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👀 Financial news site uses AI to copy competitors
🤖 New model enables robots to recognize and follow humans
🔬 Semiconductor giants race to make next generation of cutting-edge chips
💸 Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies
🤝 Microsoft and labor unions form ‘historic’ alliance on AI
👀 Financial news site uses AI to copy competitorsLINK
A major financial news website, Investing.com, is using AI to generate stories that closely mimic those from competitor sites without giving credit.
Investing.com's AI-written articles often replicate the same data and insights found in original human-written content, raising concerns about copyright.
While the site discloses its use of AI for content creation, it fails to attribute the original sources, differentiating it from typical news aggregators.
🤖 New model enables robots to recognize and follow humansLINK
Italian researchers developed a new computational model enabling robots to recognize and follow specific users based on a refined analysis of images captured by RGB cameras.
Robots using this framework can operate on commands given through user's hand gestures and have shown robust performance in identifying people even in crowded spaces.
Although effective, the model must be recalibrated if a person's appearance changes significantly, and future improvements may include advanced learning methods for greater adaptability.
🔬 Semiconductor giants race to make next generation of cutting-edge chipsLINK
Top semiconductor companies including TSMC, Samsung, and Intel are competing to produce advanced "2 nanometer" chips for future technology needs.
While TSMC leads the market, Samsung and Intel are using the shift towards smaller, more efficient chips as an opportunity to challenge its dominance.
The successful development of these next-generation semiconductors is critical as the industry exceeds $500bn in sales, with growth anticipated from AI and data center demand.
💸 Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companiesLINK
Nvidia has significantly increased its investments in AI startups in 2023, participating in 35 deals, which is almost six times more than in 2022, making it the most active large-scale investor in the AI sector.
The investments by Nvidia, primarily through its venture arm NVentures, target companies that are also its customers, with interests in AI platforms and applications in various industries like healthcare and energy.
Nvidia's strategy involves both seeking healthy returns and strategic partnerships, but denies prioritizing its portfolio companies for chip access, despite investing in high-profile AI companies like Inflection AI and Cohere.
🤝 Microsoft and labor unions form ‘historic’ alliance on AILINK
Microsoft is partnering with the AFL-CIO labor union to facilitate discussions on artificial intelligence's impact on the workforce.
The collaboration will include training for labor leaders and workers on AI, with aim to shape AI technology by incorporating workers' perspectives.
This alliance is considered historic as it promises to influence public policy and the future of AI in relation to jobs and unionization at Microsoft.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy is set to launch the US Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane for its seventh mission, experimenting with new technologies in orbit.LINK
TikTok reaches $10 billion in consumer spending, dominating the non-game app market and outrunning rivals like Tinder and YouTube in revenues.LINK
Tech deployment lags behind targets to decarbonize steel and cement production, risking failure to meet 2050 Paris Agreement goals, study indicates.LINK
PwC is acquiring Surfaceink, previously an integral Apple hardware partner, to bolster its own consultancy and service offerings across the tech industry.LINK
New York collaborates with IBM and Micron, investing $10 billion in a cutting-edge chip research complex at Albany NanoTech.LINK
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