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Microsoft has hired recent former Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence CEO Ali Farhadi.Farhadi will work under Mustafa Suleyman, who recently started an in-house AI team at the company, according to two people familiar with the hiring. Farhadi is listed in Microsoft’s internal system with the title corporate vice president, one of the people said.After Business Insider requested a comment from Microsoft, Suleyman posted about Farhadi’s hiring on LinkedIn.Farhadi stepped down earlier this month as Ai2 CEO, where he worked to make AI research open and accessible to the public. He’s was a cofounder of Xnor.ai, an on-device AI model startup…
March 23 (Reuters) – Inclusive Capital Partners is looking to sell a stake in German agriculture and health firm Bayer AG, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.The investor is offering roughly 8.5 million shares in a stock placing arranged by JPMorgan Chase, the report said, citing terms seen by Bloomberg. The stake would be worth about 327 million euros ($380.17 million) based on the stock’s closing price on Monday.Inclusive Capital could not be immediately reached, while Bayer did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Inclusive Capital, led by activist Jeff Ubben, took a stake in Bayer in early 2023…
Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED sits in the middle of the company’s smart TV lineup. It delivers better picture quality than the brand’s cheaper sets, but is still a clear step down from its more advanced Omni Mini LED. The first-generation Omni QLED launched in 2022 and has since been replaced by a second-generation model. While this newer version offers a slight performance bump, it carries over too many of the original’s shortcomings and struggles with too many flaws across its picture presets.Simply put, the Fire TV Omni QLED is outmatched by similarly priced rivals from TCL and Hisense. The…
In a new viral video, Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter their users can lead the chatbots themselves to become a mirror of users’ own beliefs rather than a tool for discovery. We’ve seen this problem before amid the growing number of people afflicted by “AI psychosis,” which is when an AI chatbot reinforces a mentally unstable person’s irrational thoughts and beliefs. In some cases, this dark pattern has even led users to take their own lives,…
After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the U.S. as a whole, the gigantic heat dome that’s baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians said.And it’s not going away for awhile, maybe not till the middle of the next week as April starts, said meteorologist Gregg Gallina of the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.“Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot,” Gallina said Monday. “The area of record temperatures is extremely large. That’s the thing that’s really bizarre.”This…
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform last valued at $6.6 billion, is on the hunt for acquisitions. On Monday, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Anton Osika, announced on X that the company was looking for “more great teams and startups to join Lovable.” “Many of the people in key roles at Lovable were founders right before joining us,” he wrote in a post. “We’ve built our culture in a way that makes founder-types thrive internally, being able to act autonomously and drive initiatives.” Osika suggested that the opportunity would allow those working on interesting projects to continue to do so at…
Apple’s next Worldwide Developers Conference will be held from June 8 to June 12 online and at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, the company announced Monday. The iPhone maker said this year’s conference — in which it typically announces new software and features across its range of devices — will focus on “AI advancements” along with updates for platforms like iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, and new software and developer tools. The conference will stream live on the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website, and the Apple Developer YouTube channel. In China, the conference will be streamed on the Apple Developer Bilibili…
Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that solve the AI inference bottleneck problem in an astute way. The round was led by Menlo Ventures. The company, Gimlet Labs, has created what it claims is the first and only “multi-silicon inference cloud” which is software that allows an AI workload to be simultaneously run across diverse types of hardware. It can split an AI app’s work across both traditional CPUs and AI-tuned GPUs, as well as high-memory systems. “We basically run across whatever different hardware that’s available,” Asgar told…
There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search, documents, and meetings. All of them want to capture context from your digital life, provide connections to other tools, and let you query all that data. Some tools went further. For instance, Rewind (which became Limitless and sold to Meta) and Microsoft Recall aim to capture everything happening on your screen and help you remember it all. A new startup called Littlebird is trying a similar thing with a slightly different approach. While apps like Rewind…
Four doses of an experimental vaccine to protect against Lyme disease reduced the number of tick-borne infections by more than 70 percent, according to Pfizer and Valneva, the pharmaceutical companies developing the shot.Pfizer said in a statement the companies are “confident in the vaccine’s potential” and plan to submit the data to regulatory authorities, even though it missed a statistical cutoff for success. If approved, it could become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for people – although it would not be the first.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.…