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Companies prioritize AI training over job cuts, WEF study finds
A new World Economic Forum study reveals an interesting tension: while many companies see AI replacing some jobs, they're betting bigger on retraining than layoffs. The WEF's "Future of Jobs Report ...
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ELIZA, the world's first chatbot, is back online after six decades thanks to AI historians
The world's first chatbot just got resurrected. After gathering dust for over 60 years, ELIZA is running again on its original operating system, thanks to a dedicated team of AI historians and ...
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OpenAI partners with Axios in latest media deal
OpenAI has struck a new content licensing agreement with Axios, offering the news outlet funding to expand into four additional U.S. cities in exchange for access to its content for ChatGPT. The deal ...
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OpenAI's new GPT-4b micro model optimizes proteins for longevity research
OpenAI is stepping into life sciences with a new LLM designed to optimize proteins. Early testing suggests the system might work better than human researchers at certain tasks. Working with startup ...
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Google's Gemini chatbot deal with Associated Press could spell trouble for news publishers
Google has signed a deal with the Associated Press (AP) to provide real-time news content for its Gemini AI chatbot, marking the company's first direct content partnership for this type of product.
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Ndea's deep learning-guided program synthesis aims to create AI that learns like humans
After leaving Google, the developer of the Keras AI framework and creator of the ARC benchmark is embarking on a new path to artificial general intelligence with Ndea. Ndea is taking an unconventional ...
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MiniMax introduces AI models with record context length for agents with 'long term memory'
MiniMax, a Chinese AI startup, has released its MiniMax-01 family of open-source models. The company says its MiniMax-Text-01 can handle contexts up to 4 million tokens - double the capacity of its ...
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OpenAI takes another shot at building robots
The company is looking to build a new team from scratch and is advertising for three key roles: an electronic sensing engineer to work on robot sensors, a robotics mechanics engineer to work on the ...
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Microsoft introduces pay-per-message pricing for AI agents and a free Copilot chat tier
Microsoft is launching Copilot Chat, a free version of its AI assistant, alongside a new pay-as-you-go system for AI agents. At its core, Copilot Chat is Microsoft's way of offering businesses a free ...
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AI agents team up in Agent Laboratory to speed scientific research
Johns Hopkins University and AMD have developed Agent Laboratory, a new open-source framework that pairs human creativity with AI-powered workflows. Unlike other AI tools that try to come up with ...
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Amazon's LLM-powered Alexa faces generative AI's common reliability challenges
Amazon's effort to transform Alexa from a basic voice assistant into an AI-powered personal concierge isn't going as smoothly as planned. The company is finding it challenging to make AI models ...
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Kokoro's open-source TTS model rivals the best with a lean 82 million parameters
A new open source voice model called Kokoro just landed on HuggingFace, and early tests show it can generate voices that rival commercial services like Eleven Labs. The model packs 82 million ...