AI News - March 17, 2024

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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. AI empowers Russia and China with advanced disinformation capabilities, threatening Western unity and election integrity, say US intelligence agencies. [Link]

2. NVidia set to unveil their new Blackwell B100 GPUs, showcasing next-gen computing power at the GPU Technology Conference. [Link]

3. Cognition Labs announces Devin, a fully fledged AI software engineer, promising to revolutionize software development. [Link]

4. Cerebras Systems unveils a new AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine with over four trillion transistors, setting a new benchmark for computing hardware. [Link]

5. Apple acquires Darwin.ai, a Canadian startup, to bolster its AI capabilities, indicating a strategic move in the AI race. [Link]

6. OpenAI forms partnerships with Le Monde and Prisa Media to integrate French and Spanish news content into ChatGPT, enhancing its linguistic diversity. [Link]

7. Figure 1, the humanoid robot by Figure.ai, can now fully converse with humans, demonstrating a leap in robotic communication capabilities. [Link]

8. Assort Health secures $3.5 million to introduce generative AI to healthcare call centers, aiming to transform patient interaction. [Link]

9. Luxury Real Estate in Las Vegas launches Luxora, a generative AI application to revolutionize the home-finding process. [Link]

10. Covariant introduces RFM-1, a foundational model for robots to understand real-world physics, paving the way for smarter automation. [Link]

11. Anthropic’s new Large Language Model, Claude-3 Haiku, offers unprecedented speed and affordability, marking a significant advancement in AI accessibility. [Link]

12. OpenAI’s CTO announces Sora, a text to video application with sound, set to launch later this year, expanding the multimedia capabilities of generative AI. [Link]

13. Anthropic releases a prompt library for Claude, enhancing user interaction with its AI model by providing a curated set of prompts. [Link]

14. Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump in its text to image models ahead of the 2024 elections, addressing concerns over potential misuse. [Link]

15. Amazon introduces a feature enabling sellers to generate web pages for products using an AI tool, simplifying the online selling process. [Link]

16. Mathematicians employ AI to detect emerging Covid-19 variants, showcasing AI’s critical role in addressing global health challenges. [Link]