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🔥 Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
Apple unveils a powerful new iPad mini featuring the A17 Pro chip, enhanced Apple Intelligence, and support for Apple Pencil Pro.
🔥 Meta's open AI hardware vision
Meta unveils open AI hardware innovations at OCP Summit 2024, promoting collaboration for scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure.
🔥 Command AI Bought by Amplitude
Command AI is acquired by Amplitude, promising enhanced user experiences and continued product support.
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can't?
Invisible text in Unicode allows AI chatbots to process hidden commands, posing new security risks for data exfiltration.
Local TypeScript Super SDK to Call 200 LLMs
Adaline's Super SDK enables local access to over 200 LLMs with a unified interface, enhancing privacy and customization.
Zapata AI Ceases Operations
Zapata AI shuts down unexpectedly due to accelerated debt payment, despite a recent partnership announcement.
Running LLMs with 3.3M Context Tokens on a Single GPU
DuoAttention optimizes long-context LLM inference by using selective caching, achieving 2.55x memory reduction on a single GPU.
Omnio: First AI model that can natively reason over audio
Omnio is the first AI model to natively reason over audio, understanding conversations, emotions, and non-verbal cues like humans.
Icechunk: An open-source, cloud-native transactional tensor storage engine
Icechunk is an open-source, cloud-native storage engine for tensor data, enhancing Zarr with transactional capabilities and performance.
Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
Chinese researchers demonstrate a quantum computer's ability to break RSA encryption, raising urgent cybersecurity concerns.
Synthetic Cot Reasoning Trace Generation from Knowledge Graphs
A new system, Enki, generates synthetic reasoning data from knowledge graphs to enhance LLM training for complex reasoning tasks.
The New York Times warns AI search engine Perplexity to stop using its content
The New York Times warns AI search engine Perplexity to cease using its content, claiming copyright infringement.
Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content
Adobe launches Firefly Video Model, an AI video generator trained on licensed content, aiming for ethical and commercial safety.
Dropbox launches Dash for Business, AI-powered universal search
Dropbox's Dash for Business is an AI-powered universal search tool that streamlines content access and enhances security for teams.
Why Surgeons Are Wearing the Apple Vision Pro in Operating Rooms
Surgeons at UC San Diego are using Apple Vision Pro headsets to enhance minimally invasive surgeries, improving efficiency and reducing injury risk.
TikTok Lays Off Staff–To Replace Them with AI
TikTok lays off hundreds of staff, replacing them with AI for content moderation amid ongoing operational changes.
An Alternative to OpenAI Realtime API for Voice Capabilities
Cerebrium and Rime offer a powerful alternative to OpenAI's Realtime API for voice capabilities, enhancing performance and cost-efficiency.
Unix for Poets: Basic NLP Tasks Using Unix Tools
The article demonstrates basic NLP tasks using Unix tools, showcasing their simplicity and effectiveness for text analysis.
Artificial Intelligence Raises Ukrainian Drone Kill Rates to 80%
AI boosts Ukrainian drone strike accuracy to 80%, enhancing battlefield effectiveness amid ongoing conflict with Russia.
Parents Sue School That Gave Student Who Completed Assignment with AI Bad Grade
Parents are suing a Massachusetts school after their son received a bad grade for using AI on an assignment, claiming unfair discipline.
Evaluating Fairness in ChatGPT
A study evaluates ChatGPT's response fairness based on user names, finding minimal harmful stereotypes in less than 1% of cases.
Show HN: Advanced LLM Voice Mode but on your own database
Zing Advanced Voice Mode enables natural language queries on your own data, simplifying analytics for all users.
Show HN: AI Imagery Meets Real Models for Powerful Campaigns
AI-generated imagery featuring human models enhances marketing campaigns.
1,200 Fake Podcasts Generated, Mostly by NotebookLM
NotebookLM generates 1,200 fake podcasts, showcasing the rise of AI in content creation.
Get a Portable Turn-Key RAG Stack with Verba and Flox
Flox and Verba offer a portable, turn-key RAG stack for easy local setup of retrieval-augmented generation with LLMs.
New Algorithm Enables Neural Networks to Learn Continuously
Caltech's new FIP algorithm allows neural networks to learn continuously without forgetting previous tasks, enhancing AI flexibility.
Fixed a bug which caused all training losses to diverge
A bug causing divergent training losses in large gradient accumulation was fixed, ensuring losses now match full batch training.
Perplexity is rolling out o1-mini integration into its web Pro search focus
Perplexity introduces o1-mini integration for its Pro search, enhancing web search capabilities without query limits.
Playing with Hilton's Digital Keycard API
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Open-source 70B model surpass GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 on Arena Hard
NVIDIA's Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B model outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 on key AI benchmarks as of October 2024.