Microsoft’s AI travel writer recommends Canada food bank
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Maybe laying off all those journalists was not a good idea

Cash-strapped software King of the world, Microsoft which thought it could save a buck or two firing journalists and replacing them with AI has found itself in a somewhat embarrassing position.

AI being used to ban books
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Fahrenheit 451

A Mason City school board is so lazy that it has outsourced its book banning to AI.

Universal Music Group and Google want to dig up dead pop stars with AI
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Keep cutting tracks long after the singer is dead

Universal Music Group and Google are considering developing a tool that people can use to create AI-generated music using popular artists' voices and melodies.

China spends big on Nvidia chips
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Wants them for its generative AI systems

China's internet giants have ordered more than $5 billion of high-performance Nvidia chips to build generative AI systems.

IBM boffins develop mixed-signal analogue AI chip
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Good for deep neural network (DNN) inference.


IBM Research introduced a mixed-signal analogue AI chip for running a variety of deep neural network (DNN) inference tasks.