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NBC Introduces AI-Powered Commentator for the Paris Olympics
June 27, 2024 – NBC (National Broadcasting Company) unveiled its plans to cover the upcoming Olympics, leveraging both its television network and the Peacock streaming platform. A notable addition to this year’s coverage is the introduction of an AI-generated voice based on that of veteran NBC sportscaster Al Michaels. According to the announcement, Peacock will…
Apple’s iPhone 16 Series to Feature A18 Neural Engine, Surpassing M4 Chip’s AI Capabilities
June 26, 2024 – According to a tweet published by the source @MappleGold on June 25th, Apple’s upcoming A18 chip features a neural engine that is even more powerful than the one found in the M4 chip. This suggests that the A18 will be capable of running AI models locally, enhancing its ability to handle…
Sohu AI Chip: World’s First Dedicated Transformer Chip Processes 500,000 Tokens Per Second
June 26, 2024 – Etched, a startup founded by Harvard dropouts Gavin Uberti and Chris Zhu less than two years ago, has announced the completion of a $120 million Series A funding round. The funds will be utilized for the development and marketing of Sohu, the world’s first Transformer Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip….
OpenAI Takes Action: Blocking API Access in Unsupported Regions
June 25, 2024 – Developers of APIs have taken to social media today to express concern over a “warning letter” received from OpenAI. The letter indicates that the company will be implementing additional measures to halt API usage in unsupported regions. According to the letter, “Based on data, your organization has API traffic originating from…
OpenAI Revises Secondary Stock Sales Policy, Granting Equal Access to Current and Former Employees
June 25, 2024 – In a significant shift of its policies, OpenAI has announced a revised approach to secondary stock sales, now enabling both current and former employees to participate equally in annual tenders, according to a report by CNBC. Previously, OpenAI had imposed restrictive measures that determined who could engage in stock sales, causing…
Apple Rejects Meta AI Partnership for iOS 18 Over Privacy Issues
June 25, 2024 – Apple has rejected a potential artificial intelligence partnership with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, due to privacy concerns, according to a report by Bloomberg. The two tech giants had briefly discussed the possibility of collaborating in March of this year, but the negotiations failed to progress and Apple has no…
NVIDIA’s GB200 AI Chips in High Demand, Boosting Orders for Packaging and Testing Factories
June 24, 2024 – According to a report by the Economic Daily News, a Taiwanese media outlet, NVIDIA’s new GB200 series AI chips are in high demand, with supplies struggling to meet the current market needs. Following an increase in the production volume of advanced processes at TSMC, NVIDIA has placed additional orders with backend…
Can AI Large Models Tell Jokes? Google DeepMind’s Experiment Reveals They Can, But With Limited Humor
June 22, 2024 – According to a report by TechXpore yesterday, a research team from Google’s DeepMind project has recently discovered that large language models are “not very good” at writing funny jokes. In a novel experiment, the team set out to investigate whether large language models could create humorous jokes or even entire stand-up…
Stability AI Names Prem Akkaraju as New CEO Following $100 Million Investment
June 22, 2024 – According to a report by The Information, citing sources close to the decision, Stability AI, a UK-based artificial intelligence startup, has appointed Prem Akkaraju as its new Chief Executive Officer. Akkaraju, the former CEO of visual effects company Wētā FX, is part of a group of investors that includes Sean Parker,…
OpenAI CTO Reveals: GPT-5 to Launch in 18 Months, Promises PhD-Level Intelligence in Certain Fields
June 22, 2024 – In an interview released this Thursday by Dartmouth Engineering School, Mira Murati, the Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, likened the leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 to the growth from a high school student to a PhD holder. “If you look at the evolution trajectory of GPT, systems like GPT-3 might have…