ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of September 6th

Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI for this AI Weekly Recap. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share the most impactful AI news & developments, bringing the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community. Subscribe to get this as a newsletter sent to your inbox every Friday!

Open Data Science AI News Blog?Recap

Indiana University Leads $7.5 Million Defense-Funded Research on AI’s Role in Misinformation and Radicalization (Source)

US, Britain, and EU Set to Sign AI Treaty (Source)

Salesforce Expands AI Ambitions with Acquisition of Tenyx (Source)

Zillow’s AI-Powered Home Search Gets Smarter with NLP Features (Source)

Breaking: OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s New AI Safety Startup SSI Raises $1 Billion (Source)

AI May Not Steal Jobs But Instead Could Drive Greater Efficiency (Source)

Clearview AI Fined €30.5 Million by Dutch Watchdog for Illegal Facial Recognition Database (Source)

AI News Highlights

AI’s impact on elections is being overblown

Here’s how ed-tech companies are pitching AI to teachers

Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can’t Play Top Games?—?and There’s No Quick Fix

Self-learning AI makes NFL against the spread, over-under, money-line picks for every 2024 Week 1 game

Apple Rally Fueled by AI Promises Approaches a Crucial Test

Lloyds and Cleareye Launch AI-Centric Trade Finance Partnership

AI likely to weigh on oil prices over the next decade, Goldman says

Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase

Apple’s iPhone 16 launch is a big test for consumer AI

Regulators turn to math to determine when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous

Cangrade to Present at MassTLC’s Tech Hot Topic Conference on Building an AI-Ready Tech Workforce

YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training

North Carolina Musician Accused of $10M Streaming Fraud With AI-Generated Songs

Tesla reveals AI product/self-driving roadmap, and it raises questions

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New Trending Open Source?Projects

RB-Modulation is a Training-Free Personalization of Diffusion Models using Stochastic Optimal Control

Cache-Cool is a simple LLM caching proxy for saving your LLM calls.

Kids Care AI IOT Device, A Raspberry Pi USB Mic voice detection and Picamera fall detection.

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Transfusion?—?Pytorch is a Pytorch implementation of Transfusion

New Trending Research From Around The?Globe

Training Ultra Long Context Language Model with Fully Pipelined Distributed Transformer?—?Paper

CogVLM2: Visual Language Models for Image and Video Understanding?—?Paper

Mini-Omni: Language Models Can Hear, Talk While Thinking in Streaming?—?Paper

rerankers: A Lightweight Python Library to Unify Ranking Methods?—?Paper

LinFusion: 1 GPU, 1 Minute, 16K Image?—?Paper

ContextCite: Attributing Model Generation to Context?—?Paper

FLUX that Plays Music?—?Paper

Start-Up Funding?News

• California-based Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence, raised $1B in Series Funding
• Tokyo-based Sakana AI, a developer of nature-inspired foundation models for transformative artificial intelligence, raised $100M in Series A Funding
• Beijing-based Infinigence, a provider of AGI computing power solutions based on its large model energy efficiency optimization tools, raised CN￥500M in Series A Funding
• London-based Doccla, a virtual ward company who are the pioneers of tech-agnostic virtual wards, raised ￡35M in Series A Funding
• Israel-based Hypernative, a software development company that protects digital assets using AI, raised $16M in Series A Funding

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