Major tech companies signed an agreement on artificial intelligence safety
At a virtual global meeting hosted by the leaders of South Korea and the UK, sixteen companies acknowledged both the huge potential benefits of AI and the risks if it is misused. The companies included Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, as well as firms from China, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. Practical steps agreed upon are publishing safety frameworks, avoiding models with unmanageable risks and coordinating with regulators internationally.
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Meta launched Chameleon, a new multimodal model
Chameleon integrates text and image processing. It can answer questions about images, describe pictures accurately, write coherent and contextually relevant text and create images from text prompts.
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Microsoft announced Phi-3-vision, a small language model that brings image analysis to mobile devices
Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model that can analyze and understand images. Users can ask questions about images or charts, and the model will provide insightful answers. Phi-3-vision is currently available only as a preview version, and there are no details on when it will become generally available.
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Apple is challenging the $2 billion fine imposed by the European Commission
The Commission fined Apple in March, saying that the company abused its dominant position in the market by forbidding music streaming apps to tell users about cheaper subscription prices outside the app. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple filed a suit at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg to challenge the March decision.
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New products
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ASUS Vivobook S 15
Vivobook S 15 has a 15.6-inch OLED screen, Snapdragon X Elite processor, 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage.
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Redmi 13
The phone will have a Helio G88 or Helio G91 processor, 6GB/8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. It will come with a 108MP main camera.
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