California lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would impose new restrictions on AI technologies, potentially setting a national precedent for regulating the rapidly evolving field. The legislation, known as S.B. 1047, now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. He has until the end of September to decide whether to sign it into law.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/09/2024
This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes Neural Magic's new open-source GuideLLM, IBM Research's new Docling PDF conversion tool, Rune Labs' StrivePD-AI for improved clinical reporting on Parkinson's patients , Westinghouse Nuclear's Hive System, and more.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 09/09/2024
The United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and several other countries have signed the world's first legally binding treaty aimed at regulating the use of AI.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/06/2024
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.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 09/03/2024
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/03/2024
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/29/2024
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/29/2024
Amazon plans to acquire edge inferencing specialist Perceive for $80 million in cash.
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2024
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.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 08/26/2024
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/23/2024
Microsoft announces the release of its Phi-3.5-Mini-Instruct model, the latest addition to its Phi-3 model collection.
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/21/2024