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World's First Global AI Treaty Signed: A Milestone for Human Rights and Democracy in the Age of AI

The United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and several other countries have signed "The Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law," the world's first legally binding treaty aimed at regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI). It was developed by the Council of Europe and opened for signatures on September 5, 2024. The primary goal of the treaty is to ensure that AI systems are designed, developed, deployed, and decommissioned in ways that respect human rights, support democratic institutions, and uphold the rule of law.

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The Week in AI: OpenAI Fine Tuning for GPT-4o, Gemini Update, GameNGen Pitch, Alibaba's Quen2-VL, More

It was a short week, thanks to the long Labor Day weekend, but the indefatigable entrepreneurs driving the AI revolution didn't seem to notice. Here are some of the products and services they announced last week while your attention was turned to the barbecue.

NVIDIA Unveils NIM Agent Blueprints to Accelerate Enterprise AI Development

Nvidia unveils NIM Agent Blueprints, a comprehensive catalog of pre-trained, customizable AI workflows designed to streamline the development and deployment of generative AI applications across a range of enterprisew.

U.S. AI Safety Institute Announces Landmark Collaboration with AI Leaders Anthropic and OpenAI

The U.S. AI Safety Institute, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announced that it has formalized agreements with leading AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI to collaborate on AI safety research, testing, and evaluation.

AI Emerges as Top Tech for Enhancing Healthcare in Industry Survey

Health system leaders responding to the annual "Top of Mind for Top Health Systems" survey said that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting emerging technologies impacting their industry today, recognizing in particular its potential to enhance both care and administration.

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.

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