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  • Japan invests $1.3 billion in Micron to subsidize chip manufacturing: Report

    Japanese government funds are expected to help Micron’s factory in Hiroshima produce more advanced chips to power AI and quantum workloads.

  • With AI, there’s a trust gap based on gender, age

    When it comes to trusting artificial intelligence (AI), men, millennial, and Gen Z workers generally have more faith in the technology than women, Gen Xers, or Baby Boomers, according to the results of a survey of more than 2,000 US adults. The survey, the second of its kind conducted eight months apart, was performed by The…

  • Meta Quest 3’s mixed reality ‘passthrough’ broadens workplace appeal

    Meta focused on bringing mixed reality to the masses at its Connect developer conference this week, rolling out its Meta Quest 3 headset with an emphasis on entertainment and gaming. But the company sees potential uses in the workplace, too. In particular, the Quest 3 headset’s “pass-through” feature is designed to blend physical and digital…

  • Meta challenges ChatGPT with chatbot, OpenAI fires back with new features

    Facebook parent Meta this week rolled out plans for various chatbots for US consumers that are embedded into specific applications, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. The new Meta AI bot, currently in beta, is powered by various iterations of Meta’s Llama 2 large language model (LLM). The difference between Meta’s LLM and OpenAI’s GPT 4…

  • Chip industry strains to meet AI-fueled demands — will smaller LLMs help?

    Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of natural-language processing technology has taken the world by storm, with organizations large and small rushing to pilot it in a bid to find new efficiencies and automate tasks. Tech giants Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all offering cloud-based genAI technologies or baking them into their business apps…