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 The next wave of game-changing AI models will soon be upon us - "agent" style models that'll be able to take over entire ongoing tasks and jobs with full autonomy. Anthropic's newest AI model gives us a sneak peek, by taking over your whole computer.
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AI & Humanoids, Technology
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 Earlier this month, Apple announced a new iPad mini for the first time in three years. Ahead of the device launching this Wednesday, we have outlined 12 new features and changes with the seventh-generation iPad mini compared to the previous model.
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke, actress Julianne Moore and novelist Kazuo Ishiguro joined creatives protesting use of their work to train algorithms without consent.
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OpenAI and Microsoft are funding projects to bring more AI tools into the newsroom. The duo will give grants of up to $10 million to Chicago Public Media, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday (in Long Island, NY), The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Seattle Times. Each of the publications will hire a two-year AI fellow to develop projects for implementing the technology and improving business sustainability. Three more outlets are expected to receive fellowship grants in a second round.
OpenAI and Microsoft are each contributing $2.5 million in direct funding as well as $2.5 million in software and enterprise credits. The Lenfest Institute of Journalism is collaborating with OpenAI and Microsoft on the project, and announced the news today.
To date, the ties between journalism and AI have mostly ranged from suspicious to litigious. OpenAI and Microsoft have been sued by the Center for Investigative Reporting, The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet. Some publications accused ChatGPT of plagiarizing their articles, and other suits centered on scraping web content for AI model training without permission or compensation. Other media outlets have opted to negotiate;
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Tennr, the company automating the messy, manual work holding healthcare organizations back, is announcing the completion of a Series B funding round?led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from existing investors a16z and Foundation Capital?having raised $37 million. Bringing Tennr's total capital raised to over $61 million, the latest funding will continue to support the company's technological breakthroughs in document automation for the healthcare industry.
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A Canadian research firm called TechInsights took a deep dive on one of Huawei's artificial intelligence accelerators and found a chip manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Bloomberg spoke with several people familiar with the investigation who asked to remain anonymous since TechInsights' report has been released to the public.
The anonymous sources says TechInsights' investigation found an Ascend 910B chip made by TSMC in one of Huawei's AI accelerators. The company that conducted the investigation declined to comment.
The US Commerce Department implemented additional trade restrictions against Huawei that barred the electronics company from obtaining chips made by foreign firms. Earlier this year, the US government tightened its restrictions even further by revoking its licenses with Intel and Qualcomm to produce chips for its devices.
TSMC denied that it had a working relationship with Huawei since mid-September of 2020 in a statement provided to the Commerce Department. TSMC also told Bloomberg that it hasn't produced any chips for Huawei due to the amended restrictions. Huawei denied that it had ever "launched the 910B chip."
This isn't the first time Huawei has been caught trying to subvert US sanctions and trade restrictions. Bloomberg also unco
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Is the tech billionaire breaking the law? We may soon find out.
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SlashNext, the leader in next-gen AI cloud email and communications security, is launching Project Phantom, the Zero-Trust Steal Mode Browsers capable of seeing through obfuscation techniques employed by threat actors. With the aim of delivering advanced protection against phishing and malware, Project Phantom uncovers the myriad threats hiding behind the guise of common cybersecurity practices.
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