3 h. ago Alaska Airlines invests in Boeing 737 VR flight simulator developer Loft Dynamics

Alaska Airlines invests in Boeing 737 VR flight simulator developer Loft Dynamics  Airport Technology

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6 h. ago AI video startup Moonvalley raised a fresh $43M, SEC filing shows

Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, has raised a fresh $43 million in venture capital, according to an SEC filing. The filing, which lists 11 unnamed investors, comes roughly a week after Moonvalley launched its first AI video-generating model, Marey. Moonvalley previously raised $70 million in seed funding from backers […]

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3 d. ago Alaska Airways invests in development of virtual 737 flight simulator

Alaska Airways invests in development of virtual 737 flight simulator  LARA Magazine

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3 d. ago Alaska Air Invests in Loft Dynamics to Support Development of Boeing 737 VR Simulator

Alaska Air Invests in Loft Dynamics to Support Development of Boeing 737 VR Simulator  MarketScreener

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3 d. ago Alaska Airlines invests in Loft Dynamics to develop Boeing 737 VR simulators

Alaska Airlines invests in Loft Dynamics to develop Boeing 737 VR simulators  Airline Routes & Ground Services

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3 d. ago Alaska Airlines Announces Investment In Loft Dynamics And Partnership To Develop And Deploy First Boeing 737 Vr Simulators

Alaska Airlines Announces Investment In Loft Dynamics And Partnership To Develop And Deploy First Boeing 737 Vr Simulators  MarketScreener

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5 d. ago This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

A new platform from data training company Scale AI will let artificial intelligence developers find their models’ weak spots.

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6 d. ago Meta allegedly used pirated books to train AI—US courts may decide if this is 'fair use'

Companies developing AI models, such as OpenAI and Meta, train their systems on enormous datasets. These consist of text from newspapers, books (often sourced from unauthorized repositories), academic publications and various internet sources. The material includes works that are copyrighted.

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6 d. ago Qualcomm acquires generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI

Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Monday. The move marks Qualcomm’s continued expansion into the AI tooling sector. VinAI, which was founded by former DeepMind research scientist Hung Bui, develops a range of generative AI technologies, including […]

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6 d. ago AI's development is critically important for America – and it all hinges on these freedoms

The development of Artificial Intelligence is critically important for America. Here's how we can do that.

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6 d. ago Alphabet’s AI drug discovery platform Isomorphic Labs raises $600M from Thrive

Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug-discovery platform that was spun out of Google’s DeepMind in 2021, has raised external capital for the first time. The $600 million round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from GV and existing investor Alphabet, Google’s parent, it said.     The funding will accelerate further development of Isomorphic’s AI drug […]

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7 d. ago Collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to develop and scale sustainable energy systems

The MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance includes research, education, and career opportunities across the Institute.

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1 week ago New miniature laboratories are ensuring that AI doesn't make mistakes

Anyone who develops an AI solution sometimes goes on a journey into the unknown. At least at the beginning, researchers and designers do not always know whether their algorithms and AI models will work as expected or whether the AI will ultimately make mistakes.

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1 week ago Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways.

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1 week ago HUD joins forces with DHS to ensure federal housing resources go to US citizens, not illegal immigrants

The Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Homeland Security have forged a new interagency initiative aimed at ensuring federal housing funds are not taken away from American citizens to pay for illegal immigrants.

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2 w. ago Neural networks can recognize production processes by video to enhance industrial safety and efficiency

A research team from the Skoltech AI Center and Samara University have developed a system for automatically separating the stages of production processes from video streams. Industrial cameras will detect deviations in the production process themselves and even prevent accidents. By employing the self-supervised learning approach, the cost of manual data markup can be reduced while the model's stability in real conditions can be increased. The research results are presented in the IEEE Access journal.

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2 w. ago DNA data storage: AI method speeds up data retrieval by 3,200 times

Researchers from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science have developed an AI-based method that accelerates DNA-based data retrieval by three orders of magnitude while significantly improving accuracy. The research team included Ph.D. student Omer Sabary, Dr. Daniella Bar-Lev, Dr. Itai Orr, Prof. Eitan Yaakobi, and Prof. Tuvi Etzion.

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2 w. ago A high schooler built a website that lets you challenge AI models to a Minecraft build

As conventional AI benchmarking techniques prove inadequate, AI builders are turning to more creative ways to assess the capabilities of generative AI models. For one group of developers, that’s Minecraft, the Microsoft-owned sandbox-building game. The website Minecraft Benchmark (or MC-Bench) was developed collaboratively to pit AI models against each other in head-to-head challenges to respond […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago ClearGrid, armed with a fresh $10M, is developing AI to improve debt collection in MENA

Debt collection in emerging markets often feels outdated and can be costly — damaging borrower trust. As consumer lending surges and regulators push for fairer practices, legacy collection outfits are struggling to maintain pace. ClearGrid aims to help modernize debt collection — and recovery — with AI. The Dubai-based startup, which is emerging from stealth […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Google plans to release new ‘open’ AI models for drug discovery

During a health-focused event in New York on Tuesday, Google announced that it’s developing a collection of “open” AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma. The AI models, which Google said will be released through its Health AI Developer Foundations program later this month, can understand both “regular text” and the structures of different “therapeutic […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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