This Week’s News

  1. Foxconn, Taiwan and NVidia team up to build a supercomputing AI cluster by 2026. [Link]

  2. France will begin investigating Elon Musk and Grok AI after the LLM posted holocaust denials. [Link]

  3. Judges express concern over the use of AI created ‘evidence’ in trials. [Link]

  4. Uber partners with Staship Technologies to deliver Uber Eats orders via robots. [Link]

  5. Google announces its upgrade to Nano Banana image generator, Nano Banana Pro. [Link]

  6. The Trump administration is backing down on fighting state level AI regulations. [Link]

  7. Meta’s chief scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to found his own startup. [Link]

  8. Salesforce and cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike are forming a partnership to address AI cybersecurity issues. [Link]

  9. Levi Strauss is using AI and cloud services to build its Direct to Consumer (DTC) business model. [Link]

  10. The British Royal Navy is using AI to streamline its personnel recruiting process. [Link]

  11. Canada and the UK have signed an agreement to collaborate on increasing compute capabilities for AI. [Link]

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