Yandex Founder Launches Global AI Infrastructure Company
Arkady Volozh, founder of Yandex, the Russian Google, on July 16 announced the creation of a new company – called Nebius Group – that aims to build one of the world’s largest commercially available AI...
View ArticleData Limitations Are Constraining AI Development
Data scraped from public websites and compiled in large data sets is what allows generative A.I. tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write, code and generate images and videos. The more high-quality data is...
View ArticleAI + Bioacoustics = A Better Sense of Health
“I hear you are sick” is about to take on a whole new meaning. AI is adding a new level of functionality to bioacoustics, the combination of biology and acoustics, to gather health insights from sounds...
View ArticleReseachers Announce Breakthroughs Targeting Cancer, Alzheimer’s And Sense Of...
Three promising medical breakthroughs were in the news this week: Reseachers announced that small membrane bubbles that serve as the body’s “message in a bottle” can be loaded with medicines and...
View ArticleClimate Laggards Under Scrutiny In Run Up To Climate Week 2024
Dutch bank ING said this week that it will drop large clients it believes are not making sufficient progress on reducing their climate impact.The announcement comes just days before leaders convene for...
View ArticleHow Six Global Companies Are Transforming To Become Nature Positive
The talk at Climate Week, an annual event hosted by the Climate Group and New York City that takes place in conjunction with the UN General Assembly, focused on how currently only 17% of Sustainable...
View ArticleDeepMind And BioNTech Are Building AI Lab Assistants To Advance Science
In the latest example of how AI-driven technologies are transforming the methods and nature of scientific research Google DeepMind and BioNTech separately announced this week that they are launching AI...
View ArticleBig Tech Triggers The Nuclear Option
Google, Microsoft and Amazon, the hyperscalers driving the swift proliferation of electricity-guzzling data centers to expand their artificial intelligence and Cloud computing technologies, are turning...
View ArticleCreatives And The News Media Escalate Their Copyright Battle With AI Companies
Creatives and the news media escalated their battles with tech companies this week over the use of copyrighted content to build and operate AI systems. At press time 20,000 creatives, including some...
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