ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of September 6th
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Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI for this AI Weekly Recap. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share the most impactful AI news & developments, bringing the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community. Subscribe to get this as a newsletter sent to your inbox every Friday!
Open Data Science AI News Blog Recap
Indiana University Leads $7.5 Million Defense-Funded Research on AI’s Role in Misinformation and Radicalization (Source)
US, Britain, and EU Set to Sign AI Treaty (Source)
Salesforce Expands AI Ambitions with Acquisition of Tenyx (Source)
Zillow’s AI-Powered Home Search Gets Smarter with NLP Features (Source)
Breaking: OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s New AI Safety Startup SSI Raises $1 Billion (Source)
AI May Not Steal Jobs But Instead Could Drive Greater Efficiency (Source)
Clearview AI Fined €30.5 Million by Dutch Watchdog for Illegal Facial Recognition Database (Source)
AI News Highlights
AI’s impact on elections is being overblown
Here’s how ed-tech companies are pitching AI to teachers
Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can’t Play Top Games — and There’s No Quick Fix
Self-learning AI makes NFL against the spread, over-under, money-line picks for every 2024 Week 1 game
Apple Rally Fueled by AI Promises Approaches a Crucial Test
Lloyds and Cleareye Launch AI-Centric Trade Finance Partnership
AI likely to weigh on oil prices over the next decade, Goldman says
Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase
Apple’s iPhone 16 launch is a big test for consumer AI
Regulators turn to math to determine when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous
Cangrade to Present at MassTLC’s Tech Hot Topic Conference on Building an AI-Ready Tech Workforce
YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training
North Carolina Musician Accused of $10M Streaming Fraud With AI-Generated Songs
Tesla reveals AI product/self-driving roadmap, and it raises questions
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New Trending Open Source Projects
RB-Modulation is a Training-Free Personalization of Diffusion Models using Stochastic Optimal Control
Cache-Cool is a simple LLM caching proxy for saving your LLM calls.
Kids Care AI IOT Device, A Raspberry Pi USB Mic voice detection and Picamera fall detection.
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New Trending Research From Around The Globe
Training Ultra Long Context Language Model with Fully Pipelined Distributed Transformer — Paper
CogVLM2: Visual Language Models for Image and Video Understanding — Paper
Mini-Omni: Language Models Can Hear, Talk While Thinking in Streaming — Paper
rerankers: A Lightweight Python Library to Unify Ranking Methods — Paper
LinFusion: 1 GPU, 1 Minute, 16K Image — Paper
ContextCite: Attributing Model Generation to Context — Paper
FLUX that Plays Music — Paper
Start-Up Funding News
California-based Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence, raised $1B in Series Funding
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, a developer of nature-inspired foundation models for transformative artificial intelligence, raised $100M in Series A Funding
Beijing-based Infinigence, a provider of AGI computing power solutions based on its large model energy efficiency optimization tools, raised CN¥500M in Series A Funding
London-based Doccla, a virtual ward company who are the pioneers of tech-agnostic virtual wards, raised £35M in Series A Funding
Israel-based Hypernative, a software development company that protects digital assets using AI, raised $16M in Series A Funding
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