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Diagram of AI cooling process on large data centers
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Energy-Efficient Cooling: Google's DeepMind algorithms dramatically boost energy efficiency in its data centers.

A reinforcement learning model maintains cooler temperatures in large data centers and other buildings.
Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
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Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.

Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.
DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate: The thriving startups founded by former DeepMind employees
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DeepMind’s Offspring Proliferate: The thriving startups founded by former DeepMind employees

Where spores from DeepMind scatter, startups blossom. Nearly 200 former employees of Google’s elite AI research lab have gone on to found or join startups.
LLMs Get a Life: The generative agents that mimic human behavior in a simulated town
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LLMs Get a Life: The generative agents that mimic human behavior in a simulated town

Large language models increasingly reply to prompts with a believably human response. Can they also mimic human behavior?
The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?
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The High Cost of Serving LLMs: How much does serving large language models at scale cost?

Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.
Long-Range Weather Forecasts: This ML-based forecast simulator outperformed medium-range forecast systems.
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Long-Range Weather Forecasts: This ML-based forecast simulator outperformed medium-range forecast systems.

Machine learning models have predicted weather a few days ahead of time. A new approach substantially extends the time horizon. Remi Lam and colleagues at Google developed GraphCast, a weather-forecasting system based on graph neural networks (GNNs).
AI Firms Agree to Voluntary Guidelines: U.S. companies agree to uphold a list of responsible AI commitments.
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AI Firms Agree to Voluntary Guidelines: U.S. companies agree to uphold a list of responsible AI commitments.

In the absence of nationwide laws that regulate AI, major U.S. tech companies pledged to abide by voluntary guidelines — most of which they may already be following.
Optimizer Without Hyperparameters: VeLO, the system that eliminates the need for optimizer hyperparameters
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Optimizer Without Hyperparameters: VeLO, the system that eliminates the need for optimizer hyperparameters

During training, a neural network usually updates its weights according to an optimizer that’s tuned using hand-picked hyperparameters. New work eliminates the need for optimizer hyperparameters.
Copyright Owners Take AI to Court: Artists and writers sue big tech companies over copyright infringement.
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Copyright Owners Take AI to Court: Artists and writers sue big tech companies over copyright infringement.

AI models that generate text, images, and other types of media are increasingly under attack by owners of copyrights to material included in their training data. Writers and artists filed a new spate of lawsuits alleging that AI companies violated their copyrights...
Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.
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Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.

Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.
Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google
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Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google

A pioneer of deep learning joined the chorus of AI insiders who worry that the technology is becoming dangerous, saying that part of him regrets his life’s work.
Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.
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Conversational Search, Google Style: Details leak about Magi, Google's answer to Bing with GPT-4.

Google’s response to Microsoft’s GPT-4-enhanced Bing became a little clearer. Anonymous insiders leaked details of Project Magi, the search giant’s near-term effort to enhance its search engine with automated conversation.
Phone showing different features of an app
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Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.
Speech bubble surrounded by Amazon, Google and Apple logos
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How AI Kingpins Lost the Chatbot War: Why Microsoft beat other tech giants to market on generative AI

Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building chatbots for years. So how did they let the alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI integrate the first smash-hit bot into Microsoft products?
Godzilla with the Google logo and Kong with the Microsoft logo, fighting
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Search War!: Google and Microsoft both announce AI-Powered search.

The long-dormant struggle to dominate the web-search business reignited in a display of AI-driven firepower — and hubris. Google and Microsoft announced competing upgrades powered by the latest generation of chatbots. Baidu, too, flexed its natural-language-processing muscles.
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