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November 29, 2023

Vi ”lagrar i molnet”, konstaterar vi. Men där byggs en enorm flaskhals upp. Nu varnar forskarna för en situation som bara är några år bort. Forskaren Ramin Firouzi vid Stockholms universitet har ägnat de senaste åren åt att studera alternativ till att lagra data i molnet. Alternativet benämns som ”edge computing” och bygger på att hantering av data sker närmare användaren, på lokala enheter och servrar. Problemet är om inte akut, så näst intill. Om bara några få år kommer flera miljarder prylar att vara uppkopplade och då räcker dagens molnlösningar inte till, konstaterar Firouzi i sin avhandling.

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November 27, 2023

Västra Götalandsregionen (VGR) är tidigt ute som offentlig aktör att bygga ett eget 5G-nät. Syftet är i första hand att få till en smart, snabb och smidig kommunikation inom regionens vård- och omsorgsinrättningar, men programansvarig Tony Hertz är övertygad om att positiva effekter finns att vänta för regionens alla övriga förvaltningar och bolag.

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November 27, 2023

China started to assemble what seems to be the world’s first commercial underwater data center off the coast of Sanya, a coastal city south of Hainan Island. According to CCTV, each data storage unit can process more than four million high-definition images in 30 seconds. The estimated performance claimed to be comparable to approximately 60,000 regular computers operating in unison and aims to save 122 million KWh of electricity and nearly ten soccer fields of land.

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November 27, 2023

European mobile data traffic will triple by 2028 driven by the adoption of 5G and migration into 4G, which continue to put pressure on network investments, telecom industry group GSMA said on Thursday. The GSMA, which brings together more than 1,000 mobile phone operators and businesses, said 5G subscribers were interested in adding high-bandwidth services and content to their mobile contracts, as demand for high-quality gaming, extended reality, and video content grows.

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November 21, 2023

Microsoft has ramped up its commitments to conserve water and energy in its data centers, laying out new cooling tech and strategies that could push notoriously thirsty and energy hungry servers past their current limits. The company’s latest environmental pledge comes as it plans to dramatically expand the number of data centers it operates around the world, a move that could put more stress on drought-stricken communities unless the company finds ways to use less water. Microsoft plans to slash the amount of water its data centers use by 95 percent by 2024, with the goal of “eventually” eliminating water use. That builds on a commitment it made last year to become “water positive” by the end of the decade, meaning it would replenish more water than it uses for its operations. In 2020, Microsoft also committed to becoming carbon negative by the same deadline, meaning it plans to draw down and store more planet-heating CO2 than it releases.

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November 20, 2023

France, Germany and Italy have reached an agreement on how artificial intelligence should be regulated, according to a joint paper seen by Reuters, which is expected to accelerate negotiations at the European level. The three governments support "mandatory self-regulation through codes of conduct" for so-called foundation models of AI, which are designed to produce a broad range of outputs. But they oppose "un-tested norms."

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November 13, 2023

Facebook-owner Meta and Google's YouTube now face criminal complaints in Ireland for alleged unlawful surveillance of EU citizens via tracking scripts. Privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, has challenged Meta's collection of data without explicit consent under Ireland's computer abuse law. He told The Register he's also in the process of filing a similar criminal complaint against YouTube over its use of scripts to detect ad blocking extensions in people's web browsers. Two weeks ago, Hanff filed a civil complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission against YouTube's browser interrogation system, which detects ad blocking software and refuses to play videos unless adverts are allowed or subscription money handed over. The regulators are right now waiting on a reply from Google to provide an update on the status of that claim.

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November 10, 2023

The AI Pin is powered by a Snapdragon processor — though it’s not clear which one — and you control it with a combination of voice control, a camera, gestures, and a small built-in projector. The Pin itself weighs about 34 grams, and the “battery booster” adds another 20. The built-in camera takes 13-megapixel photos and will capture video as well after a software update. Unlike a device like the Rewind Pendant, it’s not meant to be always recording, and it’s not even listening for a wake word. You’ll have to activate the device manually by tapping and dragging on the touchpad, and the Pin’s “Trust Light” blinks to let you and supposedly everyone else know it’s collecting data.

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November 10, 2023

Need another indicator that the generative artificial intelligence industry is real and making progress? Look at the booming business of data labeling and annotation, which is an essential step in training the models that power AI products ranging from what’s currently vogue in the industry—chatbots!— to ongoing projects such as self-driving vehicles and tools that diagnose diseases. The data labeling service began generating revenue last year, with the business getting “very big, very quickly,” he said. Jäätma estimates that 80% of the business comes from companies essentially looking to make avatars less cartoonish.

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November 10, 2023

IT spending in Europe is set to hit $1 trillion by the end of 2023, and will see growth of 9.3 percent into next year, well up on this year's figure of 5.5 percent, according to stats from Gartner. The tech industry research house said Europe's IT spending would reach $1.1 trillion in 2024, driven by investments in software and IT services. Declining demand for devices — including laptops, desktops, phones and tablets — have created a drag on IT spending in the last couple of years. It is left to enterprise IT spending to drive growth in the tech industry, although Europe slightly lags the US in that regard, he said. "Europe tends to look at how things look before they leap a little bit more than the US, which is a much larger market," he said. Nonetheless, tech spending in Europe remains relatively recession-proof, regardless of concerning GDP figures across the continent.

