AI News - Monday, August 20, 2023

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💌 Welcome to Our AI Weekly Roundup! 💌

We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

  1. South Korean game company NCSoft releases their Varco LLM for game development. [Link]

  2. OpenAI makes its first acquisition, Global Illumination (GI). GI is a software products company using AI for game development. [Link]

  3. Bland.ai creates an API to facilitate AI phone calls. [Link]

  4. IBM study indicates that forty per cent of IT workers will have to reskill or face losing their jobs. [Link]

  5. AMD commissions study showing half of IT companies face risk by lagging behind in AI integration. [Link]

  6. UK Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden predicts that AI will be more impactful than the Industrial Revolution. [Link]

  7. With AI and Neurotech, researchers can identify the name of a song simply by recording you thinking about it. [Link]

  8. The United States and the PRC are both accelerating developments in intelligent drone swarms for military use. [Link]

  9. U.S. Federal Judge rules that AI generated art cannot be copyrighted. [Link]

  10. The Associated Press releases its standards and guidelines for AI generated news content. [Link]

  11. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates acquiring thousands of NVidia AI chips to power their AI initiatives. [Link]

  12. Dubai poised to take a lead in AI development. [Link]

  13. U.S. President Joe Biden issues executive order restricting AI technology to the PRC. [Link]