This Week’s News

  1. Researchers at the University of Florida create an optical chip that gives AI tasks a hundred fold boost in efficiency. [Link]

  2. A Bay Area woman successfully used AI to appeal her health care insurance provider’s claim denial. [Link]

  3. Geoffrey Hinton, a leading pioneer of AI says that AI will cause massive unemployment and create massive profits for a limited amount of companies. [Link]

  4. OpenAI is in the news with several announcements:

    1. OpenAI and Broadcom partner to create and deploy customized AI chipsets. [Link]

    2. OpenAI has announced that it is creating an AI powered rival to LinkedIn. [Link]

    3. Several state Attorneys General send warning to OpenAI and others about the behavioral interactions between their LLMs and children, warning that inappropriate communications will not be tolerated. [Link]

  5. A new study sheds light on foundations of human consciousness. [Link]

  6. Hunger strikers protest the development of AGI outside the offices of Anthropic and Google Deepmind. [Link]

  7. Microsoft will pay Anthropic to embed its Claude models into its Office 365 office suite. [Link]

  8. NVidia unveils its Rubin CPX GPU which is designed for LLMs with large context windows. [Link]

  9. Swiss researchers have released a completely open source AI model. [Link]

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