AI News Roundup – September 20, 2024
Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart, power Microsoft data centers
Microsoft and Constellation Energy just unveiled a power purchase deal that would enable a restart of a reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant
axios
Sep 20, 2024
Alibaba accelerates AI push by releasing new open-source models, text-to-video
Alibaba adopts a hybrid approach, releasing open-source AI models and text-to-video tech to challenge dominance of closed-source models
reuters
Sep 19, 2024
Introducing Contextual Retrieval
Anthropic introduces a method that dramatically improves the retrieval step in RAG
anthropic
Sep 19, 2024
Biden administration to host international AI safety meeting in San Francisco after election
The Biden administration will host a global safety summit on artificial intelligence (AI) in November to discuss the quickly developing technology and efforts to mitigate its risks
abcnews
Sep 18, 2024
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running exacts a toll
washington post
Sep 18, 2024
How AI Is Used In War Today
Ukraine-Russia conflict tests AI in warfare. Western companies provide technology to aid Ukrainian forces
forbes
Sep 17, 2024
White House creates AI infrastructure task force
Data center operators and other artificial intelligence company leaders strategized with the Biden administration last week on how to support the burgeoning, power-hungry sector
constructiondive
Sep 17, 2024
Newsom signs laws to protect Hollywood from fake AI actors
The move comes as celebrities from Mark Ruffalo to Rosie Perez speak out about risks of the evolving technology
politico
Sep 17, 2024
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents
Microsoft is launching the next wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing together web + work + Pages as a new design system for knowledge work
microsoft
Sep 16, 2024
Aramco partners with US startup Groq for AI data centre
Saudi Aramco’s digital arm is partnering with US semiconductor startup Groq to build the world’s largest artificial intelligence inferencing data centre
agbi
Sep 16, 2024
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