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AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg : AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist — Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining an artificial intelligence startup founded … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/SwiZx3L via IFTTT

Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Kate Rooney / CNBC : Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks — Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hZz8AUm via IFTTT

Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg : Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer — Manus, an artificial intelligence startup founded in China, is expanding its AI agent offerings, aiming to gain further ground in one of the tech industry's hottest areas. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2w4KTEx via IFTTT

Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic's systems from Techmeme https://ift.tt/M7SEhTP via IFTTT

How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks (New York Times)

New York Times : How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks — Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, gathered senior officials for an exclusive meeting at a 19th-century palace outside Brussels this month. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/T3JVjWK via IFTTT

Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more — The software giant's AI chief also thinks the government should help “drive” the process of evaluating models. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/u84bk2H via IFTTT