AI and society

AMD enters AI chip arena with Instinct MI300X, but Nvidia’s H200 looms large

Summary The Instinct MI300X is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s AI chips. According to CEO Lisa Su, the product has generated a lot of interest. But Nvidia came prepared. As part of the Advancing AI event, AMD unveiled its latest AI chips, the Instinct MI300X GPU and the MI300A APU. According to AMD, the MI300 series …

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Marathon talks bring EU closer to AI law agreement, ChatGPT issue resolved

Summary EU lawmakers and governments have now been negotiating the EU AI law for more than 20 hours. Systems such as ChatGPT have been a point of contention — which now seems to have been resolved. The European Union is currently debating the EU AI Act. As Reuters reports, the regulation of generative AI systems …

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Run LLMs on your M Series with Apple’s new MLX machine learning framework

Summary Apple has released MLX, an efficient machine learning framework tailored for Apple silicon, and MLX Data, a flexible data loading package. Both have been released by Apple’s machine learning research team. MLX’s Python API closely follows NumPy, with a few differences. Composable function transformations: MLX has composable function transformations for automatic differentiation, automatic vectorization, …

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French AI start-up Mistral AI nears $2 billion valuation

Summary Mistral AI is in investment talks with tech investor Andreessen Horowitz and could soon reach a valuation of nearly $2 billion, according to Bloomberg. French AI startup Mistral AI is raising around €450 million ($487 million) in a funding round led by tech investor Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg writes. Nvidia and Salesforce also participated in …

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Lasso Security investigation uncovers major HuggingFace API token exposure

Summary An investigation by cybersecurity startup Lasso Security reveals that more than 1,500 HuggingFace API tokens are exposed, including those from Meta. A recent investigation into HuggingFace, a major platform for developers, has revealed that more than 1,500 API tokens are exposed. According to Lasso Security, a start-up specialising in cybersecurity for language models and …

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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warns Nvidia over AI chips for China

Summary US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called for more money to restrict China’s access to AI chips — and issued a warning to Nvidia. Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called for more money for export controls to deny China access to advanced semiconductors. Raimondo stressed that the Bureau …

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Beijing internet court grants copyright to AI-generated image

Summary The Beijing Internet Court has ruled in favor of copyright protection for an AI-generated image. The plaintiff, Li, had used Stable Diffusion to create a photorealistic image of a young Asian woman and shared it on a Chinese Instagram-like platform. The blogger, Liu, then shared the image on another Chinese content platform without permission. …

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US intelligence probes G42, Abu Dhabi’s AI powerhouse and OpenAI partner

Summary G42 is an AI and cloud computing company based in Abu Dhabi with ties to the UAE government. A New York Times report has revealed that the company is under investigation by US intelligence agencies. According to a report in the New York Times, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised concerns about the potential …

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Campaign uses AI to target Germany’s far-right party

Summary The German government is considering legal action after a deep fake video of Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls for the far-right AfD party to be banned. The German government is reviewing its approach to deep fake technology after a satirical video featuring Chancellor Olaf Scholz was created by activist group the Centre for Political Beauty …

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