
Tech Meme - 51 min 25 sec ago
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries — EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules …...

Tech Meme - 4 hours 6 min ago
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech …...

The Next Web - 5 hours 11 min ago
South Africa's Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National AI Safety Institute, and an AI Insurance Superfund. It outlined five pillars of AI governance: skills capacity, responsible governance, ethical […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Hill - 5 hours 33 min ago
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Google to provide AI models to Pentagon for classified work Google has signed a deal with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence (AI) models for classified work, despite concerns raised by hundreds of employees this week over the terms of the agreement. AP The Pentagon reached...

Daily Signal - 5 hours 44 min ago
Florida Speaker of the House Daniel Perez, a Republican, announced that he will not bring Gov. Ron DeSantis’ artificial intelligence safeguard bill to a vote. “There were no bills filed on these policies prior to the start of the special session,” Perez said. “Consequently, we will not be taking up those issues.” Instead, the House...

ABC News - 7 hours 6 min ago
Amazon announced what it called a "major expansion" of its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday, a day after the artificial intelligence company said it was loosening its ties to longtime backer Microsoft...

Tech Meme - 8 hours 6 min ago
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos — Apple Inc. is planning a major overhaul of the built-in photo-editing features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac, leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to better compete with Android devices.

IEEE Spectrum - 8 hours 32 min ago
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta's latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that define the model. As models grow in size, their capabilities increase. But so do the energy demands and the time it takes to run the models, which increases their carbon footprint ...

IEEE Spectrum - 8 hours 36 min ago
Many of the world's most advanced electronic systems including Internet routers , wireless base stations , medical imaging scanners , and some artificial intelligence tools depend on field-programmable gate arrays . Computer chips with internal hardware circuits, the FPGAs can be reconfigured after manufacturing. On 12 March, an IEEE Milestone plaque recognizing the first FPGA was dedicated at the Advanced Micro Devices campus in San Jose, Calif., the former Xilinx headquarters and the birthplace...

NY Post - 8 hours 46 min ago
The high-stakes trial over the future of artificial intelligence began Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, Calif. but not before Elon Musk jumped ahead of opening statements with a flurry of social media posts sticking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with the moniker "Scam Altman." Ahead of opening statements, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers...

The Guardian - 9 hours 38 min ago
Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee opposition Google has reportedly signed a deal with the US Pentagon to use its artificial intelligence models for classified work. The tech company joins a growing list of Silicon Valley firms inking agreements with US military. The agreement allows the Pentagon to use Google's AI for "any lawful government purpose", the report from the Information added, putting it alongside OpenAI...

Fortune - 9 hours 52 min ago
Intellectual property attorney Josh Gerben says that the trademarks are "specifically designed to protect Taylor from threats posed by artificial intelligence," in response to growing concerns that AI could challenge celebrities' abilities to control their voices and likenesses without their consent.

Tech Meme - 10 hours 41 min ago
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg : Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~$37B, below $44.5B est., and a record ~$1.5B net income, below $1.8B est. — Foxconn Industrial Internet Co. benefited less than expected from China's artificial intelligence boom as sales and earnings growth fell short of lofty expectations.

ABC News - 16 hours 1 min ago
Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius...

Newser - 16 hours 20 min ago
Archaeologists and researchers at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that smothered the city, offering a new way to understand one of history's most famous...

The Guardian - 17 hours 35 min ago
Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence The self-published zine has long been central to cultural revolutions, from queer activism to Black feminism and the riot grrrl punk movement, producing titles such as Sniffin' Glue and Sweet-Thang along the way. But now the traditionally analogue art form faces a new shift: artificial intelligence. AI may seem incompatible with the these cult DIY booklets, but some creatives, designers...

The Independent - 19 hours 36 min ago
With 29 per cent of British firms struggling to scale artificial intelligence, Amit Mehrotra of Tata Communications explains why modernising fragmented infrastructure is the key to unlocking the government's growth agenda...