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AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop launch Ndea, an AI research and science lab focused on “developing and operationalizing AGI” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI

The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based companies, including Alibaba-backed LLM developer Zhipu AI and chip designer Sophgo, to its restricted trade list (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-16 China Alibaba AI

Chinese AI company MiniMax, which has raised ~$850M, debuts three LLMs, including a 456B-parameter model that it claims performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 China AI

India has deployed AI and other tech at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj to ensure the safety of ~450M pilgrims and trace missing people during the festival (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-16 India AI

In a deposition for the Kadrey v. Meta copyright case, Mark Zuckerberg seemingly cited YouTube to justify Meta's use of copyrighted data for AI training (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI YouTube Zuckerberg

Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 France Startup AI

Joe Biden plans to issue a cybersecurity EO to improve the way the government monitors its networks, buys software, uses AI, and punishes foreign hackers (www.wired.com)
2025-1-16 AI

Eve, which makes AI tools for law firms, raised a $47M Series A led by a16z, and says its revenue has grown by 5x over the past eight months (fortune.com)
2025-1-16 AI

Permalink to Using AI to code: What could possibly go wrong? (assets.sdtimes.com)
2025-1-16 AI

Google makes Gemini AI free to use in Gmail and Docs: Here's how to use (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-16 Google AI

Aligned Data Centers, which specializes in AI-related infrastructure, raised over $12B, including $5B+ of new primary equity and $7B+ of new debt commitments (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-16 AI Equity

Permalink to Testing AI voice applications: Four critical considerations for development teams (sdtimes.com)
2025-1-16 AI

DoubleVerify says there is a jump in AI click farms, including a network of 200+ websites called Synthetic Echo, designed to siphon ad revenue from real outlets (www.wired.com)
2025-1-16 AI

Maki, which provides companies a conversational AI agent for job interviews and candidate filtering, raised a $28.6M Series A led by Blossom Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI

Google is Making AI in Gmail and Docs Free - But Raising the Price of Workspace (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-16 Google AI

LinkedIn launches free AI tools: a Jobs Match tool for job seekers and a recruitment AI agent for small businesses, both built on its own AI tech and data (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 LinkedIn AI

Microsoft Relaunches Copilot for Business With Free AI Chat and Pay-As-You-Go Agents (slashdot.org)
2025-1-16 Microsoft AI

Microsoft relaunches its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, offering pay-as-you-go AI agents and using GPT-4o to answer queries (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-16 Microsoft AI

Authorities in Singapore, which has a dire shortage of nurses, see the potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care, especially for the elderly (restofworld.org)
2025-1-16 AI Singapore

A profile of Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the chess-obsessed intelligence chief who oversees UAE's $1.5T sovereign wealth and wants to make UAE an AI superpower (www.wired.com)
2025-1-15 AI Intelligence

Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup AI London

AI will face different rules in Northern Ireland and Britain as the EU's AI Act takes effect next month, potentially causing friction in the UK's tech sector (t.co)
2025-1-15 U.K. AI Ireland

Court docs: internal messages suggest Meta used data from piracy site LibGen to train AI Llama models and worked to conceal it while racing rivals like OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-15 AI

Red Hat acquires Neural Magic, which has built tools to boost generative AI inference workloads and raised $50M from a16z and others, for an undisclosed sum (www.zdnet.com)
2025-1-15 AI

Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany raised €9.4B, France raised €7.1B; investment in French AI startups grew from €1B in 2023 to €1.9B in 2024 (sifted.eu)
2025-1-15 Germany France Startup AI

OpenAI's AI Reasoning Model 'Thinks' In Chinese Sometimes, No One Really Knows Why (slashdot.org)
2025-1-15 China AI

How to conduct an AI risk assessment [Free Guide] (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-1-15 AI

Apple joins UALink, an industry group working on a next generation AI accelerator architecture standard meant to challenge Nvidia's dominance with NVLink (9to5mac.com)
2025-1-15 AI Apple Nvidia

Why ML and AI demand a new approach to threat modeling (www.fullstory.com)
2025-1-15 AI

Biden signs an EO that directs the DOD and DOE to lease land to companies building gigawatt-scale AI data centers and clean power facilities, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-15 AI

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