Bobby Kotick to @JBoorstin on CNBC re an FTC appeal: 'I'd be surprised if they would waste taxpayer resources on something like that. … I can't imagine the 9th Circuit would grant the stay. …. I would think that would be highly unlikely, and it just wouldn't be productive.'
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Elon Musk Announces Formation of xAI Company
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Elon Musk Announces xAI https://
x.ai Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, July 14th. Team Our team is led by -
LinkedIn Should Have Launched Its Own Twitter Alternative
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Hot take: LinkedIn should’ve released its own Twitter equivalent instead of Meta.
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GenAI Legal Grey Area: Major Lawsuits Against Tech Giants
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Worth following for a few reasons: It’s been such a legal grey area, esp. since the GenAI boom began. Also timely b/c of specific lawsuits filed against Google (yesterday), OpenAI (two last month) along w/ a lawsuit against Stability AI that Getty Images filed this spring.
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Microsoft DeepSpeed ZeRO++ Optimizes Large Model Training Efficiency
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Microsoft's DeepSpeed ZeRO++ is a system of communication optimization strategies built on top of ZeRO to offer unmatched efficiency for large model training, regardless of batch size limitations or cross-device bandwidth constraints. https://
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Senate Subcommittee Hearing on AI and Copyright Law
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The U.S. senate subcommittee on intellectual property is holding a hearing today focused on AI and copyright law. Execs from Adobe and Universal Music Group, the head of policy for Stability AI, an artist and an AI professor are all expected to testify.
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Nvidia Invests 50M in Recursion AI Drug Discovery
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NVIDIA Partners with Recursion to Accelerate AI Drug Discovery
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Awesome to see @nvidia come into @RecursionPharma to help supercharge AI, powered by @airstreet
-seeded @valence_ai 🙂 “Recursion, through its recent acquisition of Valence Discovery, aims to accelerate the development of new technologies to feed the biopharma industry, while -

Three trends shaping the future of work Microsoft CEO
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3 trends will shape the #FutureofWork, according to Microsoft’s CEO https://
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Acquisition of Clipdrop Creator Init ML for Creative AI
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We also announced our first-ever acquisition of @init_ml
, the creators of @clipdropapp in March. This acquisition furthers our goal of delivering the most advanced creative applications with our open-source generative AI models.