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An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (restofworld.org)
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Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Permalink to 6 Tasks Where AI Leads in QA (assets.sdtimes.com)
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Permalink to Surviving the AI Takeover in QA: How to Be in the Top 1% (assets.sdtimes.com)
8 days ago AI

College Students Flock To A New Major: AI (news.slashdot.org)
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Meta says it's shifting some of its metaverse investment to AI glasses and wearables “given the momentum” and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that” (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago AI

An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Interview AI chatbot

Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago AI

Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o (essential.ai)
8 days ago Google AI

Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (www.eetimes.com)
9 days ago AI

Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Korea AI

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (cen.acs.org)
9 days ago AI Robot

PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (www.forbes.com)
9 days ago AI

Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China (www.ft.com)
9 days ago IOS China AI Apple

In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago AI

A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (www.fastcompany.com)
9 days ago Amazon AI

The AI Boom Could Increase Prices for Phones and Tablets Next Year (hardware.slashdot.org)
9 days ago AI

Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content (www.wired.com)
9 days ago AI Reddit

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago AI

Meta Confirms 'Shifting Some' Funding 'From Metaverse Toward AI Glasses' (news.slashdot.org)
10 days ago AI

AI Led To an Increase In Radiologists, Not a Decrease (science.slashdot.org)
10 days ago AI

Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+ (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Startup AI Seattle

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Google AI

Meta Acquires AI Wearable Company Limitless (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 days ago AI

Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago AI

Cloudflare Says It Blocked 416 Billion AI Scraping Requests In 5 Months (tech.slashdot.org)
10 days ago AI

Permalink to Pivoting your product to AI? Here's how to manage your engineers and balance business with innovation (sdtimes.com)
10 days ago AI

The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

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