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Israel’s AI startups carry on as employees mobilize for war, run to shelters

AI startups in Israel, which have provided some of the country’s biggest tech success stories, are trying to carry on with regular business operations after the violent surprise attack by Hamas left over 900 Israelis killed and hundreds kidnapped over the weekend. At the same time, they are working to support employees who are being called to the front lines of the newly-declared war with…
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Join VentureBeat and Anzu Partners for our first DC meetup: ‘AI ❤️ DC’

VentureBeat is partnering with Anzu Partners on an exclusive gathering for the AI community in Washington DC this coming Thursday, October 26: AI ❤️ DC! Join us for an evening of incisive discussions and high-level networking, spotlighting the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and its implications for national security in the city that’s at the heart of policy and innovation. In attendance…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman foresees ‘breathtaking’ scientific discoveries, muses on geoengineering

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman wasn’t a well known figure outside of the tech sector until recently, but following his company’s rapid ascent to the top of the competitive generative AI landscape propelled by its hit product ChatGPT, and his own “world tour” visiting politicians in different countries, he is becoming an increasingly important and influential voice on the global…
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DeepMind’s ‘remarkable’ new AI controls robots of all kinds 

One of the big challenges of robotics is the amount of effort that has to be put into training machine learning models for each robot, task, and environment. Now, a new project by Google DeepMind and 33 other research institutions aims to address this challenge by creating a general-purpose AI system that can work with different types of physical robots and perform many tasks. “What we have…
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