The UK's Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) has launched a £50 million Scaling Compute program funding twelve research projects, including Fractile's analog in-memory computing project, aimed at dramatically reducing AI hardware costs by developing alternative computing approaches.
Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+, a new AI accelerator board available in 13 TOPS ($70) and 26 TOPS ($110) variants, featuring integrated Hailo technology that enables complex neural network processing for Raspberry Pi computers.
Venture capital firm a16z has shared more about its "Oxygen" program, designed to help AI startups access affordable GPU computing resources. Oxygen aims to address the market imbalance where large tech companies were outbidding smaller players for critical computing resources.
Google has open-sourced SynthID Text, a watermarking tool that modifies language models' token probability distributions to create detectable patterns in AI-generated text, making it available through its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit and Hugging Face's Transformers library.
Anthropic announced several major updates this week, including the launch of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku models, improvements in agentic capabilities, a new computer use API public beta, and a data analysis tool for Claude.ai that lets the assistant write and run code in a sandbox.
News Corp's Dow Jones and The New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement. The lawsuit condemns Perplexity for diverting essential internet traffic from news outlets while freeriding on protected content obtained illicitly from those same outlets.
Alcon Entertainment is suing Tesla and Elon Musk for allegedly using AI-generated imagery that mimicked Blade Runner 2049's aesthetic at Tesla's 'We Robot' event after being denied permission to use actual footage from the film.
DataCrunch, a Nordic AI computing provider, has secured $13 million in seed funding to expand its renewable energy-powered infrastructure and become Europe's first green AI-focused hyperscaler.
Two AI voice startups closed funding rounds, Manifest is using AI to combat the loneliness epidemic, Galileo raised $45M in Series B funding, the creators of Outlines started dottxt, Google upgraded its Shopping and NotebookLM products, Mistral launched two tiny models, and more.
Meta FAIR has released several new open-source AI models and research tools, including an improved SAM 2.1 for image segmentation and Spirit LM for seamless speech-text integration, along with tools for LLM acceleration, cryptography, materials discovery, and cross-lingual processing.
X has updated its Terms and Privacy Policy, suggesting the platform is considering licensing user content to third parties, including for AI model training. The platform also updated its Terms of Service, committing anyone accepting them to paying liquidated damages if caught scraping X's content.
Google DeepMind researchers developed the Habermas Machine (HM), an AI system designed to mediate group discussions by generating consensus statements. The research team found strong endorsement of the AI-generated statements and a shift in the groups' opinion to the majority view after the process.