Technology not so much

If you believe corporate press releases, every company+dog has a plan to roll out AI projects. When a release is made the share price goes up, but when these same companies talk to regulators, they mysteriously forget to mention their AI plans.

Dimensity platform 9300 works with Llama 2

MediaTek has announced that it is teaming up with Meta to bring on-device generative AI to its next Dimensity platform.

Thanks to AI, old trains will be redundent 

The IBM Institute for Business Value claims that 40 per cent of the world’s workers will need to be retrained within the next three years to cope with the changes of AI to their workloads.

This is a repeat of 1995

Microsoft is repeating a memo that Sir William Gates III wrote about the internet in 1995 only this time it is talking about AI.

Terms and condition change

Software King of the World Microsoft is bringing in five new changes to its terms and conditions to handle AI.

Give it the muscle it needs

Quantum computing could turbo-charge AI into something "massively, universally transformative," according to the South China Morning Post.

Keep cutting tracks long after the singer is dead

Universal Music Group and Google are considering developing a tool that people can use to create AI-generated music using popular artists' voices and melodies.

Sending working women back to the 1900s

A new study by the McKinsey Global Institute claims that AI will kick more women than men out of the workforce.

AI is risky business

A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created  a new industrial-scale RISC-V CPU in under five hours.

MosaicML has a look under the bonnet of both

Artificial intelligence chips from AMD are about 80 per cent as fast as those from Nvidia but the way its chips are designed means that it is going to match its performance soon.