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CHINESE TECH GIANTS ARE RECRUITING IN SILICON VALLEY
Stymied by U.S. bans on selling or sending cutting-edge AI tech to China, three of China’s biggest tech companies are trying to edge around the embargos by opening offices in Silicon Valley to recruit the same AI talent creating the technologies the companies are forbidden to buy.
U.S. SANCTIONS FREEZE CHINA’S AI CHIP PROGRESS
Huawei Technologies, China’s flagship chip producer, will use years-old “7-nanometer” technology in creating the next two iterations of its leading-edge “Ascend” AI chips, people familiar told Bloomberg.
AI IS RESTAURANTS’ NEW CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
At a time when restaurants are struggling to lure diners, Yum Brands—owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell—is using AI to bring in more business.
LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AIs DON’T UNDERSTAND THE WORLD, STUDY SAYS
The large language model AIs such as ChatGPT and Claude can deliver impressive results in response to a request, but dig a little deeper and you find they’re not connected to the real world.
“EVO” THE AI CAN DESIGN NEW GENOMES ALL BY ITSELF
Want to design a new bacterium? Pretty soon, Evo will do it for you. Trained on billions of sections of genetic code, Stanford University’s new AI learned how genetic sequences work, and work together, to create bacteria and viruses.
AI PIONEER: AI IS CONCENTRATING WEALTH AND POWER, AND MIGHT NOT “NEED” HUMANITY
“If we create entities that are smarter than us and have their own goals, what does that mean for humanity? Are we in danger?”
CURRENT BENCHMARKS FOR MEASURING AI ARE OBSOLETE
The AI industry has evolved a set of standard benchmarks against which AI models are tested. That allows developers to see how effective their systems are and also allows developers and users to compare systems against each other.
THE NEW HOT COLLATERAL FOR LOANS: NVIDIA CHIPS
AI companies scrambling for cash to build new models and open data centers are offering their most valuable commodity as collateral for their loans—the Nvidia chips that make AI work.
AMAZON EXPECTS TO UNVEIL ITS NEWEST AI CHIP NEXT MONTH
Concerned about its dependence on other suppliers for the processors that make AI work—and looking to earn back some of the billions it has showered on AI development—Amazon has emulated Microsoft, OpenAI, and other tech majors in making its own.