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AI Medical Advice Risks: 22% Harm Rate with Copilot Use
Study reveals alarming risks of AI medical advice from Copilot and highlights the urgent need for professional guidance in healthcare.
Google signed a deal to power data centers with nuclear micro-reactors from Kairos — but the 2030 timeline is very optimistic
With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs Sold Out: Demand Surges, What’s Next?
The supply of next-gen processors is sold out for the next 12 months as company demand for more sophisticated AI models and applications continues unabated.
Red Hat: AI Is the Most In-Demand Skill in the UK for 2024
It has overtaken strategic thinking and the ability to tackle business-level issues.
How to Solve Memory Bottlenecks Impeding AI Apps
The capabilities of artificial intelligence applications and modern processors, such as GPUs, are beginning to exceed data center architectures. While the intense power and cooling demands of generative AI are well reported, relatively little has been set about the memory bottleneck that currently pegs AI performance. But that is changing due to memory innovation. AI ...
Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck. Startups are looking to make data centers more […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Researchers question AI’s ‘reasoning’ ability as models stumble on math problems with trivial changes
How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new paper making the rounds Friday suggests that the answer is, at least for now, a pretty clear “no.” A […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Here’s the full list of 44 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
AMD Reveals Fleet of Chips for Heavy AI Workloads
From commercial devices to data centers, AMD continues to try to knock Intel and NVIDIA further down the leaderboard of heavy-duty AI processors.
The Latest Call Center IVR Upgrades Are Slashing Wait Times
Discover some of the newest call center IVR features plus how they impact agents, customers, and your average wait time.
Deepfakes Can Fool Facial Recognition on Crypto Exchanges
Creating new accounts under fake identities provides attackers with a way to launder money or commit fraud.
APAC Concerns Grow Over Foreign AI Monopolies, Competition
Japanese and South Korean competition regulators commence probes.
Is Automated IVR Testing Reliable? Yes, With Oversight
IVR testing is a critical part of ensuring your system performs as it should. Automated testing is ideal, as long as it is done responsibly.
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Making an IVR Recording Is Easy: Here Are 4 Places to Start
You can pay every time you need to create or update an IVR recording — or you can use this guide to make your own in a few minutes.
Babbel co-founder Markus Witte will once again run the company, replacing CEO Arne Schepker
Arne Schepker, the CEO of the popular Berlin-based language learning platform Babbel, is stepping down, and the company’s co-founder and former CEO Markus Witte is stepping back in to lead the company “into a new phase while searching for Arne’s successor with patience,” the company said. This new phase, unsurprisingly, will involve AI. Witte will not […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Dovetail CEO Advocates for a Balanced Approach to AI Innovation, Regulation
Enterprises are demanding “human in the loop” safeguards due to a lack of trust in AI.
Can advanced AI can solve visual puzzles and perform abstract reasoning?
Artificial Intelligence has learned to master language, generate art, and even beat grandmasters at chess. But can it crack the code of abstract reasoning --t hose tricky visual puzzles that leave humans scratching their heads? Researchers are putting AI's cognitive abilities to the test, pushing the multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) to solve visual problems once reserved for human IQ tests. The result? A glimpse into how far AI has come -- and where it still stumbles.
20% of Generative AI ‘Jailbreak’ Attacks Succeed, With 90% Exposing Sensitive Data
On average, it takes adversaries just 42 seconds and five interactions to execute a GenAI jailbreak, according to Pillar Security.
Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
Collaborative multi-university team will pursue new AI-enhanced design tools and high-throughput testing methods for next-generation turbomachinery.
