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Emilia David

Emilia David

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    The (not swaggy) Pope will head to the G7 leaders’ summit to warn against the perverse dangers of AI.

    Reuters reports Pope Francis will head to Puglia in Italy to meet leaders from the US, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada, and Japan to discuss regulating AI.

    The pope previously expressed concerns about AI-driven inequality and has learned more about the technology since then.

    Two AI-generated images of the pope wearing a white puffy jacket.
    Just a reminder that this is image is AI-generated and Pope Francis did not wear a Balenciaga puffy coat.
    Image: via Reddit / u/trippy_art_special
    Emilia David
    Emilia David
    Samsung and Google tease “exciting things” for AI on Android and Galaxy hardware.

    The two companies say their partnership “has never been stronger,” possibly calming any fears after Google merged its Android and hardware teams. It sure looks like we’re going to see more AI in both Samsung and Google devices soon beyond Circle to Search, which is something to watch for as more AI-powered devices like the Rabbit R1 come to market.

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    Emilia David
    Nvidia buys GPU-management software company Run:ai.

    Run:ai’s software lets users share computing power and easily manage GPUs running on cloud and on-premises data centers. It will be part of Nvidia’s DGX Cloud platform, which sells access to Nvidia’s GPUs for a monthly fee. TechCrunch reports the deal cost $700 million.

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    Emilia David
    Amazon makes checking for its AI watermarks available for all Bedrock users.

    People using Amazon’s AI library can check if an image was made with Amazon’s Titan Image Generator, which is now publicly available. Right now, the platform will only check Amazon’s own watermarks and not other developers.

    Amazon also added the ability to customize guardrails and to bring people’s own models to Bedrock.

    Screenshot of how to check watermarks on Amazon Bedrock
    How to check watermarks on Amazon Bedrock
    Image: Amazon
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    Emilia David
    Microsoft expands AI watermarking to EU political parties to tag deepfakes.

    The company will offer the same deepfake protection to EU political parties as it did to US politicians. Political campaigns can use Microsoft’s tools to attach Content Credentials, aka watermarks, to media they release to track whether the image or video has been manipulated.