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November 6, 2023

Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk’s new AI company, xAI. Grok, the company said, is modeled on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It is supposed to have “a bit of wit,” “a rebellious streak,” and it should answer the “spicy questions” that other AI might dodge, according to a Saturday statement from xAI. The prototype is in its first two months of training and is only available to a select group of users before a wider release. Musk is positioning xAI to compete with OpenAI, Inflection, Anthropic and others.

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November 6, 2023

Sverige håller på att bli omsprunget när det gäller digitalisering. Det skriver civilminister Erik Slottner (KD) och representanter för Tidöpartierna i Sydsvenskan. De lyfter att både Finland och Danmark rankas högre på EU:s index för digital ekonomi och samhälle. Men Sverige borde ligga i framkant, tycker de: ”Först och främst behöver Sverige kopplas upp. Ett fungerande bredband är lika viktigt som ett bra vägnät.” De lyfter att regeringen satsar 1,2 miljarder kronor på bredbandsprojekt nästa år.

November 3, 2023

The most advanced technology companies will allow governments to vet their artificial intelligence tools for the first time, Rishi Sunak has announced, as Elon Musk warned the technology could eventually replace all human jobs. Companies including Meta, Google DeepMind and OpenAI have agreed to allow regulators to test their latest AI products before releasing them to the public, in a move that officials say will slow the race to develop systems that can compete with humans.

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November 3, 2023

Today, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort that it calls the Secure Future Initiative. It will have three main goals that the company says should offer better protection against the threat of cybercriminals. Microsoft Brad Smith stated in a blog post that this new initiative came about because the company has decided "that the increasing speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks call for a new response." He summarized this new initiative by stating it will have "three pillars, focused on AI-based cyber defenses, advances in fundamental software engineering, and advocacy for stronger application of international norms to protect civilians from cyber threats."

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November 2, 2023

China and the US agreed to work together with at least 25 other countries to mitigate any risks arising out of the progression of AI. The two countries, along with several other countries including the EU, India Germany, and France, signed an agreement, dubbed Bletchley Declaration, at the UK AI Safety Summit to form a common line of thinking that would oversee the evolution of AI and ensure that the technology is advancing safely.

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November 1, 2023

I USA pågår det just nu en antitrusträttegång mot Google som har medfört att det har kommit fram en del information om tidigare inte har varit känd för allmänheten. När Googles VD Sundar Pichai tog plats i vittnesbåset avslöjade han bland annat en del om hur det fungerar med de olika tillverkarnas arbete med säkerhetsuppdateringar för operativsystemet, och varför olika OEM-tillverkare släpper olika många uppdateringar. Föga förvånande handlar det om pengar, och enligt Pichai har Google ekonomiska incitament för att få OEM-tillverkare att uppdatera sina mobiler. Företag som håller sina enheter uppdaterade med de senaste säkerhetsuppdateringarna får nämligen en högre andel av intäkterna från Googles tjänster än de som inte gör det. Fler uppdateringar innebär alltså mer pengar för tillverkaren. Slutsatsen av Pichais uttalande blir att för tillverkare med få användare blir det dyrare att anpassa och publicera en säkerhetsuppdatering, än vad de ökade intäkterna från användarna ger tillbaka.

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October 31, 2023

President Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging executive order on Monday that aims to safeguard against threats posed by artificial intelligence, ensuring that bad actors do not use the technology to develop devastating weapons or mount supercharged cyberattacks. The executive order exerts oversight over safety tests that companies use to evaluate conversation bots such as ChatGPT and introduces industry standards like watermarks for identifying AI-fueled products, among other regulations.

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October 30, 2023

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI executives, CNBC has confirmed. The commitment involves a $500 million upfront cash infusion and an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time, an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC. Anthropic is the developer of Claude 2, a rival chatbot to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that’s used by companies including Slack, Notion and Quora. The company was founded in 2021 and, in addition to Google, has received funding from Salesforce and Zoom and was valued earlier this year at $4.1 billion.

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October 30, 2023

Yesterday, the United Nations announced a new AI advisory board — 39 people from across government, academia and industry — with an aim “to undertake analysis and advance recommendations for the international governance of AI.” The advisory board will operate as a bridging group, covering any other initiatives that are put together around AI by the international organization, the UN said. Indeed, in forming a strategy and approach on AI, the UN has been talking for the better part of a month with industry leaders and other stakeholders, from what we understand. The plan is to bring together recommendations on AI by the summer of 2024, when the UN plans to hold a “Summit of the Future” event. The new advisory board is meeting for the first time today.

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October 26, 2023

In an interview with German business newspaper Handelsblatt, the 67-year-old said that there were plenty of reasons to believe that GPT technology reached a plateau. He also admitted that he could be wrong. He said that contrary to what people at OpenAI think about GPT-5, he believes that current generative AI has reached a ceiling. Talking about benchmark, he termed the leap from GPT-2 to GPT-4 as “incredible”. In his interview, Gates also predicted that in the next two to five years, the accuracy of AI software will witness a considerable increase along with a reduction in cost. This will lead to the creation of new and reliable applications.

