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Meta Platforms Inc. has teamed up with Booz Allen Holding Corp., a U.S. government contractor, to develop an artificial intelligence system for the International Space Station. The companies detailed the project today. Space Llama, as the AI system is called, is based on a fine-tuned version of Meta’s Llama 3.2 language model series. It’s designed to support science projects in the ISS National Laboratory, a research lab located aboard the station. Certain types of materials are easier to mix in low-gravity conditions. As a result, astronauts use the ISS National Laboratory to study material combinations that would be difficult to…

ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, changing the tech world. Generative AI became the top priority for every tech company, and that’s how we ended up with “smart” fridges with built-in AI. Artificial intelligence is being built into everything, sometimes for the hype alone, with products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini having come a long way since late 2022.As soon as it became clear that genAI would reshape technology, likely leading to advanced AI systems that can do everything humans can do but better and faster, we started seeing worries that AI would negatively impact society and doom scenarios where…

“Whatever you want to do, whatever excites you, AI can make you a superhuman at that… it is such a tremendous tool to augment you.” Manish Gupta, Senior Director, Google DeepMind, is sure Google Gemini can help take Indian creativity to the next level, especially in light of a new Kantar study which found that a majority of Indians are seeking to boost productivity (72 per cent), enhance creativity (77 per cent), and communicate more effectively (73 per cent) using GenAI tools. “India is a country of enviable talent and energy and entrepreneurial spirit, but it’s being somewhat held back…

In brief An OpenAI researcher was forced to leave the U.S. after her green card was denied under stricter Trump-era immigration policies. Colleagues called the decision “nuts” and “deeply concerning,” warning that turning away top AI talent threatens U.S. leadership in the field. Despite advocating for high-skill immigration, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has thus far been silent on the incident. An OpenAI researcher who helped develop GPT-4.5 had her green card application rejected last week, forcing her to leave the United States after living and working in the country for 12 years.Kai Chen—a Canadian citizen—announced on social media that she’ll…

[Submitted on 12 Feb 2024 (v1), last revised 23 Apr 2025 (this version, v4)] Authors:Yangxinyu Xie, Bowen Jiang, Tanwi Mallick, Joshua David Bergerson, John K. Hutchison, Duane R. Verner, Jordan Branham, M. Ross Alexander, Robert B. Ross, Yan Feng, Leslie-Anne Levy, Weijie Su, Camillo J. Taylor View a PDF of the paper titled WildfireGPT: Tailored Large Language Model for Wildfire Analysis, by Yangxinyu Xie and 12 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Recent advancement of large language models (LLMs) represents a transformational capability at the frontier of artificial intelligence. However, LLMs are generalized models, trained on extensive text corpus, and…

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has hurt IBM’s profit margin. According to media reports, IBM had 15 of its federal contracts canceled due to DOGE-related cuts during the first quarter of 2025. These cuts amount to $100 million in future payments, per Bloomberg. “We’ve had a handful of contracts, either statement of work, or cancel and on our annualized backlog of over $30 billion in total consulting,” James Kavanaugh, IBM’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) said. He added that this was less than $100 million of backlog over a duration of multiple years. He continued by saying that though…

[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…

Between 2013 and 2024, global private sector investment in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, with a few countries leading the charge. Recent data reveals that 12 nations accounted for the bulk of global AI funding during this period, underscoring a growing international race for technological leadership. The United States leads by a wide margin, raising $471 billion—more than the rest of the world combined. China follows with $119 billion, while the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel round out the top five with $28 billion and $15 billion each, respectively. Read also: Top countries leading in artificial intelligence patents This concentrated…

#imle #backpropagation #discrete Backpropagation is the workhorse of deep learning, but unfortunately, it only works for continuous functions that are amenable to the chain rule of differentiation. Since discrete algorithms have no continuous derivative, deep networks with such algorithms as part of them cannot be effectively trained using backpropagation. This paper presents a method to incorporate a large class of algorithms, formulated as discrete exponential family distributions, into deep networks and derives gradient estimates that can easily be used in end-to-end backpropagation. This enables things like combinatorial optimizers to be part of a network’s forward propagation natively. OUTLINE: 0:00 -…

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