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Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex
Attackers launched 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state threats on Microsoft customers daily, including ransomware attacks, in the last year, according to the tech giant.
AI model that checks for skin cancer shows promise
Scientists developed a way of using artificial intelligence to check for skin cancer with the AI tool, which was trained on data from 53,601 skin lesions from 25,105 patients, outperforming existing methods in a new study.
People sympathize with bullied AI bots
In a new study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from playtime.
Qualtrics: AI Training and Guidance a Problem For Australian Employees
Future AI programs will depend on employee engagement and skills.
Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics
A new method can train a neural network to sort corrupted data while anticipating next steps. It can make flexible plans for robots, generate high-quality video, and help AI agents navigate digital environments.
IBM: Enterprise IT Facing Imminent AI Agent Revolution
IBM warns that enterprise IT is on the brink of an AI agent revolution, exploring its implications for businesses and technology's future.
Equipping doctors with AI co-pilots
Alumni-founded Ambience Healthcare automates routine tasks for clinicians before, during, and after patient visits.
When AI Misses the Mark: Why Tech Buyers Face Project Failures
New research found that 11% of U.K. businesses have at least 50 AI projects stuck in the planning phase, which could be because the technology simply can’t bring value.
Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Microsoft’s Siva Sundaramoorthy provides a blueprint for how common cyber precautions apply to generative AI deployed in and around security systems.
Upscale Your Video Content for Just $36
Transform your video content with AI-powered tools to upscale, enhance, and stabilize footage, whether you're editing for work or personal projects.
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.