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October 23, 2023

Europe has a unique combination of multiple languages and cultures, abundant science and tech talent, and long-standing strengths in the manufacturing and services sectors. Taken together, these regional advantages render the transformative potential of generative AI especially compelling in a number of industries across the entire value chain—and for society at large. This McKinsey article highlights how Europe's unique characteristics and commitment to regulation provide a fertile ground for generative AI adoption and transformation across various industries, with potential economic and social benefits.

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October 23, 2023

A new and very unusual chip design made by IBM provides a distinct approach to cutting AI's energy costs. The company's new NorthPole processor has taken some of the ideas behind previous approaches and merged them with a very stripped-down technique for running calculations to create a highly power-efficient chip that can efficiently execute inference-based neural networks. The chip can be up to 35 times more efficient than relying on a GPU for things like image classification or audio transcription.

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October 21, 2023

I veckans bolagsspotlight får vi träffa den svenska entreprenören och företagsledaren Per Bystedt. Han är kanske mest känd för att ha varit chef för ikoniska svenska bolag som ZTV, TV3, Spray och Neonode. Nu är han aktuell med en ny startup, Xiris Group, med utvecklar lösningar för mobil interaktiv realtidsstreaming. De har också släppt en internetuppkopplad klocka, PLATONUM®, även om bolagets verksamhet inte är fokuserad på hårdvara, utan som han beskriver det, för att få stora företag att kunna se ett handfast ”coolt” exempel på hur tekniken kan appliceras. Han avslöjar också att en börsnotering av bolaget framöver är något som kan ligga i korten: ”Det är absolut en möjlighet och det har vi sagt till våra investerare att det ligger i planen. Sen när exakt man gör det får vi se. Jag tror det finns ett stort intresse från aktiemarknaden att investera i något konkret i hela den här 5G-fasen vi är inne i nu” säger han i podden.

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October 20, 2023

Doldissvensken Mattias Åström vill bygga en europeisk utmanare till de amerikanska molnjättarna Amazon, Google och Microsoft. Investeringsbehovet uppskattar han, i en intervju med Di, till minst 115 miljarder kronor på sikt.”Bolag som Northvolt har bevisat att det går att finansiera och förverkliga nya stora industriprojekt”, säger han.

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October 18, 2023

IoT devices offer vast opportunities, but the market is diverse. At The Things Conference 2023 in Amsterdam, the breadth of applications was evident, ranging from government to healthcare. What’s needed is a level of device and network maturity that allows users not to have to worry about which device type, which sensors, or which connectivity technology they must use to benefit from IoT. Beyond that, effectively using data to benefit businesses remains a challenge.

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October 18, 2023

Magnus Bjorkman, CEO of Tension and a gamification app developer, invites you into his world. Magnus is working to redefine and revolutionize sport and its fan engagement in Sweden, Europe and the world with a focus on gamification and 5G. This behind-the-scenes story profiles his journey in life, putting the customer experience first to create immersive sports fan experiences in his native Sweden and beyond.

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October 17, 2023

Emanuel Karlsten, a Swedish journalist, recently demonstrated how AI technology can manipulate both sound and pictures on the Swedish show "Nyhetsmorgon". In one example, he used AI to replace the voices of the hosts in a video, resulting in a segment that could be watched and heard in different languages with voices that were almost identical to the original hosts. He also presented a voice memo where the voice of the Swedish prime minister announced the hosts as new ministers, also generated by AI. This experiment highlights the potential of AI to create realistic audio and visual content, which can have both positive and negative implications in the future.

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October 17, 2023

According to a new report from McKinsey, Generative AI has the potential to significantly increase productivity in the business sector. Sweden is well-positioned to benefit from this technology, as companies around the world are already using it to gain a competitive edge. Sweden, being a digitally mature country with a population that is accustomed to dealing with complex tasks, is expected to quickly adopt and benefit from generative AI technology. Gardar Björnsson Rova, partner at McKinsey and Nordic head of McKinsey's AI department QuantumBlack, states that generative AI technology could have a rapid impact in Sweden.

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October 17, 2023

The EU is creating a Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) to boost manufacturing capacity in digital and clean technologies (including cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and 5G) and biotechnologies and to address labor and skill shortages in these sectors. This platform will aim to strengthen value chains and support the strategic sovereignty of the EU. The EU's main strategic goals are to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy towards green and digital transformations.

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October 16, 2023

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has unveiled an ambitious plan to enhance the nation's AI capabilities. The proposal aims to build a formidable computing infrastructure, comprising high-end compute, inference arm, and edge compute, with a total of 80 exaflops of power. This infrastructure is set to revolutionize AI training and inference in India. Additionally, plans for the India Datasets Platform (IDP) highlight the importance of aggregating and utilizing data for various applications. Despite challenges, this vision positions India for a significant leap in AI innovation.

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October 13, 2023

Artificial intelligence abounds, and it’s only making its way deeper and deeper into every scrap of technology we use. Generative AI in particular is an invention that seems destined to follow us far into the future, so it’s best to try to make sense of where it’s headed. In a recent episode of the Business Wars podcast, Michael Calore and Lauren Goode from WIRED magazine joined the host to discuss the rapid rise of AI in recent years. They explored the future of artificial intelligence and whether the portrayal of AI in movies accurately predicts what's to come. The conversation offered valuable insights into the current state of AI and its potential impact on various industries.

