Topic: ai model training
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Amazon's AI Chip Is a Multibillion-Dollar Business, Says CEO
Amazon Web Services has established a multibillion-dollar AI chip business with its custom Trainium processors, successfully competing by offering strong price-performance advantages to its cloud customers. AWS unveiled the next-generation Trainium3 chip for significant performance gains and high...
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Anthropic Users: Opt Out or Share Data for AI Training
Anthropic now requires all users to decide by September 28 whether to consent to their data being used for AI model training, a shift from its previous policy of deleting consumer chat data within 30 days. Users who do not opt out will have their interactions retained for up to five years to impr...
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Mistral's AI Environmental Audit Reveals Planet Impact
Mistral's environmental audit of its Large 2 AI model revealed that training and running queries account for over 85% of emissions and 91% of water use, highlighting key areas for mitigation. While individual AI interactions have modest impacts (1.14g CO₂ per text page), cumulative effects are su...
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Spoor's Bird Monitoring AI Software Takes Flight
Spoor's AI-powered software uses cameras to detect and identify birds with 96% accuracy, helping industries like wind farms minimize avian collisions through operational adjustments. The technology addresses a regulatory gap by replacing outdated manual monitoring, and its applications are expand...
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Google's VaultGemma: Secure, Private AI for Sensitive Data
Google has launched VaultGemma, a new large language model that uses differential privacy to protect sensitive information during training, making it suitable for industries like healthcare and finance. The model is open-sourced for researchers and developers to experiment with privacy-preserving...
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Nvidia's AI Chip Push in China Gains Traction
Chinese authorities have conditionally approved major tech firms like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase hundreds of thousands of Nvidia's advanced H200 AI chips, marking a significant shift from previous stringent U.S. export controls. U.S. policy has shifted toward regulated commercial...
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OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank Partner on Five New Stargate Data Centers
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are collaborating to build five advanced AI data centers in the U.S. as part of the Stargate project, which will require a massive seven gigawatts of power—enough for over five million households. Oracle will develop three sites in Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest, ...
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China Approves Import of Nvidia's High-End AI Chips
China has approved three major tech firms, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent, to import over 400,000 of Nvidia's advanced H200 AI chips, marking a shift from a previous weeks-long suspension of these shipments. The H200 chip represents a significant performance leap, being roughly six times more capa...
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RadixArk Spins Out With $400M Valuation Amid AI Inference Boom
RadixArk, the commercial company behind the open-source AI inference tool SGLang, has raised funding at a valuation of approximately $400 million, reflecting a trend of open-source projects becoming high-value startups. The company focuses on optimizing AI inference processing to make models run ...
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Adobe sued for allegedly using authors' work to train AI
Adobe faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books, including the author's works, from the controversial Books3 dataset to train its SlimLM AI language model. This case is part of a broader pattern of legal challenges against tech firms like Apple and Salesforce, highlighting indus...
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ChatGPT Health: AI Analyzes Your Medical Records
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a specialized feature designed to securely integrate personal health data to provide personalized wellness support and act as a comprehensive health assistant. The expansion is controversial due to documented risks of AI providing dangerously inaccurate medical...
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Who Polices Police AI? Perplexity's Deal Alarms Experts
A new AI program is being offered to police departments to analyze evidence and generate reports, raising significant concerns about accountability and safety in law enforcement. Experts warn that even routine administrative uses of AI, like summarizing transcripts, pose serious risks of errors t...
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