Quantum – Wednesday, November 20, 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 The Supercomputing SC24 conference is this week in Atlanta, so many quantum computing vendors used the occasion to make announcements. That’s why the Quantum Computing section in this newsletter is longer than usual. The superconducting modality is…

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AI – Monday, November 18, 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 Large Language Models (LLMs) don’t continuously learn, and David Linthicum covers this ground well in his YouTube video in the Generative AI and Models section. I strongly recommend that you watch it. I think today’s LLM +…

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AI – Friday, November 8, 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 As I’ve mentioned before, discussions about agentic AI are accelerating rapidly. Generative AI still dominates, but the combination of GenAI with orchestrated agent roles is becoming more widely understood. I’ve included tutorials by IBM and NVIDIA in…

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AI – Monday, November 4, 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 One of today’s links is to an article about LinkedIn adding an AI agent called Hiring Assistant to help the general recruiting process, from writing job postings to finding and engaging with potential candidates. For job seekers,…

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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 – Thursday, October 31, 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 I’m catching up after attending and speaking at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City this week. As a result, today’s collection of links is a smorgasbord of recent news and articles from the…

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AI – Thursday, October 24, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Paper

Today’s Brief Commentary Do tech vendors think the general public wants to know the in-the-weeds details of their products? This seems to be the case with both AI and quantum providers. While I understand the details are important to implementors, engineers, and some users, I think most people don’t care about the umpteen variations of…

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AI in Vertical Industries – Monday, October 14, 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 GenAI and Its Implications on the Legal Field | Vanderbilt University https://law.vanderbilt.edu/genai-and-its-implications-on-the-legal-field/ (Friday, October 11, 2024) “As developers continue to expand the capabilities of generative AI, lawyers have begun to question how GenAI could impact litigation in…

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AI – Saturday, October 12, 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 Introducing canvas: A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ (Thursday, October 3, 2024) “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go…

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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 – Tuesday, October 1, 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 CIOs turn to NIST to tackle generative AI’s many risks | CIO Dive https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-generative-ai-risk-mitigation-strategy-NIST-framework/728257/ Author: Lindsey Wilkinson (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Discover’s risk reduction strategy closely follows the guidance laid out by the National Institute of Standards…

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AI – Thursday, September 26, 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 Verizon hasn’t forgotten about the old AI https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/verizon-hasnt-forgotten-about-old-ai (Friday, September 20, 2024) “Verizon is leveraging a full spectrum of AI, including predictive AI, computer vision and generative AIPredictive AI and computer vision help Verizon optimize | Verizon…

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Quantum – Wednesday, September 25, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Infleqtion Awarded Phase II Quantum Technology Exploit Contract with Australian Army https://www.infleqtion.com/news/infleqtion-awarded-phase-ii-quantum-technology-exploit-contract-with-australian-army (Tuesday, September 10, 2024) “Infleqtion announced an expansion of its work with the Australian Army as part of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC). Infleqtion is…

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AI – Tuesday, September 24, 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 NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews/ Author: Biao Wang (Wednesday, September 11, 2024) “Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one…

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AI – Wednesday, September 18, 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 Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/amazon-s-audible-to-create-ai-voice-replicas-of-select-audiobook-narrators Author: Ashley Carman (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Narrators who opt in will be able to construct their voice replicas for free. Afterward, they…

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AI Chipsets – Monday, September 16, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. General News, Articles, and Analyses Inside Maia 100: Revolutionizing AI Workloads with Microsoft’s Custom AI Accelerator https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-infrastructure-blog/inside-maia-100-revolutionizing-ai-workloads-with-microsoft-s/ba-p/4229118 Author: Sherry Xu (Tuesday, August 27, 2024) “At Hot Chips 2024, Microsoft shared specifications on Maia 100, Microsoft’s first-generation custom AI accelerator designed specifically…

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AI Chipsets – Wednesday, September 04, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. IBM Cloud to offer Intel’s Gaudi 3 AI chips next year | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/ibm-cloud-will-offer-intel-gaudi-3-chips-next-year/ Author: Kyle Wiggers (Thursday, August 29, 2024) “Intel has found its first — and perhaps only — cloud customer for its…

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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 Chipsets – Wednesday, August 28, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. AI Reinvents Chip Design – Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/news/ai-reinvents-chip-design/ Author: Samuel Greengard (Thursday, August 22, 2024) “Chipmakers are turning to artificial intelligence to improve conceptional design, transistor models, simulations and analysis, verification and testing,…

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