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October 12, 2023

AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard consume an astronomical amount of electricity and water — or, more precisely, the massive data centers that power them do. In a recent analysis published in the journal Joule, data scientist Alex de Vries at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands found that by 2027, these server farms could use anywhere between 85 to 134 terawatt hours of energy per year. That's roughly on par with the annual electricity use of Argentina, the Netherlands, or Sweden, as the New York Times points out, or 0.5 percent of the entire globe's energy demands. Sound familiar? The much-lampooned crypto industry spiked past similar power consumption thresholds in recent years. It's a massive carbon footprint that experts say should force us to reconsider the huge investments being made in the AI space — not to mention the eye-wateringly resource-intensive way that tech giants like OpenAI and Google operate.

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October 11, 2023

En unik inblick i svenskarnas digitala liv: Välkommen till Svenskarna och internet 2023, en unik undersökning av svenska folkets digitala tillvaro. Med den här rapporten vill Internetstiftelsen bidra med fakta och insikter om hur användningen av internet i Sverige utvecklas och ge förutsättningar till att digitaliseringen av det svenska samhället och näringslivet sker på välinformerad grund.

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October 10, 2023

The goal of this analysis is to highlight the gap that we see today. AI hype has finally caught up to the deep learning technology breakthroughs in development since 2017. This is good news. A major CapEx buildout is happening. This should bring AI development costs down dramatically over the long-term. You used to have to buy a server rack to build any application. Now you can use the public clouds at a much lower cost. Likewise, today many AI companies are using a large portion of their venture capital on GPUs. As today’s supply constraints give way to a supply glut, the cost of running AI workloads will come down. This should spur more product development. It should also attract more founders to build in this space.

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October 10, 2023

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled a plan on Monday to hold a video conference with Group of Seven leaders this autumn to formulate international guidelines and a code of conduct for developers of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The envisaged compilation of the guidelines and code of conduct is part of the Hiroshima AI Process, an initiative for international best practices regarding generative AI, according to the Japanese leader.

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October 9, 2023

China aims to grow the country’s computing power by more than a third in less than three years, a move set to benefit local suppliers and boost technology self-reliance as US sanctions pressure domestic industry. The world’s second-largest economy is targeting more than 300 exaflops of computing capacity across its tech sector by 2025 from 220 this year, according to a joint statement from several agencies including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The goal marks Beijing’s latest attempt to construct digital infrastructure to spur a sluggish economy.

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October 6, 2023

Med stöd från EU kommer Telia och Ericsson skapa 150 kilometer 5G-försedda transportkorridorer längs utvalda sträckor i Göteborg och Stockholm. Infrastrukturen är ämnad att stödja utvecklingen av smarta och hållbara transportlösningar. Fullskaliga tester mellan olika logistikhubbar ska kunna starta andra kvartalet 2024.

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October 6, 2023

I mentioned “the rise of AI” in a recent email to investors, one of them sent me an interesting reply: “The ‘rise of AI’ is a bit of a misnomer.” What that investor, Rudina Seseri, a managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, means to say is that sophisticated technologies like AI and deep learning have been around for a long time now, and all this hype around AI is ignoring the simple fact that they have been in development for decades. “We saw the earliest enterprise adoption in 2010,” she pointed out.

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September 30, 2023

Sverige har som mål att ta täten i utvecklingen kring sjätte generationens trådlösa system. Därför satsar regeringen nästa år 65 miljoner kronor på forskning och innovation inom 6G. Vetenskapsrådet erhåller 15 miljoner och Vinnova 50 miljoner.

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September 29, 2023

Apple’s former chief design officer, Jony Ive, is reportedly in discussions with OpenAI to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence,” aided by over $1 billion in funding from Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. According to a new report by the Financial Times, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is looking to use Ive’s design firm LoveFrom to develop OpenAI’s first consumer device, with the duo having discussed what such a product would look like during brainstorming sessions at Ive’s San Francisco studio. News of the venture was first reported by The Information on Tuesday.

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September 29, 2023

Luleå tekniska universitet (LTU) ansluter sig till Northstar – Telias och Ericssons industriella 5G-satsning, och får därmed tillgång till ett specialutvecklat 5G-nät med Ericssons senaste 5G-teknik. Northstar-programmet vill accelerera användningen av 5G i industrin, med särskilt fokus på smart och hållbar transport. LTU ansluter sin befintliga 5G-testbädd mot Northstarnätet som bjuder på nya förmågor positionering, network slicing och edge computing.

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September 27, 2023

Bildbyrån Getty Images har inlett ett samarbete med chipjätten Nvidia och lanserar nu ett bildverktyg som låter användarna skapa AI-genererade bilder med utgångspunkt från Gettys licensierade foton. Det rapporterar The Verge

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September 26, 2023

The wildly popular generative AI assistant has been one of the biggest technology success stories of recent times since its debut some nine months ago, allowing anyone to generate essays, poems and summaries from simple text-based prompts. But now, ChatGPT is about to get a lot more interactive, with users also able to have a voice conversation with the chatbot

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September 25, 2023

Thomas Eriksson vill använda streaming-teknologin för att revolutionera mobil och "wearables"-marknaden på nytt. Genom att realtids-streama appar eller annonser i stället för att ladda ned dem.

