Google’s cybersecurity forecast sees AI playing a big role
Google Cloud released its cybersecurity and cybercrime forecast for 2024 and the threat from AI is at the top of its list. Scammers have used phishing…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
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31 Countries endorse US guardrails for military use of AI
During her visit to the UK for the AI Safety Summit, US VP Kamala Harris announced that 30 countries joined the US in endorsing its proposed…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Nvidia sets new AI training records in MLPerf benchmarks
Nvidia scaled and optimized its Eos AI supercomputer to set new MLPerf AI training benchmark records. When Nvidia switched its AI supercomputer Eos on in May,…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#12 – AI gets into snacks, and Grok tries to be funny
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s artisanal hand-typed AI news. This week AI brought back a Beatle. Deepfakes made vegans eat meat. And China wants…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
Deepfake awareness campaign turns vegans into meat lovers
Steak-umm was faced with some angry vegans after confronting them with video evidence of them eating and enjoying meat. The company produces 100% beef sandwiches and…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Huawei takes on Nvidia with its own AI chips
The export restrictions that the US government placed on Nvidia are creating a ready market in China for Huawei’s new AI chips. Huawei developed its Ascend…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
China aims to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2025
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released guidelines for the development of an industry ecosystem to mass-produce humanoid robots. The document says that AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Grok LLM details and how it stacks up against ChatGPT
Elon Musk announced the beta launch of xAI’s chatbot called Grok and initial stats are giving us an idea of how it stacks up against other…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
UN hires AI company to help with Israeli-Palestinian war
Slovakian startup CulturePulse is a social media analytics company and the UN is hoping it can use AI to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. CulturePulse uses…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Australian academics apologize for false AI-generated claims
A group of Australian academics found out the hard way that AI chatbots don’t always tell the truth and need to be fact-checked. The group of…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read