AIR#269 - New AI Toolkit, TSA Privacy Concerns, and Controversial School Ruling

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šŸ”„ Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit
Hugging Face releases SmolLM2, a lightweight language model family for diverse tasks, with tools for training and evaluation.

šŸ”„ Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
A bipartisan group of senators calls for an investigation into TSA's facial recognition program, citing privacy concerns and errors.

Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI
A judge upheld a school's decision to discipline a student for using AI to cheat on an assignment, rejecting the family's lawsuit.

Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime
aiOla launches Whisper-NER, an open-source audio transcription model that masks sensitive info in real-time, enhancing privacy.

Google is prepping Gemini to take action inside of apps
Google's Gemini AI is set to gain app interaction capabilities, enhancing its functionality similar to Apple's Siri updates.

How to live forever (using AI)
Exploring AI's potential to extend human life and achieve immortality.

Almost 10% of South Korea's Workforce Is Now a Robot
Almost 10% of South Korea's workforce is now robots, leading the world in automation with 1,012 robots per 10,000 employees.

Browser-Based Federated Learning Game with MNIST
Explore Federated Learning through an interactive game, training local models to achieve the best global accuracy. šŸŽ®

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