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September 21, 2023

Open AI har nu offentliggjort en ny version av sin populära AI-baserade bildgenerator DALL-E. Den nya versionen –DALL-E 3 – kan användas tillsammans med chattboten Chat-GPT, vilket i korthet innebär att Chat-GPT kan skapa de detaljerade promptar som guidar DALL-E.

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September 19, 2023

I korthet innebär lagen att bolagen inte får stöta bort mindre konkurrenter inom sitt område, spåra användare utanför sina plattformar utan godkännande eller göra det omöjligt att avinstallera vissa appar eller program i telefonen eller datorn.

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September 15, 2023

Philipp Skogstad, CEO of Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, shares the story of bringing generative AI to 900,000 beta testers and discusses the vision, impact, challenges, and path forward for generative AI applications in the automotive sector.

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September 13, 2023

As organizations rapidly deploy generative AI tools, survey respondents expect significant effects on their industries and workforces. Content: 1. It’s early days still, but use of gen AI is already widespread 2. Leading companies are already ahead with gen AI 3. AI-related talent needs shift, and AI’s workforce effects are expected to be substantial 4. With all eyes on gen AI, AI adoption and impact remain steady

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September 13, 2023

It-infrastrukturbolaget Transtema har tecknat avtal med Telenor avseende utbyggnad och uppgradering av 5G-nätverket i Sverige. Det framgår av ett pressmeddelande. Enligt Transtema saknar avtalet volymåtaganden vilket gör det svårt att uppskatta eventuellt framtida ordervärde. Dock påpekas det att Telenor har ambitiösa 5G-planer i Sverige. Målet är att leverera 5G-nät till hela landet genom Net4Mobility, ett samarbete man delar med Tele2.

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September 12, 2023

I juli samlades sju amerikanska techjättar – däribland Amazon, Google, Meta och Microsoft – och enades om en rad punkter kring AI. Det handlar bland annat om att säkerhetstesta tekniken, undvika intrång i privatlivet och att använda AI för att lösa ”samhällets största utmaningar” som cancer och klimatkrisen. Nu har alltså ytterligare åtta företag skrivit på manifestet: Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI och Stability.

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September 7, 2023

Att kombinera frekvensblock för att öka prestandan anses vara avgörande för att skapa bästa möjliga 5g-nätverk. Tekniken kallas carrier aggregation – och nu har Ericsson slagit rekord, samt uppnått en nedladdningshastighet på 5,7 gigabit per sekund.

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September 6, 2023

Svenska forskare har tagit fram ett AI-verktyg för textanalys som ska användas i kampen mot terrorism, rapporterar SVT. Verktyget, som heter Dechefr, ska kunna upptäcka våldsverkare genom att identifiera varningsbeteenden i digital kommunikation.

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September 6, 2023

Cristiano Amon, VD för den amerikanska chiptillverkaren Qualcomm, tror att artificiell intelligens kan blåsa nytt liv i smartphonemarknaden. "Toppmötet [Snapdragon] kommer att handla om otroliga användningsfall som vi ser från våra OEM-tillverkare [original equipment manufacturers] och telefoner och ... kan skapa en ny uppgraderingscykel för telefoner", sa Amon. Han tillade att Qualcomm går en annan väg än sin huvudkonkurrent Nvidia. Företaget har för avsikt att integrera AI i smartphones och andra enheter, snarare än i datacenter.

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September 5, 2023

Nu får vi människor erkänna oss besegrade inom ännu ett område. Vi har tidigare uppmärksammat att diverse AI-system lyckats besegra världsmästare i brädspel som schack och go och nu är det dags för nästa steg i utvecklingen. AI-systemet Swift har nämligen lyckats besegra tre av världens bästa drönarflygare, detta i en tävling som anordnades av Zürichs universitet i samarbete med Intel.

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September 3, 2023

– Överenskommelsen om lagen om digitala tjänster är en milstolpe i internetregleringens historia. DSA förflyttar oss mot en onlinevärld som, genom att bromsa Big Techs okontrollerade makt, bättre respekterar våra mänskliga rättigheter, säger Claudia Prettner, rådgivare inom juridik och policy på Amnesty Tech.

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August 31, 2023

Ericsson Mobility Report Q2 2023 Update: Explore industry-leading projections and analysis of the latest trends in the mobile industry. Our forecasts are based on past and current data, validated with extensive network measurements. Discover the latest figures for 5G, IoT, fixed wireless access and more.

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August 30, 2023

Every time Cristiano Ronaldo posts a photo on Instagram, his 500-million followers have to interact with a server to view it. The power required for all those people to see his photo is the equivalent of the power needed to heat two houses for a full year. Now imagine thousands and thousands of photos posted every minute, all the scrolling, googling, streaming… Every action on our electronic devices requires a data center, resulting in a huge consumption of energy and significant greenhouse gas emissions. So, what difference could it make to climate change if data centers transform the way they operate? Lars Schedin, our latest guest on The Switch Podcast, talks to us about how this is possible. Lars co-founded EcoDataCenter in 2016, one of the world’s first climate-positive data centers. In the new episode of #notanotherpodcast we talked with Lars about his path, the future of data centers and importance of making them more sustainable.

