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Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens
Software Development

Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens

An app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens, who speak a wide variety of languages. Jugalbandi helps Indians learn about government services, which typically are described online in English and Hindi, in their native tongues.

July 5, 20232 min read
Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens
Software Development

Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens

An app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens, who speak a wide variety of languages. Jugalbandi helps Indians learn about government services, which typically are described online in English and Hindi, in their native tongues.

July 5, 20232 min read
Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
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Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

June 28, 20232 min read
Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
Software Development

Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

June 28, 20232 min read
Economic Forecast — GenAI Boom: McKinsey projects generative AI's impact on global economy.
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Economic Forecast — GenAI Boom: McKinsey projects generative AI's impact on global economy.

Generative AI could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually (roughly 2 percent to 4 percent of the world’s combined gross domestic product this year), according to a new report.

June 21, 20233 min read
Economic Forecast — GenAI Boom: McKinsey projects generative AI's impact on global economy.
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Economic Forecast — GenAI Boom: McKinsey projects generative AI's impact on global economy.

Generative AI could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually (roughly 2 percent to 4 percent of the world’s combined gross domestic product this year), according to a new report.

June 21, 20233 min read
Google Adds AI Inside and Out: Generative AI highlights from Google I/O 2023
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Google Adds AI Inside and Out: Generative AI highlights from Google I/O 2023

Google showcased a flood of new features in its latest bid to get ahead in the generative AI arms race. The company demonstrated AI features for consumers and developers at its annual I/O conference.

May 17, 20232 min read
Google Adds AI Inside and Out: Generative AI highlights from Google I/O 2023
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Google Adds AI Inside and Out: Generative AI highlights from Google I/O 2023

Google showcased a flood of new features in its latest bid to get ahead in the generative AI arms race. The company demonstrated AI features for consumers and developers at its annual I/O conference.

May 17, 20232 min read
Data Does Not Want to Be Free: Reddit and Stack Overflow ask AI devs to pay for data.
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Data Does Not Want to Be Free: Reddit and Stack Overflow ask AI devs to pay for data.

Developers of language models will have to pay for access to troves of text data that they previously got for free. The discussion platform Reddit and question-and-answer site Stack Overflow announced plans to protect their data from being used to train large language models.

April 26, 20232 min read
Data Does Not Want to Be Free: Reddit and Stack Overflow ask AI devs to pay for data.
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Data Does Not Want to Be Free: Reddit and Stack Overflow ask AI devs to pay for data.

Developers of language models will have to pay for access to troves of text data that they previously got for free. The discussion platform Reddit and question-and-answer site Stack Overflow announced plans to protect their data from being used to train large language models.

April 26, 20232 min read
AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.
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AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.

Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.

April 20, 20231 min read
AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.
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AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.

Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.

April 20, 20231 min read
AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.
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AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.

Chatbot-fueled FOMO is overwhelming cloud-computing services. Cloud providers are struggling to meet sharply rising demand by a crowd of AI startups eager to cash in on generative AI, The Information reported. The surge in demand caught Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others off guard.

April 12, 20232 min read
AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.
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AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.

Chatbot-fueled FOMO is overwhelming cloud-computing services. Cloud providers are struggling to meet sharply rising demand by a crowd of AI startups eager to cash in on generative AI, The Information reported. The surge in demand caught Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others off guard.

April 12, 20232 min read
Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad: Microsoft eliminates its Ethics & Society unit.
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Microsoft Cuts Ethics Squad: Microsoft eliminates its Ethics & Society unit.

Microsoft laid off an AI ethics team while charging ahead on products powered by OpenAI. On March 6, the tech giant dissolved the Ethics & Society unit in its Cognition group, which researches and builds AI services, amid ongoing cutbacks that have affected 10,000 workers to date...

March 22, 20232 min read

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