AI Weekend Edition – Saturday, February 22, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: Microsoft made a lot of news this week in the quantum space via its giant marketing and communication machine with the introduction of its Majorana-1 chip. (All the big corporations have giant marketing and communication machines. Cf. Google, IBM, and NVIDIA.) On the same day, they introduced Muse, a generative AI “World…

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AI – Saturday, December 7, 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 Some of you have asked how I build this newsletter with the links and categorization. During the days before publishing an edition, I collect links to articles, papers, newsletters, and web pages on AI and quantum technologies…

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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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AI – Monday, October 7, 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 NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs – NVIDIA ADLR https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/NVLM-1/ Authors: Wenliang Dai; Nayeon Lee; Boxin Wang; Zhuolin Yang; Zihan Liu; Jon Barker; Tuomas Rintamaki; Mohammad Shoeybi; Bryan Catanzaro; and Wei Ping (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “We introduce…

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AI – Friday, August 30, 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 1. Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/ Author: Kyle Wiggers (Monday, August 26, 2024) “Anthropic has published the system prompts for Claude, its family of generative AI models. They instruct the…

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AI – Friday, August 23, 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 NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/nea-led-a-100m-round-into-fei-fei-lis-new-ai-startup-now-valued-at-over-1b/ Author: Marina Temkin (Wednesday, August 14, 2024) “World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor…

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Quantum – Monday, August 05, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Testing spooky action at a distance | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://news.mit.edu/2024/testing-spooky-action-distance-0731 Author: School of Engineering | Department of Mathematics | Department of Physics | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Wednesday, July…

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AI – Thursday, August 01, 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 AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/ (Tuesday, July 23, 2024) “A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI…

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