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August 29, 2023

Den tyska regeringen kommer att lägga motsvarande 12 miljarder kronor på AI-forskning under de två kommande åren. Det rapporterar Reuters. Det innebär att Tyskland nu satsar dubbelt så mycket pengar på artificiell intelligens som landet tidigare gjort, och tanken är att Tyskland med hjälp av satsningen ska kunna tävla med USA och Kina på området. Satsningen innefattar bland annat att det tillkommer 150 AI-laboratorier på tyska universitet.

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August 28, 2023

The top executives at tech companies, including the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, are among the confirmed guests at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) first scheduled “Insight Forum” about artificial intelligence (AI), the senator’s office said Monday. The AI Insight Forum, scheduled for Sept. 13, will also include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet. In addition to the executives, others from “worker, advocacy, civil rights, and creative groups,” will join as guests, according to Schumer’s office.

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August 26, 2023

Medan teleoperatörerna för fulla muggar försöker få finländare att ta till sig 5G-tekniken håller ett hundratal finländska forskare och tekniska visionärer på att skissa fram nästa generations mobilnätverk. En av dem är Mikko Uusitalo, forskningschef på Nokia Bell Labs. – Vi har redan byggt upp testsystem i mindre skala för att visa upp 6G på olika teknikmässor, men rent tekniskt går det inte att göra ett fullskaligt system än. Eftersom Kina och USA glider allt längre isär geopolitiskt inför nästa generations mobiltelefoni är det av högsta prioritet att enas om en global standard för 6G. Det här är något som alla länder är överens om.

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August 24, 2023

In an era marked by increasing environmental concerns and a growing need for sustainable technology solutions, interactive real-time streaming offers a remarkable opportunity to minimize the carbon footprint associated with app usage. With this in mind, UX Stream has developed our unique MIRS™-technology, Mobile Interactive Real-Time Streaming, and here we present how it can lower carbon footprint and reduce energy consumption in Data Centers.

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August 23, 2023

OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve the text-generating AI model’s reliability while building in specific behaviors. OpenAI claims that fine-tuned versions of GPT-3.5 can match or even outperform the base capabilities of GPT-4, the company’s flagship model, on “certain narrow tasks.” “Since the release of GPT-3.5 Turbo, developers and businesses have asked for the ability to customize the model to create unique and differentiated experiences for their users,” the company wrote in a blog post published this afternoon. “This update gives developers the ability to customize models that perform better for their use cases and run these custom models at scale.”

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August 23, 2023

In 1995, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates sent a memo calling the internet a “tidal wave” that would be crucial to every part of the company’s business. Nearly two decades later, Microsoft’s current leader, Satya Nadella, said he believes the impact of artificial intelligence will be just as profound. “The Bill memo in 1995, it does feel like that to me,” Nadella said on this week’s episode of The Circuit With Emily Chang. “I think it’s as big.”

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August 22, 2023

AT&T Inc. is launching a new wireless home internet service, catching up to its rivals in one of the few promising areas where mobile carriers are putting high-capacity 5G networks to use. Phone giant trails its mobile peers in this key growth area. Service uses surplus capacity to target copper-line customers.

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August 22, 2023

On Tuesday, the company released SeamlessM4T: a multimodal model that translates text to speech and vice versa. Meta claims SeamlessM4T is "the first all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model," meaning it is uniquely able to translate and transcribe languages at the same time. SeamlessM4T can translate speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, text-to-speech, and text-to-text inputs for up to 100 languages. Translations for speech-to-speech and text-to-speech translations outputs support 35 languages.

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August 20, 2023

Tidigare i somras beslutade EU att flygbolag ska få erbjuda 5G-teknologi till sina flygpassagerare. Det gör att samtal, sms och mobildata snart kan finnas tillgängligt på flyget, även på 10 000 meters höjd.

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August 18, 2023

Patentpoolen Avanci, med Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, Interdigital, Huawei och 53 andra företag som medlemmar, har släppt priset för att koppla ett fordon med 5G. Det ligger på 32 dollar men den som är snabb kommer undan med 29. Mercedes är den första officiella kunden till Avancis nya licensprogram som täcker 5G men också de äldre standarderna 4G, 3G och 2G. Inkluderat i licensen är så kallade standardessentiella patent från 58 företag.

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August 17, 2023

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is building an ambitious new organization to tackle scientific challenges with the help of artificial intelligence, according to people briefed on the plans. Schmidt has already hired two accomplished scientists to spearhead the nonprofit initiative: Samuel Rodriques, founder of the Applied Biotechnology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute; and Andrew White, a University of Rochester professor and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in chemistry. People familiar with the plans say the effort is modeled after OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

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August 15, 2023

Elon Musk's electric auto outfit Tesla appears to be building new datacenters. A recently posted job ad seeks a "Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Data Centers," to be based in Austin, Texas, and "lead the end-to-end design and engineering of Tesla's 1st of its kind Data Centers."

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August 15, 2023

Forskare vid UC-Berkeley har upptäckt att data om hand- och huvudrörelser kan vara lika bra som fingeravtryck och ansiktsskanningar för att identifiera användare, vilket väcker en mängd frågor om integritet i takt med att användningen av headset ökar.

