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UK Clears Alphabet’s Partnership with Anthropic of Competition Concerns

Google’s parent company has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the AI startup and owns a 10% stake. Meanwhile, the Claude models are hosted with Google Cloud services.

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Over £11.5 Million Lost to UK Online Shopping Fraud During Christmas 2023

This marks at least a £1.1 million increase over the previous year, and Britain's cyber chief says that AI is partly to blame.

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Physical AI startup BrightAI bootstraps to $80M in revenue

When Alex Hawkinson was the CEO of SmartThings, the consumer-focused connected devices company he co-founded and sold to Samsung for around $200 million, he kept thinking that Internet of Things (IoT) technology could probably solve bigger issues. He left SmartThings in 2018 to figure out where connected devices could make the largest impact. He co-founded […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Microsoft Ignite 2024 Unveils Groundbreaking AI, Security, and Teams Innovations

Microsoft Ignite 2024 unveils groundbreaking AI, security, and Teams innovations, shaping the future of enterprise tech and digital transformation.

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How to Use Gemini in Google Sheets: Basic & Advanced Use Cases

Learn how to prompt Gemini to produce content and calculations that you can export or copy to a Google Sheet.

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NTT Data: CISOs Most Negative About Generative AI

According to NTT Data's Global GenAI Report, generative AI poses problems with security, infrastructure, sustainability, and bias.

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Study identifies strategy for AI cost-efficiency in health care settings

A study has identified strategies for using large language models (LLMs), a type of artificial intelligence (AI), in health systems while maintaining cost efficiency and performance. The findings provide insights into how health systems can leverage advanced AI tools to automate tasks efficiently, saving time and reducing operational costs while ensuring these models remain reliable even under high task loads.

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Dell Unveils New AI-Powered Infrastructure at SC24 Conference

Dell unveils AI infrastructure, liquid-cooled servers, and services at SC24, driving enterprise AI acceleration and innovation.

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Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall.

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Invisible touch: AI can feel and measure surfaces

Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances -- opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other applications.

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ANZ CIO Challenges: AI, Cybersecurity & Data Analytics for 2025

ANZ government CIOs face budget constraints while prioritizing AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics for productivity gains and digital transformation in 2025.

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Ensuring a durable transition

Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.

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AI Market Trends: Key Insights & How Enterprises Should Adapt

AI market trends for 2024 reveal key shifts in regulation, data, and innovation. Experts share how enterprises should adapt to stay competitive.

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Georgia Tech Chip Design Program Empowers the Apple Workforce of Tomorrow

Apple welcomed Georgia Tech into the New Silicon Initiative program, which pairs universities with Apple mentors to promote semiconductor engineering.

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Experts urge complex systems approach to assess artificial intelligence risks

Scientists point out that a coherent approach to understanding the threats posed by artificial intelligence is still elusive. They call for a complex systems perspective to better assess and mitigate these risks, particularly in light of long-term uncertainties and complex interactions between AI and society.

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Slack Report: Is AI Adoption Heading for a Plateau?

The Fall 2024 Workforce Study from Slack found that employees might not want to discuss AI with their managers for fear of being perceived as “lazy.”

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Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

An AI method developed by Professor Markus Buehler finds hidden links between science and art to suggest novel materials.

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3 Questions: Inverting the problem of design

MIT and IBM researchers are creating linkage mechanisms to innovate human-AI kinematic engineering.

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ACS: 12 Steps to Address Australia’s Skills Shortage

The Australian Computer Society offers key recommendations for tackling Australia’s tech skills shortage and boosting the nation’s digital workforce.

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New medical AI tool identifies more cases of long COVID from patient health records

Researchers have developed a new precision AI tool to identify hidden cases of long COVID from patient medical records. Their new approach was more accurate than tools that look only at diagnostic codes, and found that 22.8 percent of the population experience symptoms of long COVID, a greater figure than previous estimates that may be less biased and more representative of national trends, according to the study's authors.

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