Google unveils WAXAL, a speech dataset under an open license for 21 African languages to drive inclusive tech development; African institutions own the dataset
A new 21-language dataset gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that uses optical character recognition to turn complex PDF documents into Markdown files ready for LLM training
It's available via their API, or it's “available to self-host on a selective basis” … Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Mistral launches OCR tool for fast document processing Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Mist...
Researchers linked to China's military used Llama 2 to develop an AI model for potential military use; Meta says use of “outdated” Llama 2 would be “irrelevant”
Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model …
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods
DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software … Glyn Moody / @glynmoody@mastodon.social : AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules - https:/...
Anti-plagiarism service Turnitin, used by 10K+ institutions, launches a tool to detect AI-generated text in academia, claiming 98% confidence vs. OpenAI's 26%
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Ethereum activates its long-awaited Merge upgrade, in development since 2020, and transactions are now being processed under proof of stake
First off, thank you for reading and as always, nothing you read or hear of my content is ever financial advice. Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Ethereum Switches to Proof-of-Stake, Will Reduce Global En...
Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments
Google today is home to two divisions that have their own CEOs: Cloud and YouTube. “Google Public Sector” was announced today as a …
Spotify's Findaway acquisition will turn it into an audiobook producer, distributor, and retailer, while making it an all-encompassing audio app
Ashley Carman / The Verge : Tweets: @evan_greer , @seh , and @adrs See also Mediagazer Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : i spend a lot of time thinking about the way that copyright maximalism pushed...
The Markup announces The Citizen Browser Project, an initiative with The NYT to analyze how the algorithms of Facebook and YouTube serve content to users
The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world's most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society …
Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account
now. https://twitter.com/... @voxdotcom : It's more clear than ever that the Google website Trump described last week is not exactly what the American public will use to find coronavirus testing, @ada...