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August 15, 2023

Den AI-revolutionen som vi befinner oss i är i stort sett ingenting. Inte om man jämför med ett annat potentiellt teknikgenombrott. Det säger en ledande fysiker som kallar ChatGPT och dess likar för “glorifierade bandspelare”.

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August 11, 2023

Medan 5G blir allt mer vanligt förekommande jobbar hårdvarutillverkare på att förbättra upplevelsen för framtida konsumenter. Qualcomm presenterade nya 5G-modemet Snapdragon X75 i februari och visar i nytt test vad det går för.

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August 10, 2023

With the development of scalable, full-stack software and hardware systems based on AI, Continental, and Ambarella are jointly paving the way toward autonomous mobility. And with MIRS™-Mobile Interactive Real-time Streaming- technology from XIRIS portfolio company UX Stream and a solid fallback system in place, the car could drive itself.

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August 10, 2023

Glöm streaming, buffring och fullt minne på dina enheter. Det svenska företaget UXStream vill införa ett nytt paradigmskifte i den digitala tidsåldern. De kallar det MIRS – Mobile Interactive Real Time Streaming. Lyssna här!

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August 8, 2023

Chipjätten Nvidia har presenterat ett nytt chip som är framtaget med krävande AI-modeller i åtanke. Det handlar om en vidareutvecklad version av det GH200-chip som Nvidia lanserade i våras. Enligt Nvidia så ska den nya versionen av GH200 kunna köra AI-modeller 3,5 gånger snabbare än den befintliga versionen, skriver Venturebeat.

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August 3, 2023

Dell har aviserat att företaget nu gör en större satsning på AI, något som bland annat ska hjälpa företag att skapa egna verktyg för generativ AI. Det rapporterar Computer Sweden.

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August 3, 2023

USA:s rymdmyndighet Nasa och IBM har gått samman för att ta fram AI Foundation Model for Earth Observation, en AI-grundmodell i öppen källkod tänkt att användas för forskning om jorden. Modellen är byggd på data från satelliter och fjärranalys, inklusive data från Harmonized Landsat och Sentinel-2:s högupplösta bilder över land- och kustregioner i 13 olika spektralband.

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August 2, 2023

With increasing power comes more challenges that need to be solved. In particular, higher power leads to disproportionately greater transmission and conversion losses: which is power that is being wasted. With electricity costs being one of the largest expenses in the datacenter, reducing power loss is vital to improving TCO. As a result, we are now seeing power delivery networks at the rack level down to the chip level being re-architected to address this in power-hungry compute workloads such as AI training and inferencing.

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August 1, 2023

Han är professor vid Massachusetts Institute of technology, MIT, och leder organisationen Future of life institute, som vill minska riskerna med artificiell intelligens. Tillsammans med flera forskare, politiker och företagsledare undertecknade Max Tegmark nyligen ett uttalande från Center for AI safety Center för AI saftety där AI pekas ut som ett existentiellt hot.

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July 28, 2023

Ericsson och Intel låter meddela att de båda företagen ska samarbeta för att ta fram ett nytt 5g-chipp. Chippet är tänkt att användas i Ericssons nätverksutrustning och baseras på en ny produktionsteknik från Intel som kallas för 18A. Enligt nyhetsbyrån Reuters kommer den nya tekniken att tas i bruk först 2025, så räkna med att det dröjer något år innan tillverkningen av det nya 5g-chippet kommer i gång på allvar.

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July 22, 2023

Leading AI developers including Google and OpenAI promised the Biden administration to check for problems such as biased output. The agreement is not legally binding. THE WHITE HOUSE has struck a deal with major AI developers—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—that commits them to take action to prevent harmful AI models from being released into the world.

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July 22, 2023

Normalt sett tävlar de mot varandra för att få herraväldet inom framtidens framväxande AI-bransch. I dag har de sju amerikanska techjättarna enats om gemensamma spelregler. Vid ett möte i Vita huset, presenterade företagen fem punkter som de alla lovar att förhålla sig till

July 21, 2023

Despite facing campaigns and sanctions against Chinese-made 5G telecom equipment, Chinese telecom giant ZTE has seen a significant rise in its share price over the past year. In contrast, Ericsson and Nokia, its rivals from Europe, have experienced a drop in share prices. ZTE’s success can be attributed to China’s commitment to building 5G base stations and its focus on industrial applications. ZTE is the second-largest telecom equipment maker in China, right after Huawei.

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July 19, 2023

NU I SOMMAR har trådlösa standarden IEEE 802.11 formellt erkänt trådlös ljusbaserad kommunikation för lokala nätverk. Så kallad Li-Fi kan användas som komplement till Wi-Fi, med hastigheter mellan 10Mbit och upp till 9,6Gbps.

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July 19, 2023

När EU menar att "alla batterier" omfattas av det kommande kravet påminner de nu om att det verkligen betyder alla. De senaste åren har EU fattat flera beslut som påverkar allehanda konsumentelektronik, där USB Type-C som gemensam laddstandard kanske är en av de största. Vid sidan av detta har EU snickrat på ramverk som gäller batterier i bärbara enheter, närmare bestämt att slutanvändare ska ha möjlighet att byta ut det. För att inte lämna uppenbara luckor i kravet är EU vaga när det kommer till att peka ut specifika batteribestyckade produkter och nöjer sig med att säga "alla batterier".

