Did AI Make That? Etsy Makes It Easier to Tell If a Seller Used AI to Create a Product

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1. Did AI Make That? Etsy Makes It Easier to Tell If a Seller Used AI to Create a Product

Etsy has released new "Creativity Standards" to keep commerce human, allowing sellers to list items they have made, designed, sourced, or handpicked. AI-generated art is still allowed on Etsy as long as sellers are transparent about it. The platform will remove items that fail to meet these standards.

Etsy will launch a marketing campaign featuring real Etsy sellers on billboards across the U.S. and U.K. The update sees Etsy taking a clear position on AI, allowing it. In the past year, buyers have noticed AI art on the platform, even if sellers aren't transparent about using it.

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2. Occidental's 1PointFive to sell carbon credits to Microsoft

Microsoft has agreed to sell 500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from carbon capture firm 1PointFive over six years. The agreement is part of Microsoft's goal to become carbon-negative by 2030.

AT&T had also agreed to purchase CDR credits from 1PointFive earlier this year. The credits will be provided by STRATOS, a facility under construction in Texas.

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3. Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny

Microsoft has withdrawn from its observer position on OpenAI's board, less than eight months after securing the non-voting seat. Apple was reportedly planning to join OpenAI's nonprofit board, but the Financial Times reports that Apple will no longer join. OpenAI confirmed the decision, stating that it is establishing a new approach to informing and engaging key strategic partners and investors.

The changes come amid growing antitrust concerns over Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI. UK, EU, and FTC regulators are investigating Microsoft, Amazon, and Google's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic. Microsoft has invested over $10 billion in OpenAI.

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4. AMD Acquires Europe’s Largest Private AI Lab, Silo AI, for $665 Million

Advanced Micro Devices recently announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million.

The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2024, subject to regulatory approvals.

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5. A Novel RAG Framework that Instruction-Tunes a Single LLM for the Dual Purposes of Top-k Context Ranking and Answer Generation in RAG

Researchers from NVIDIA and Georgia Tech have developed an innovative framework called RankRAG to improve retrieval-augmented generation in LLMs. The framework instructs a single LLM to perform context ranking and answer generation within the RAG framework. It incorporates context-rich question-answering, retrieval-augmented QA, and ranking datasets.

The framework demonstrates superior performance in retrieval-augmented generation tasks across various benchmarks, including ChatQA-1.5 8B and ChatQA-1.5 70B. RankRAG also outperforms previous RAG baselines using InstructGPT and shows substantial improvements on challenging datasets.

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