November 2023

Meta’s Yann Lecun joins 70 others in calling for more openness in AI development

November 1, 2023

On the same day the U.K. gathered some of the world’s corporate and political leaders into the same room at Bletchley Park for the AI Safety Summit, more than 70 signatories put their name to a letter calling for a more open approach to AI development. “We are at a critical juncture in AI governance,” […]

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Subaru follows Toyota in adopting Tesla’s charging standard

November 1, 2023

Subaru wants in on Tesla’s Superchargers. On Wednesday, the Japanese automaker said its future electric vehicles will adopt Tesla’s charging port starting in 2025. The move ensures Subaru’s future vehicles will have access to Tesla’s network of “50,000+” chargers. Toyota and Lexus also embraced Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) a couple weeks ago. Since […]

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New AWS service lets customers rent Nvidia GPUs for quick AI projects

November 1, 2023

More and more companies are running large language models, which require access to GPUs. The most popular of those by far are from Nvidia, making them expensive and often in short supply. Renting a long-term instance from a cloud provider when you only need access to these costly resources for a single job, doesn’t necessarily […]

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Google launches generative AI tools for product imagery to U.S. advertisers

November 1, 2023

Following Amazon’s adoption of generative AI for advertisers last week, Google today is launching a set of generative AI product imagery tools for advertisers in the U.S. Via the new, AI-powered Product Studio, merchants will be able to leverage text-to-image AI capabilities to create new product imagery for free, simply by typing in a prompt […]

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