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Amazon Levels Up Machine Learning Chops in $80M Perceive Acquisition

Amazon plans to acquire edge inferencing specialist Perceive for $80 million in cash.

OpenAI Backs California AI Watermarking Bill

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is backing a California bill that would require tech companies to label content generated by AI in the form of a digital "watermark." The proposed legislation, AB 3211, known as the "California Digital Content Provenance Standards," aims to ensure transparency in digital media by identifying content created through artificial intelligence. This requirement would apply to a broad range of AI-generated material, from harmless memes to deepfakes that could be used to spread misinformation about political candidates.

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The Week in AI: Nvidia's Lightweight AI Model, Wiliot's GenAI Chatbot, Salesforce's AI Agents, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes Nvidia's new Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B lightweight language model, Wiliot's new "WiliBot" GenAI chatbot that facilitates natural-language interactions with IoT-connected devices, Salesforce's new Einstein Sales Development Rep and Einstein Sales Coach Agent AI-powered agents, and more.

Anthropic CEO Backs New California AI Legislation, with Some Reservations

Anthropic announces its support to an amended version of California’s Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047), the "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act," because of revisions to the bill the company helped to influence, but not without some reservations.

Microsoft Unveils Phi 3.5-Mini-Instruct Model in Latest AI Advancement

Microsoft announces the release of its Phi-3.5-Mini-Instruct model, the latest addition to its Phi-3 model collection.

NVIDIA Unveils GenAI Model to Enhance Extreme Weather Predictions

NVIDIA Research announces a new generative AI model for emulating high-fidelity atmospheric dynamics called StormCast to enhance the accuracy of weather forecasts, particularly at the mesoscale—a critical range for disaster planning that lies between storm and cyclone scales.

Sway AI Integrates Low-code/No-Code AI Platform with Microsoft Azure

Sway AI today announced the integration of its flagship low-code/no-code AI environment with Microsoft Azure, enabling Azure customers to build and deploy secure AI and machine learning (ML) applications directly within the Azure ecosystem.

The Week in AI: Anthropic's Prompt Caching, GitHub's Autofix Copilot, Neural Magic's LLM Compressor, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes GitHub's Autofix Copilot, Lambda Labs and Nous Research's Hermes 3, Neural Magic's LLM Compressor, Primate Labs' Geekbench AI 1.0, and more.

California Senate Bill to Regulate AI Advances to Assembly Vote with Key Amendments

California’s Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047), the "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act," spearheaded by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), clears the Assembly Appropriations Committee with some significant amendments.

CloudBees Acquires Launchable to Enhance GenAI Capabilities in DevSecOps Platform

CloudBees announces the acquisition of Launchable in a move aimed at expanding GenAI optimization capabilities across its DevSecOps platform.

AI21’s Jamba-Instruct LLM Now Available on Azure AI Studio's MaaS

AI21 Labs' instruction-following large language model (LLM), Jamba-Instruct, is now available as a serverless API within Azure AI Studio’s Models-as-a-Service (MaaS). This is the first time Jamba-Instruct has been accessible through a cloud partner, and it represents a significant new collaboration between AI21 and Microsoft in the GenAI space, the companies said.

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How To Train Your Model (Using AWS)

Organizations wondering how they can take advantage of the latest innovations in AI don't have to fully commit to an off-the-shelf LLM like OpenAI's GPT. Instead, they can deploy a custom-trained AI model that's tailored to their specific needs.

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AI Can Help IT Security Teams Go on Offense: CSA

A new paper from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) details how IT teams can use AI to identify and address security weaknesses in their infrastructures.

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