Google Deepmind hackathon to pit meatbags v machines
…Run AI models and humans through the same cognitive benchmarks, say DeepMinders, and you'll get a good estimate of when a single AI is able to meet or exceed human capabilities…
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India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants
…No AI required. Independent of the elephantine AI announcements, India’s railways last week revealed they’re using AI to help with maintenance and operational resilience. SAP expands Japanese cloud SAP last…
Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data, not vice versa
…Snowflake kicked off the year by announcing a partnership with Google that brought the Chocolate Factory's Gemini model into Snowflake’s Cortex AI, its application-to-inference service. It also announced…
HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz
…If you’re thinking about local AI, HP IQ begs the question: why not just install your own LLM models using tools such as Ollama ? Could you not accomplish many of these…
If AI agents mess up, there's nobody to sue
…It also signals AI risk redistribution with unknown parameters," she said. "Organizations that fail to immediately adopt defensible AI, make AI-ready data 'AI-decision-making ready' and extensively overhaul ML model…
Meta reveals custom AI chips it says beat Nvidia
…An evolution of the MTIA 300 that can support generative AI models and R&R workloads. Meta says it is the first of its chips with “raw performance competitive with leading commercial…
Microsoft promises multi database wrangling hub on Fabric
…have announced transactional database services within their platforms. Last year, Snowflake launched a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under…
OpenAI kills Sora, becomes product assassin
AI + ML OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? OpenAI on Wednesday announced the death of its controversial Sora video creation…
OpenAI and Oracle reportedly abandon TX Stargate expansion
…Since announcing the $500 billion Stargate initiative just over a year ago, OpenAI has tapped Oracle to deploy 4.5 gigawatts of compute capacity to fuel model development and services. That contract…
Make bad moves on AI and face voter backlash, govts warned
…At the same time, the UK government has gone all-in on AI, announcing its AI Opportunities Action Plan last year that will see datacenters peppered across the land, especially in dedicated…