The world’s giant tech companies are pressing the European Commission (EC) to lighten the strictures and mandates the pending AI Act would place on developers and to scale back the schedule of fines, which could cost violators billions of euros.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Sep 24 2024
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CHATBOT BETTER THAN PEOPLE AT DEBUNKING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
From chemtrails to QAnon, the U.S. public discussion has a strong undercurrent of conspiracy theories.
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IS OPENAI WORTH $150 BILLION?
OpenAI, the company that launched the AI revolution by introducing ChatGPT, is shopping for more funding.
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BLACKROCK, MICROSOFT CREATE AI INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND
Blackrock, the world’s richest private equity firm, and Microsoft are part of a group that has created an investment fund to build data centers and energy supplies to meet AI’s exploding infrastructure needs.
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U.K. POLL FINDS 70 PERCENT WANT TOUGH LAWS ON AI
More than 70 percent of the 2,000 respondents in a British OnePoll survey want stricter laws controlling AI, specifically to slow down the breakneck pace of advances.
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“VIRTUAL LAB” RUNS THOUSANDS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH A FEW CLICKS
There are millions of genetic mutations whose effects are unknown. Some might have therapeutic benefits. Weeding through them all to find out which ones have value could take millions of hours of lab work.