ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of October 18
ODSC AI Weekly Recape Newsletter: Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI for this AI Weekly Recap. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share the most impactful AI news & developments, bringing the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community. Subscribe to get this as a newsletter sent to your inbox every Friday!
Open Data Science AI News Blog Recap
Amazon Invests in Nuclear Power to Sustain AI Growth (Source)
Treasury Department Leverages AI to Save Billions in Taxpayer Money (Source)
EU AI Act Checker Uncovers Big Tech’s Compliance Challenges (Source)
How Generative AI is Revolutionizing Medical Education at Harvard (Source)
Google Embraces Nuclear Energy to Power AI Data Centers (Source)
Taiwan Semiconductor Anticipates $23B in Q3 Revenue Amid AI Surge (Source)
AI News Highlights
Nvidia hits record high as chip stocks rally on TSMC’s rosy AI-powered outlook
New Gmail Security Alert For 2.5 Billion Users As AI Hack Confirmed
Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta
NMSU Global Campus launches AI microlearning course for beginners
AI Explained: AI Agents Are Quietly Taking Over Everyday Tasks
Can you spot the AI impostor? The swift rise of AI celebrity endorsements
After selling Drift, ex-HubSpot exec launches AI for customer success managers
Parents sue school in Massachusetts after son punished for using AI on paper
The deal reopening Three Mile Island to power AI
Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’
Mozilla’s research: Unlocking AI for everyone, not just Big Tech
Trending New Open Source Projects
chartdb is a free and open-source database diagrams editor, that visualizes and designs your DB with a single query.
Instant is a modern Firebase. We make you productive by giving your front end a real-time database.
speech-to-speech is focused on speech-to-speech transformation using various AI models and techniques.
bolt.new allows users to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications.
next-saaas-starter let users get started quickly with Next.js, Postgres, Stripe, and shadcn/ui.
New Trending Research From Around The Globe
AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation — Paper
TopoFR: A Closer Look at Topology Alignment on Face Recognition — Paper
MuseTalk: Real-Time High-Quality Lip Synchronization with Latent Space Inpainting — Paper
Liger Kernel: Efficient Triton Kernels for LLM Training — Paper
Deep Compression Autoencoder for Efficient High-Resolution Diffusion Models — Paper
When Does Perceptual Alignment Benefit Vision Representations? — Paper
Depth Any Video with Scalable Synthetic Data — Paper
LoLCATs: On Low-Rank Linearizing of Large Language Models — Paper
Start-Up Funding News
California-based Lightmatter, a changer of chip architecture, powering faster, energy-efficient computing with photonic processors for sustainable AI advancement, raised $400M in Series D
San Francisco-based Decagon, creator of generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans raised $65M in Series B
San Francisco-based Galileo, provides Evaluation Intelligence for AI developers to ship trustworthy AI apps fast, raised $45M in Series B
San Francisco-based Liner, Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort, raised $29M in Series B
Missouri-based Capacity, an AI-powered helpdesk that automates support for customers and employees, raised $26M in Series D
Top AI Videos
Artificial intelligence used to track sea turtles by scanning their faces | ABC News
What Prometheus WARNS Us About Artificial Intelligence 🤖 Stephen Fry
Google goes nuclear to power its artificial intelligence ambitions
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