Nvidia announces new AI chips months after latest launch as market competition heats up

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1. Nvidia announces new AI chips months after latest launch as market competition heats up

Nvidia has unveiled its next generation of AI chips, dubbed "Rubin," ahead of the COMPUTEX tech conference in Taipei. The announcement follows the March announcement of the upcoming "Blackwell" model, which is still in production and expected to ship to customers later in 2024. Nvidia has pledged to release new AI chip models on a "one-year rhythm," underscoring the company's accelerated pace of advancement.

The Rubin chip platform will feature new GPUs and a central processor called "Vera." The turnaround from Blackwell to Rubin highlights the competitive frenzy in the AI chip market.

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2. A top secret meeting is kicking off in Madrid with the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft AI in attendance

AI CEOs from Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, Anthropic, and Mistral AI are among the top business and political leaders attending the annual Bilderberg Meeting in Madrid, Spain. The secretive meeting, which is subject to Chatham House rules, aims to foster informal discussions about major issues.

Key topics include AI safety, changing biology faces, climate, future warfare, geopolitical landscape, European economic challenges, US political landscape, Ukraine, Middle East, China, and Russia. The meeting comes as AI advancements pose questions about privacy, workforce, and society.

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3. Palantir wins $480 million AI computer vision deal with army

The US Army has awarded a $480 million contract to Palantir Technologies for work on the Maven Smart System project. The contract will continue through 2029 and will use Palantir's AI offerings to help militaries assess battlefield resources and identify enemy targets.

The Maven project uses AI and computer vision to help militaries assess their own battlefield resources. Palantir's Defense Department enterprise leader, Andrew Locke, said there are no technical limitations on data sources to integrate into the system.

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4. NVIDIA Releases Digital Human Microservices, Paving Way for Future of Generative AI Avatars

NVIDIA has announced the general availability of NVIDIA ACE generative AI microservices, which aim to accelerate the next wave of digital humans. The suite of technologies includes NVIDIA Riva ASR, TTS and NMT for automatic speech recognition, NVIDIA Nemotron LLM for language understanding and contextual response generation, NVIDIA Audio2Face for realistic facial animation, and NVIDIA Omniverse RTX for real-time, path-traced realistic skin and hair.

New technologies include NVIDIA Audio2Gesture for generating body gestures and NVIDIA Nemotron-3 4.5B for low-latency, on-device RTX AI PC inference.

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5. Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws

Australia's attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is set to introduce legislation to create a new criminal offense for sharing digitally altered "deepfake" pornographic images without consent. The legislation will make it illegal to share any non-consensual deepfake pornographic image with another person, either by email or personal message.

The change aims to catch up with technology and address the role of technology in spreading violent, degrading, and misogynistic imagery and ideas. The new offenses will only cover images depicting adults.

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