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AI – Sunday, December 15, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary I spent this last week at the Q2B conference in Santa Clara, California, so my mind has focused more on quantum technologies than AI. That’s my excuse for playing catch-up on AI topics in this newsletter edition….

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Quantum – Thursday, December 5, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California, next week, December 10–12. Several companies, including Equal1 and Alice & Bob, squeezed in announcements…

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Quantum – Tuesday, November 12, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links are primarily about quantum computing, with a couple of others thrown in about a quantum game and quantum networking. Start paying attention to the Imec company for quantum-related technology. It shows up twice in the…

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AI Chipsets – Friday, November 1, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. Today’s Brief Commentary It’s been a while since I dedicated an entire newsletter to AI accelerator chips. Announcements from vendors tend to come in bursts around events such as the Hot Chips conference. It’s hard to find any news…

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Quantum – Monday, October 21, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today, we look at quantum sensing and communication, material simulation, and continuous-variable approaches for analog quantum computing. Today’s Brief Commentary Here’s a story idea for journalists: Given the gate-and-circuit “digital” model of hashtag#quantumcomputing, ask vendors two things about their eventual…

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AI – Saturday, September 21, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses High-Level Explanations: Agentic AI Deep-Dive https://deepgram.com/learn/agentic-ai-explained Author: Tife Sanusi (Friday, September 13, 2024) “Agentic AI is the next step in AI’s evolution. The new technology is being actively sought after with organizations from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,…

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AI – Friday, September 13, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Video game actors’ strike: 80 games adopt SAG-AFTRA AI terms, union says – Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-05/video-game-actors-strike-sag-aftra-ai-artificial-intelligence Author: Christi Carras (Friday, September 6, 2024) “SAG-AFTRA says 80 video games have agreed to abide by its proposed AI…

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AI – Tuesday, August 13, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses Why larger LLM context windows are all the rage – IBM Research https://research.ibm.com/blog/larger-context-window (Wednesday, July 24, 2024) “IBM has scaled the context window of its open-source Granite 3B and 8B models to 128,000 tokens, the new industry standard.”…

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