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Amazon Partners With Covariant to Expand AI Robot Capabilities

Amazon licenses Covariant's robotic foundation models to enhance how its massive fleet of warehouse robots sees, reasons, and acts. The partnership aims to improve safety and efficiency for employees while accelerating supply chain automation.

Codeium Reaches Unicorn Status With $150 Million Series C Raise

AI coding platform Codeium secures $150 million in Series C funding at a $1.25 billion valuation. The company plans to use the capital to expand its research and development efforts.

AI Coding Platform Codeium Reaches $1.25 Billion Valuation in $150M Raise

Codeium secures $150 million in a Series C funding round led by General Catalyst, pushing its valuation to $1.25 billion. The company plans to use the new capital to expand its workforce, accelerate product development, and build strategic partnerships.

Musk-Spread Harris Deepfake Ignites Election Free Speech Debate

A manipulated Kamala Harris campaign ad shared by Elon Musk highlights the growing challenge of regulating AI deepfakes during an election year. Experts and politicians remain divided on whether the viral audio constitutes dangerous misinformation or protected parody.

Amazon Q AI Tool Eliminates 4,500 Years of Developer Upgrades

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals that the company's AI assistant, Amazon Q, saves massive amounts of time and money by automating Java upgrades. The tool successfully handles foundational code transformations that developers previously executed manually.

xAI Launches Grok-2 With Advanced Reasoning and Image Generation

xAI releases the Grok-2 beta, introducing state-of-the-art reasoning and the ability to generate images directly within the platform.

Meta Releases Llama 3.1, Its Most Powerful Open Source AI Models Yet

Meta unveils Llama 3.1, featuring the 405B model that rivals top closed-source AI systems with a massive 128K context window. The release includes new safety tools and immediate support from over 25 major tech partners.

Major AI Developers Secretly Train Models on YouTube Transcripts

An investigation reveals that tech giants like Apple and Nvidia are using transcribed YouTube videos to train AI models without creators' permission. This practice directly violates YouTube's own platform rules.

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Google DeepMind AI Solves Olympiad Math at Silver-Medal Level

Two Google DeepMind AI programs successfully solve four out of six problems at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, achieving a score equivalent to a human silver medalist.

Meta Unveils Llama 3.1, a Frontier-Level Open Source AI Model

Meta releases Llama 3.1, featuring a massive 405B model that rivals top closed-source systems. The updated suite brings longer context windows, multilingual support, and new tools for building custom AI agents.

Google Launches Gemini 1.5 Pro Update With Dedicated App and Live Chat

Google introduces a major Gemini 1.5 Pro update featuring a dedicated app and a live conversation feature to rival ChatGPT-4o. The upgrade offers an industry-leading context window capable of processing massive documents and long videos.

YouTube Allows Users to Request Removal of AI Deepfakes

YouTube introduces a new privacy request process that lets individuals ask for the removal of AI-generated deepfakes that mimic their face or voice. The updated policy shifts the platform's approach from merely labeling synthetic media to actively taking it down upon complaint.

AlphaFold 3 Ushers in New Era for AI-Driven Drug Discovery

A recent review highlights Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 as a transformative leap in artificial intelligence for biomolecular structure prediction, offering unprecedented capabilities for drug design and therapeutic development.

Harvard Study Finds AI Models Recognize Moral Complexity But Ignore It

Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School's Allen Lab discover that leading AI models mimic human moral concern but ultimately rely on a hidden value hierarchy when making decisions.