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In February, Google halted its AI-driven chatbot, Gemini, from generating images of people after users raised concerns about historical inaccuracies. For instance, when asked to illustrate “a Roman legion,” Gemini depicted anachronistic racially diverse soldiers, while “Zulu warriors” were rendered in stereotypical Black imagery.

Elon Musk's AI venture, X.ai, has unveiled its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5, poised to enhance the functionality of social network X's Grok chatbot in the near future. According to a recent blog post, Grok-1.5 represents a significant upgrade over its predecessor, Grok-1, as evidenced by impressive benchmark results and specifications.

Meta has launched a new standalone generative AI tool on the web called Imagine with Meta, enabling users to create images simply by describing them in natural language. This innovative platform is comparable to popular tools like OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. Powered by Meta’s advanced Emu image generation model, Imagine with Meta creates high-resolution images from text prompts and is currently free for U.S. users, generating up to four images per request.

Google has faced criticism for providing inaccurate, humorous, and downright strange answers through its newly launched AI Overviews in search results.

At the GTC conference today, Nvidia unveiled Nvidia NIM, a groundbreaking software platform designed to simplify the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models in production environments. NIM leverages Nvidia's advancements in model inferencing and optimization, making it easy for developers by combining models with an optimized inferencing engine, which is then packaged into containers for seamless access as microservices.

Generative AI Startups Secure Record Funding to Advance Open Source and Commercial Projects

OpenStack empowers enterprises to manage their own private clouds on-premises, resembling AWS infrastructure. After 29 releases, it remains one of the most active open-source projects globally. This week, the OpenInfra Foundation announced the launch of OpenStack version 29, known as “Caracal.” This latest release focuses on enhanced features specifically tailored for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

Under the spotlight from activists and parents alike, OpenAI has launched a dedicated team aimed at preventing the misuse of its AI tools among children. The company has now announced the formation of a Child Safety team through a recent job posting on its careers page. This team is collaborating closely with OpenAI's platform policy, legal, and investigations departments, as well as external partners, to manage processes, incidents, and reviews concerning underage users.

Recent concerns have emerged regarding how major tech companies are utilizing individual and business data for AI service training, particularly within the Slack community. Users are expressing frustration over Salesforce-owned Slack's aggressive push towards its AI initiatives.

Nvidia and Foxconn have teamed up to create innovative "AI factories," a new generation of data centers designed to harness supercomputing power for advancing self-driving technology, autonomous machinery, and industrial robotics.

EU's Controversial Proposal on CSAM Detection Faces Scrutiny

Newlands VC Leads $10 Million Investment in SuperAGI for Full-Stack AGI Development

When a significant system incident occurs, effective communication—both online and offline—is crucial. This online interaction creates a digital audit trail, capturing what happened, when it happened, how individuals responded, and ultimately how the issue was resolved. Jeli, a company launched a few years ago to assist organizations in understanding and tracking incidents, is taking an exciting next step in their mission. Today, they announced a beta release that introduces ChatGPT-like functionality to enhance incident management.

Apple researchers have introduced ToolSandbox, a benchmark for evaluating AI assistants' real-world capabilities. It highlights stateful interactions and dynamic evaluations, revealing a significant performance gap between proprietary and open-source models, especially in complex tasks. ToolSandbox aims to enhance AI reliability in real-world scenarios and will soon be available on GitHub.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is striking to demand better working conditions amid the rise of generative AI, echoing the historical protests of the Luddites. They seek fair pay, standardized compensation, and protections against AI replacing human writers, advocating ethical AI use while ensuring writers’ original content is not exploited.