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Solana Labs launches Web3 incubator offering dev and fundraising support
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Solana Labs unveiled an all-new incubator program for project development on the Solana blockchain on Oct. 26. Title simply “Solana Incubator,” the program will offer fundraising, development, networking, and marketing support for web and blockchain projects seeking to build on Solana’s platform. Building a web3 startup on the Solana...
Neon Machine raises $20M Series A for blockchain-based Call of Duty competitor ‘Shrapnel’
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Web3 gaming developer Neon Machine raised $20 million in Series A funding toward the development of its highly anticipated extraction shooter, Shrapnel.This round follows a $10.5 million seed round completed in June of 2021. It was led by Polychain Capital and included funding from Griffin Gaming Partners, Brevan...
Researchers in China developed a hallucination correction engine for AI models
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A team of scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and Tencent’s YouTu Lab have developed a tool to combat “hallucination” by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Hallucination is the tendency for an AI model to generate outputs with a high level of confidence that don’t appear...
Humans and AI often prefer sycophantic chatbot answers to the truth — study
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Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) built on one of the most common learning paradigms have a tendency to tell people what they want to hear instead of generating outputs containing the truth. This, according to a study from Anthropic AI. In one of the first studies to...
New data poisoning tool would punish AI for scraping art without permission
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Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a tool that gives artists the ability to “poison” their digital art in order to stop developers from training artificial intelligence (AI) systems on their work. Called “Nightshade,” named after the family of plants — some of which are known for...
IBM’s new AI chip offers 22x speedup with ‘mind-blowing’ energy efficiency
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IBM recently debuted a new prototype artificial intelligence (AI) chip purported to be both faster and far more energy-efficient than any chip currently available.According to research published in Science Magazine on Oct. 19, the new chip, dubbed NorthPole, “achieves a 25 times higher energy metric” on a relevant...
US surveillance and facial recognition firm Clearview AI wins GDPR appeal in UK court
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U.S. surveillance and facial recognition firm Clearview AI has won a court appeal in the United Kingdom after being accused of alleged infractions related to the U.K’s general data protection regulation (GDPR). Originally, the company was fined nearly $10 million for breaches of the U.K.’s GDPR in May of...
Anthropic built a democratic AI chatbot by letting users vote for its values
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In what may be a first of its kind study, artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has developed a large language model (LLM) that’s been fine-tuned for value judgments by its user community.What does it mean for AI development to be more democratic? To find out, we partnered with...
Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI system, says overall performance ‘on par with ChatGPT’
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Baidu, one of China’s largest technology companies, released version 4.0 of its popular “Ernie” artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) chatbot.According to an English language translation provided by Baidu, embedded in an X post alongside the usual Google Translate subtitles, CEO Robin Li claimed the updated model...
Local Web3 community launches ‘Crypto Aid Israel’ to help displaced citizens
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A collective of local leaders in the cryptocurrency space, including Cointelegraph, 42Studio, MarketAcross, Collider Ventures, CryptoJungle, Nilos, Blockchain B7, Efficient Frontier, Ironblocks, the Israel Blockchain Association and Bits of Gold, have joined together to establish Crypto Aid Israel, a global fundraiser to help displaced Israeli citizens in need...