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Nvidia and Intel unveil advanced HPC initiatives, bolstering AI capabilities at SC2023

The world’s fastest supercomputers are getting faster with both Nvidia and Intel racing to accelerate the most powerful computing systems on Earth, with a big emphasis on AI power. At the Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) conference in Denver today, the list of the world’s fastest 500 supercomputers was released. In one form or another, all the systems have components from Nvidia or Intel, and in…
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OpenAI’s six-member board will decide ‘when we’ve attained AGI’

According to OpenAI, the six members of its nonprofit board of directors will determine when the company has “attained AGI” —  which it defines as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.” Thanks to a for-profit arm that is “legally bound to pursue the Nonprofit’s mission,” once the board decides AGI, or artificial general…
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Inside Visa’s AI-powered war against holiday fraud

The holiday shopping season is a double-edged sword for payments leader Visa. While transaction volumes surge, providing a sales boost, the period also kicks off a relentless assault from cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerabilities and steal consumer data. “We know…
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Meta engineer: Only two nuclear power plants needed to fuel AI inference next year

Meta’s director of engineering for Generative AI, Sergey Edunov, has a surprising answer to how much more power will be needed to handle the increasing demand for AI applications for the next year: just two new nuclear power plants. Edunov leads Meta’s training efforts for its Llama 2 open-source foundation model, which is considered one of the leading models. Speaking during a panel session I…
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FTC hosts challenge to stop harms of voice cloning AI

Voice cloning — the practice of mimicking someone’s voice so well it can pass for the real thing — has had a banner year, with a range of AI startups and techniques emerging to enable it, and a song going viral featuring voice clones of popular music artists Drake and…
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AI video generating hardware: Hands-on with the 1stAI Machine

‘Is this what AI hardware should look like?‘ That’s been one of the many questions percolating around my mind since the beginning of this month, when I saw Cristóbal Valenzuela, the CEO of well-funded generative AI video startup Runway ML post a video clip to his X account of something called the “1stAI Machine.” Valenzuela called it “the first physical device for video editing…
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