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July 18, 2023

Telia har moderniserat mobilnätet och byggt 5G i en rasande fart det senaste året. Nu når det mer klimatsmarta 5G-nätet 73 procent av Sveriges befolkning, vilket innebär att 7 av 10 svenskar har tillgång till en säkrare, snabbare och mer pålitlig teknik som lägger grunden för en väl fungerande digital infrastruktur och hållbar utveckling av samhället.

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July 17, 2023

In partnership with Dealroom, Creandum created a report to take a closer look at the development of European Tech within the past 20 years. The data shows that Europe’s wealth of experienced VC investors, the talent amongst its 600 million plus population, the flywheel effect of creating many globally successful tech companies, entrepreneurial role models such as Daniel Ek, Sebastian Siemiatowski, Daniel Dines and Nikolay Storonsky and the dominance across emerging sectors such as Climate Tech and AI mean Europe is ready for its best period yet.

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July 15, 2023

Europeiska Unionen har sagt sitt och idag klubbades en ny lag igenom som kommer kräva av tillverkare att batterierna i mobiltelefoner från och med 2027 är utbytbara. Det skall med andra ord gå att vid behov installera ett nytt batteri på ett vis utan krav på vare sig specialkunskaper eller verktyg, med andra ord ungefär så det var från början bland (främst) android-telefoner under tidiga 2010-talet.

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July 14, 2023

"Trots de mer utmanande jämförelserna förväntas 5G växa med ytterligare 20-30 procent fram till 2027, men det kommer dock inte räcka för att kompensera för de kraftiga nedgångarna inom LTE", skriver Dell'Oro i pressmeddelandet.

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July 13, 2023

LiFi is a wireless technology that uses light rather than radio frequencies to transmit data. By harnessing the light spectrum, LiFi can unleash faster, more reliable wireless communications with unparalleled security compared to conventional technologies such as WiFi and 5G.

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July 13, 2023

”Bard finns nu på över 40 nya språk, inklusive arabiska, kinesiska, tyska, hindi, spanska med flera”, säger teknikjätten i en onlineuppdatering. Google fick tidigare backa på lanseringen av Chat GPT-rivalen i EU efter att tillsynsmyndigheten begärt fler sekretessfunktioner förra månaden.

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July 12, 2023

Enligt AMD:s VD Lisa Su kan AI-verktyg komma att dominera i takt med att moderna processorer blir mer avancerade att designa och utveckla. Artificiell intelligens (AI) och maskininlärning (ML) har nära oändliga användningsområden. Ett av dem är kretsutveckling, något hårdvarujättarna inte är främmande för. Nu instämmer även AMD i kören och under en konferens gör bolagets VD Lisa Su gällande att AI-baserade verktyg kommer dominera inom kretsdesign.

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July 12, 2023

Plans to secure the EU’s supply of chips by boosting production and innovation, and establishing emergency measures against shortages, were adopted by Parliament on Tuesday.

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July 11, 2023

Open AI uppger att företaget kommer lägga 20 procent av sin processorkraft de kommande fyra åren på att förhindra superintelligent AI från att orsaka skada.

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July 11, 2023

Det är operatören Tele2 som har släppt siffror på hur vi svenskar kommunicerar i olika delar av landet. Det visar bland annat att vi i genomsnitt förbrukar 16 gigabyte mobildata varje månad, men med ganska stora regionala skillnader. Jämtland förbrukar i snitt 21 gigabyte varje månad med Dalarna och Norrbotten en bit bakom med 19 gigabyte. Minst data förbrukas av Gotland som nöjer sig med 12 gigabyte per månad.

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July 10, 2023

Anledningen till förslaget är att en liten grupp teknikföretag står för en så stor mängd av datatrafiken att Spanien, Frankrike och Italien anser att de borde vara med och betala för trafiken genom att betala en del av kostnaderna för utbyggnader. Enligt den information som länderna har tagit upp i förslaget står de sex största innehållsleverantörerna i Europa för 55 procent av trafiken i de europeiska näten.

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July 10, 2023

MAVENS IN THE field of artificial intelligence, including architects of notorious “generative AI” systems like ChatGPT, now publicly express shared dread of terrible outcomes that might be wrought by their own creations. Many now call for a moratorium, or pause in AI development, allowing time for existing nations and institutions to innovate systems of control. To solve the “crisis” in artificial intelligence, AI beings must say, “I am me.”

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July 7, 2023

Based on their scores, EU countries fall into four performance groups: Innovation leaders, Strong innovators, Moderate innovators and Emerging innovators. Denmark is the new top innovator with the best performance in the EU, overtaking Sweden after a few years in leading position. Other Innovation Leaders are Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

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July 6, 2023

Nu står det klart att Silo AI köper Wallenbergs svenska AI-specialstyrka, Combient Mix. I ett strategiskt slag kopplas därmed 35 industrijättar samman med ett av Europas största bolag inom artificiell intelligens.

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July 5, 2023

Silicon Valley generative AI startup Inflection AI has raised $1.3 billion in a bid to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its AI personal assistant, Pi, which it plans to make available both directly to consumers and via an API. Pi is a “kind and supportive companion,” designed to offer “fast, relevant and helpful information and advice,” according to the company. It launched in May.