This Week’s News

  1. Electric car racing Formula E uses AI to meet zero emission targets. [Link]

  2. The Gates foundation and OpenAI launch a 59 million USD initiative in Africa. [Link]

  3. Tech workers from Google, OpenAI and others demand that their CEO’s contact the White House to demand an end to ICE immigration raids. [Link]

  4. Microsoft has launched a new chip, the Maia 200, designed for faster AI inference. [Link]

  5. The European Union has officially opened an investigation into Grok over sexualized images. [Link]

  6. Apple Computer plans to revise its Siri application to act as a chatbot. [Link]

  7. The U.S. state of Georgia pushes laws to ban construction of AI Datacenter over water and power shortage fears. [Link]

  8. Kristilina Geoergieva, the head of the IMF says that young people will be most affected by a ‘tsunami’ of job losses due to AI. [Link]

  9. The UK government backs down on approval for an AI data center after protesters push back. [Link]

  10. Northhamptonshire county council is using AI to reduce instances of ‘fly tipping’ i.e. illegal waste dumping. [Link]

  11. The United States and Japan have signed an agreement to collaborate on AI Quantum Computing and other cutting edge technologies. [Link]

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