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Google rep denies using AI for live Senate responses, dodges market dominance claims

Tegan Jones — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 05:14:20 +0000

In a Senate committee on Friday, Google faced questions about its market dominance in search and AI, as well as the possible use of AI during the hearing.

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Neural Notes: Competition is good, contradiction is not in the race for global AI standards

Tegan Jones — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 01:51:36 +0000

In this edition: Aurélie Jacquet, director of Ethical AI Consulting and chair of Standards Australia’s AI Committee talks about the parts of AI implementation that aren't talked about enough. This includes interoperability between systems, global standards and not leading with FOMO.

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Repeat after me: Your AI agent is not a worker

Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:10:46 +0000

Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano says some companies and leaders are anthropomorphising AI agents, calling them “AI workers” or “digital workers”. As leaders in people and culture, Blanche-Sarellano argues we should push back on this: loudly and urgently.

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Neural Notes: The fall of gender equity programs and what it means for tech and AI

Tegan Jones — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:03:06 +0000

In this issue: the end of Boosting Female Founders, Women Who Code and Girls in Tech and the threat this poses to the tech and AI sectors.

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AI compliance startup Graceview raises $1.5 million for global expansion

Tegan Jones — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 01:49:12 +0000

Graceview has landed $1.5 million for its AI compliance platform and has its eyes set on expanding across Europe and Asia.

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Neural Notes: How AI is transforming the business of sport

Tegan Jones — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:36:49 +0000

In this edition of Neural Notes, Tegan Jones is gratuitously capitalising on the Olympics by taking a look at how AI is being used on the commercial side of sports.

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Canva snaps up Leonardo.AI in blockbuster acquisition

Tegan Jones — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:30:26 +0000

Canva has revealed plans to acquire hotshot Australian AI startup, Leonardo.Ai in a bid to strengthen its suite of visual AI tools.

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Neural Notes: ACCC probes LLM market, Meta’s new Llama, and KFC’s drive-through experiment

David Adams — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:29:40 +0000

In this edition: Australia's competition watchdog reveals a new focus on large langage models (LLMs); Meta touts its "most capable" models yet; and KFC causes a clucking flurry at the drive-through.

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Businesses can unlock the potential of AI with upskilling and strategic hiring

Dr Pete Stanski — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:01:03 +0000

As organisations grapple to wrap their heads around AI and figure out the best use-case scenarios for their business, they’re missing a crucial foundational step: bringing their people on the journey.

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Paris Olympics 2024 has an ‘AI agenda’. Here’s what it means for the future of sport

Tom Hartley — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:05:33 +0000

The 2024 Summer Olympics, kicking off in Paris on July 26, will be the first instalment of the quadrennial sports fest since the International Olympic Committee unveiled its Olympic AI Agenda.

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