California Governor Gavin Newsom is considering 38 AI-related bills, including SB 1047, which addresses issues like existential risk, deepfake nudes, and AI clones of dead performers. He has signed nine of them into law, which are among the most far-reaching AI laws in the US. The state is working to harness AI to address pressing challenges while studying its risks.
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Microsoft partnered with Constellation Energy to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island to meet its data center power needs. The deal bucks the trend of nuclear power's decline, with seven reactors decommissioned in the US in the last decade. The number of data centers has exploded, with over 10,000 worldwide, and is expected to grow by 29-166% by 2030, consuming 4% of US electricity currently and potentially 9% by the end of the decade.
2024-09-23 08:10:58 PM |
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has been planning a comeback after taking huge losses from investments like WeWork. He has largely disappeared from the public eye since then. SoftBank is now betting big on AI and has found success by taking chip design company Arm public. Son admits that maybe they were a little too early with AI.
2024-09-22 09:20:58 PM |
Microsoft has signed a deal with Constellation Energy to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant by 2028 to power its data centers. The plant, which closed in 2019, will require a $1.6 billion investment to revive its reactor. The deal aims to ensure a stable energy supply for Microsoft's large language models.
2024-09-20 02:10:55 PM |
California Governor Gavin Newsom is considering 38 AI-related bills, including SB 1047, which addresses issues like existential risk, deepfake nudes, and AI clones of dead performers. He has signed eight of them into law, which are among the most far-reaching AI laws in the US. The state is working to harness AI to address pressing challenges while studying its risks.
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Amazon has debuted an AI assistant for its sellers, code-named Project Amelia, which will initially be available in beta to U.S. sellers. The assistant is built on AWS's Amazon Bedrock and will help sellers manage and grow their business by answering questions about their metrics. The feature will roll out to select U.S. sellers immediately, followed by a broader rollout across the U.S. and later in other countries and languages.
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Fathom, an AI notetaker, raised $17 million in its Series A round, led by Telescope partners, with $2 million coming from crowdfunding on Wefunder. The company's revenue increased by 90x and usage by 20x over the last two years. Fathom launched in 2020 and previously raised a $4.7 million seed round in early 2022.
AIFathom | Rating: 60 | 2024-09-19 01:10:24 PM |
OpenAI revealed its latest flagship generative model, o1, which takes longer to think about questions before answering them, breaking down problems and checking its own answers. The model excels in tasks like physics and math, despite having fewer parameters than OpenAI's previous top-performing model, GPT-4o. This has implications for AI regulation, particularly in California.
2024-09-18 05:10:46 PM |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three laws regulating AI deepfakes that could influence elections, requiring large online platforms to remove or label such content and create channels to report it. Two other laws prohibit Hollywood studios from creating AI clones of actors' bodies or voices without consent. The laws aim to harness AI technologies to address pressing challenges while studying their risks.
2024-09-18 12:30:56 AM |
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has announced a new AI feature called Easy Lens, which allows creators to translate plain-English descriptions into Lenses, a type of augmented reality object. The feature is available in Snap's developer platform, Lens Studio, and uses generative AI models to parse written descriptions and build Lenses using Lens Studio components. Additionally, Snap is rolling out Body Morph, a tool for creating 3D characters, and an image generator for creating icons for Lenses.
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