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Will Sam Altman always win the OpenAI board fight in an AI agent simulation?

Will Sam Altman always win the OpenAI board fight in an AI agent simulation?

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A year ago today, Sam Altman returned to OpenAI after being fired just five days earlier. What really happened in the boardroom? Fable, a game and AI simulation company, built its AI Sim Francisco “war game” to find out why the behind closed doors board fight turned out the way it did. It feels a bit weird to simulate a real-life event in this way, but Fable CEO Edward Saatchi is interested in whether a different set of decisions could have…
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Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus

The small, unadorned church has long ranked as the oldest in the Swiss city of Lucerne. But Peter’s chapel has become synonymous with all that is new after it installed an AI-powered Jesus capable of dialoguing in 100 different languages.“It was really an experiment,” said Marco Schmid, a theologian with the church. “We wanted to see and understand how people react to an AI Jesus. What would they talk with him about? Would there be interest in talking to him? We’re probably pioneers in this.”An illustration of Jesus, generated by AI. Illustration: Peter Diem/LukasgesellschaftThe installation, known as Deus in Machina,…
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Science fiction stories allow us to explore what we want, and what we reject with AI

Science fiction stories allow us to explore what we want, and what we reject with AI

Science fiction has long been a window into possible futures, often anticipating technological advancements and societal shifts with surprising accuracy. While AI is now widely recognized for its practical uses — like natural language processing and pattern recognition — science fiction often brings more captivating and thought-provoking perspectives. Movies and shows have depicted AI and robots both as harmonious and menacing, imagining futures where technology seamlessly integrates into daily routines. These stories spark important conversations about how AI might shape our world. In a recent study with Carmela Cucuzzella, dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design at Université de Montréal,…
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Ubitium tackles edge AI and more with new universal processor

Ubitium tackles edge AI and more with new universal processor

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As enterprises continue to explore different ways to optimize how they handle different workloads in the data center and at the edge, a new startup, Ubitium, has emerged from stealth with an interesting, cost-saving computing approach: universal processing. Led by semiconductor industry veterans, the startup has developed a microprocessor architecture that consolidates all processing tasks – be it for AI inferencing or general-purpose tasks – into a single versatile chip. This, Ubitium says, has the potential to transform how enterprises approach…
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Samsung unveils Gauss2 AI model at SDC24 Korea

Samsung unveils Gauss2 AI model at SDC24 Korea

Samsung has revealed Gauss2, the second-generation proprietary AI model set to significantly enhance user experiences. Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun, President and CTO of the Device eXperience (DX) Division, commented: “Samsung Electronics is committed to developing cutting-edge software, including AI and data analytics, to enhance user experiences. “With three distinct models, Samsung Gauss2 is already boosting our internal productivity, and we plan to integrate it into products to deliver higher levels of convenience and personalisation.” Samsung Gauss2: Multimodal AI Gauss2 builds upon last year’s internal generative AI model, showcasing advancements in handling language, code, and images. It comes in three variants: Compact,…
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Will Republicans continue to support subsidies for the chip industry? | PwC interview

Will Republicans continue to support subsidies for the chip industry? | PwC interview

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Chips & Science Act was a bipartisan law passed to provide $52 billion for the U.S. semiconductor industry. It was created in the name of ensuring national security and a secure supply chain for critical electronics goods at a time when relations with China were frosty. The act became law in part because it promised to bring high-value jobs back to the United States, decades after those jobs left for low-cost areas in Asia. But Donald Trump is president-elect now…
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Wordware raises $30 million to make AI development as easy as writing a document

Wordware raises $30 million to make AI development as easy as writing a document

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A San Francisco startup wants to make artificial intelligence development as easy as writing in a word processor. Wordware announced today a $30 million seed round led by Spark Capital, marking one of Y Combinator’s largest initial investments to date. The company has built what it calls a full-stack operating system for AI development, enabling users to create sophisticated AI agents using natural language instead of traditional programming code. With hundreds of thousands of users already on its platform, including enterprise…
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Boost your ROI: The impact of chatbots on marketing – AI News

Boost your ROI: The impact of chatbots on marketing – AI News

Discover how chatbots for marketing can boost your ROI with enhanced engagement and instant customer responses. What are chatbots? Chatbots are automated software applications designed to simulate human conversation. They interact with users through text or voice, providing immediate responses and performing various tasks. AI chatbots can understand and process natural language, enabling them to handle complex queries and provide relevant information or services. Chatbots come in various forms, including: Rule-based chatbots: Respond to specific commands predetermined by developers, AI-driven chatbots: Use machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to understand and adapt to user queries. The importance of chatbots…
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DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance

DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management focused on releasing high-performance open-source tech, has unveiled the R1-Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model (LLM), available for now exclusively through DeepSeek Chat, its web-based AI chatbot. Known for its innovative contributions to the open-source AI ecosystem, DeepSeek’s new release aims to bring high-level reasoning capabilities to the public while maintaining its commitment to accessible and transparent AI. And the R1-Lite-Preview, despite only being available through the chat…
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Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly

Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Soon after announcing its earnings for the third quarter of FY25, Snowflake dropped a bombshell: It is teaming up with leading AI vendor Anthropic to further advance AI projects for its customers.  The data ecosystem giant has signed a multi-year strategic agreement, bringing Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 family of models to its core platform on AWS. The move will allow enterprises using Snowflake to leverage the cutting-edge Claude large language models (LLMs) for building advanced AI applications, including conversational agents. The engagement…
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