AI & Robotics

Nearly three years after draft rules were proposed, European Parliament lawmakers approved the AI Act today. The approval, which came a month earlier than expected, is the final endorsement of the first comprehensive regulation around high-risk AI systems, transparency for AI that interacts with humans, and AI systems in regulated products. The act, which required the final endorsement of the EU…

Cerebras and G42 said they have broken ground on Condor Galaxy 3, an AI supercomputer that can hit eight exaFLOPs of performance. That’s a lot of performance which will be delivered over 58 million AI-optimized cores, said Andrew Feldman, CEO of Sunnyvale, California-based Cerebras, in an interview with VentureBeat. And it’s going to G42, a national-scale cloud and generative AI enabler based…

OpenAI continues to share clips of Sora, its impressively smooth and photorealistic generative AI video model, but it remains an internal model only for now. Meanwhile, rivals in the fast-moving video AI space including Pika aren’t letting the moment go to waste. This weekend, Pika added a new feature that allows users to automatically generate sound effects for their AI videos made on the web…

Insilico Medicine, the Hong Kong and New York-based biotech startup that has raised over $400 million to connect biology, chemistry, and clinical trial analysis using next-generation AI systems, announced a new paper today that highlights the journey of what it claims is the first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug — which has now reached Phase II clinical trials. The paper, in Nature…