Author: Advanced AI Editor

[Image from Pixabay]The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative recently announced the establishment of the Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub to drive children’s healthcare innovation. Launched in collaboration with the Boston-based Charles H. Hood Foundation — which has committed $15 million toward the effort over the next five years — the hub will focus on developing technologies and treatments tailored specifically for children, meeting unmet needs in pediatric medicine. Leveraging MIT’s life science strengths, the hub will provide seed funding and strategic support for bold, high-impact research projects with the potential to transform children’s healthcare. In addition to supporting researchers with…

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But the topline figures obscure a fragmented regulatory approach The government wants the UK to provide an agile, adaptive environment for AI developers. Is the existing regulatory framework up to it? Following on from yesterday’s coverage in Computing of Labour Party proposals to manage and regulate AI technology development, the government yesterday set out it’s approach in response to the consultation it published last March. Last years’ white paper focused on an agile, pro-innovation approach to AI regulation. The government made clear that it wanted to regulate with a light touch. A crucial aspect of this light touch regulation was…

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Abstract illustration of low poly AI with line art icons.getty As AI art continues to morph into outré forms as it explodes across the creative landscape, a central gathering spot for artists has emerged from the tumult. AI Art Magazine recently launched “What’s On?” a section showcasing global AI art exhibitions, events and festivals. “With this initiative, we aim to provide a central platform where artists, curators, institutions and audiences can discover what’s happening in the field,” says the magazine’s c0-founder, Mike Brauner, who heads the Hamburg-based creative agency, Polardots Studio. The resource hub is meant to be inclusive. “Anyone…

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With IPOs stalled and valuations down from their 2021 peak, more companies are snapping up venture-backed startups so far this year than in quarters past, Crunchbase data shows. That includes not just an increase in M&A deals for startups overall, but also more startups buying their peers, and more private-equity buyers going after venture-backed companies. Those are some of the broad takeaways from Crunchbase data for Q1 2025. Let’s take a closer look. Startup M&A sees big YoY boost Q1 2025 was the strongest quarter for startup M&A dollar volume since 2021, totaling $71 billion in reported exit value globally,…

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On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireside chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is hosting a small number of developers and journalists at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company is also livestreaming the big keynotes and firesides for people around the world to tune in. LlamaCon will stream on the Meta for Developers Facebook Page, as well as on the Meta…

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#plagiarism #foundationmodels #tesla The best place to keep up to date with the latest and greatest from the ML world! OUTLINE: 0:00 – Intro & Sponsor 3:15 – A high-profile case of plagiarism shocks the ML world 11:55 – Stanford AI releases paper on “Foundation Models” 19:45 – Updates on Apple’s NeuralHash 20:45 – RL control for two-player splorts 21:45 – Tesla’s AI Day 23:55 – COMMA THREE announced 24:40 – Intel winding down RealSense cameras 25:20 – IBM unveils Telum Processor 25:50 – Lux AI Challenge & Neural MMO Challenge 26:50 – Dribnet’s CLIP PixelArt 27:40 – Multi-Agent RL…

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❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: 📝 The paper “eDiff-I: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Ensemble of Expert Denoisers” is available here: 🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible: Aleksandr Mashrabov, Alex Balfanz, Alex Haro, Andrew Melnychuk, Benji Rabhan, Bryan Learn, B Shang, Christian Ahlin, Edward Unthank, Eric Martel, Geronimo Moralez, Gordon Child, Jace O’Brien, Jack Lukic, John Le, Jonas, Jonathan, Kenneth Davis, Klaus Busse, Kyle Davis, Lorin Atzberger, Lukas Biewald, Luke Dominique Warner, Matthew Allen Fisher, Matthew Valle, Michael Albrecht, Michael Tedder, Nevin Spoljaric, Nikhil…

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