creating a resilient media landscape.

Revolutionizing 6G with Photonic Processors

MIT researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI hardware accelerator for wireless signal processing that operates at the speed of light, offering a 100x faster and more energy-efficient alternative to digital AI accelerators. This technology could revolutionize future 6G wireless applications and enable real-time AI inference for various high-performance computing tasks, from autonomous vehi...

AI Threats: A Concerned Response Letters

Björn Ulvaeus challenges artists on copyright protection, claiming AI poses no creative threat. As president of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, he advocates for artists against profit-seeking tech companies.

AI-Driven Wireless Networks: The Future of Connectivity

European telecoms are leveraging NVIDIA for 6G development, integrating AI for innovation and sustainability. Collaboration with U.K. government and leading universities, Finland's real-time network digital twin, and France's OAI partnership highlight cutting-edge advancements in AI-native wireless networks.

Revive Your Art: AI Mask Restoration in Hours

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine develops a method to physically apply digital restorations onto original paintings, speeding up the process by 66 times. His innovative approach allows for a clear digital record of restoration changes, potentially bringing more damaged art back to the public eye.

NVIDIA's Advanced Reasoning Models Hit Amazon Marketplace

NVIDIA releases Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart for deploying generative AI models at scale with ease. NVIDIA NIM microservices on AWS enable seamless deployment of various generative AI models, including open source community models and custom ones, with industry-standard APIs and minimal code.