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A hot generative AI summer is here. Get ready to sweat | The AI Beat

A year ago, the phrase “generative AI” had rarely appeared among the flood of jargon in my inbox. In July 2022, I had received a few missives from Meta about a multimodal “generative AI” prototype called “Make-A-Scene,” and a handful of emails that referenced “generative AI” text-to-image models like DALL·E and Imagen. But I’m pretty sure the term “generative AI” was not…
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AWS exec downplays existential threat of AI, calls it a ‘mathematical parlor trick’

While there are some big names in the technology world that are worried about a potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Matt Wood, VP of product at AWS, is not one of them. Wood has long been a standard bearer for machine learning (ML) at AWS and is a fixture at the company’s events. For the past 13 years, he has been one of the leading voices at AWS on AI/ML…
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MobileNews

Samsung's Galaxy Watch 5 falls to a new low of $199

Here’s your chance to get a Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 for a price lower than anything we’ve seen it go for on Amazon. You can get the Galaxy Watch 5 for as low as $199, or 29 percent less than its retail price. The price applies to the 40mm Bluetooth smartwatches in…
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Valve raises concerns about legality of AI in game development

Valve has expressed hesitation about allowing games with AI assets onto the Steam store. Several game developers recently came forward saying their games were rejected by Valve for this reason, and today Valve released a statement expressing reservations about allowing such games given the current state of AI and copyright law. A Valve spokesperson said in a statement published to…
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DefenseNews

Striking workers at key Boeing supplier approve new contract

WICHITA, Kan. — Workers at Spirit AeroSystems have ratified a new contract and will end a brief strike that threatened to disrupt the manufacturing of airline jets at Boeing. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said the 6,000 employees at a…
DefenseNews

Defense Innovation Unit seeks proposals to ship cargo using rockets

WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking pitches from commercial space companies to provide “novel” launch capabilities for delivering cargo around the globe, into space and within space, from one orbit to another. The Pentagon’s commercial innovation hub released a solicitation June 30 for a Novel Responsive Space Delivery effort, which aims to work with companies to prototype…
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