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Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances

When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.

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Ukraine Develops Aquatic Drones: Ukraine’s naval drones shift balance in Black Sea war against Russia

Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.

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AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers

Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.

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Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access

Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.

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Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing. 

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The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas

Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.

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AI Investors Hoard GPU Power: Investors are stockpiling AI chips to attract startups

Investors have been gathering AI chips to attract AI startups. 

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Meta Withholds Models From Europe: Meta restricts multimodal models in the European Union due to privacy concerns.

European users won’t have access to Meta’s multimodal models. 

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Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price

A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.

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Image Generators in the Arena: Text-to-image generators face off in arena leaderboard by Artificial Analysis

An arena-style contest pits the world’s best text-to-image generators against each other.

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How Open Are Open Models?: Radboud University study ranks AI models on openness

The word “open” can mean many things with respect to AI. A new paper outlines the variations and ranks popular models for openness.

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Copyright Claim Fails in GitHub Case: Judge dismisses key arguments in AI copyright lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI

A judge rejected key claims in a lawsuit by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the first decision in a series of court actions related to generative AI.