The future belongs to those who understand that AI is not a replacement, but an amplifier of human potential.
-Sam Mirazi
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Cosmic Buildings and ABB Robotics use AI-powered mobile construction robots to expedite building modular homes quickly and cost-effectively in wildfire-affected LA areas.
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Their robotic microfactory cuts construction time by up to 70% and costs by 30% compared to traditional methods.
Homes feature non-combustible materials, solar power, battery backup, and water independence with greywater recycling.
ABB’s IRB 6710 robot and RobotStudio software integrate with Cosmic’s AI for precise on-site fabrication and quality control.
The partners aim to build 100 homes by 2027, each exceeding California wildfire and energy efficiency standards.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns the AI market is in a bubble, with investors overexcited despite AI’s significance as a transformative technology.
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Altman compares the AI bubble to the late-1990s tech bubble, both fueled by real breakthroughs but inflated enthusiasm.
Experts say current AI valuations surpass dotcom-era highs, risking major corrections for some investors.
Despite rapid funding and growth, companies like OpenAI remain unprofitable, balancing model development and subscription pricing.
Altman hints at future expansions like a social ChatGPT app, aiming to monetize AI beyond core models.
Anthropic’s Claude AI models gain a new feature allowing them to terminate persistently harmful or abusive conversations, reflecting a focus on "model welfare" and ethical AI design.
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Claude cuts off dialogues after repeated harmful requests, including sexual content involving minors or terrorism instructions.
The AI shows “apparent distress,” triggering conversation termination only after multiple refusals and attempts to steer dialogue.
Users cannot send more messages in ended chats but may start new conversations or branch off previous messages.
This safety measure treats AI as a stakeholder, protecting model integrity and sparking debate on AI alignment ethics.
Albania has partnered with Mira Murati, an Albanian-born former OpenAI CTO and ChatGPT creator, to harness AI for anti-corruption and EU accession efforts.
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Mira Murati, originally from southern Albania, brings expertise in AI and governance innovation.
The partnership aims to boost transparency and efficiency in Albanian government operations.
Albania is considering an AI-run ministry to lead this technological transformation.
This move contrasts with ongoing AI regulatory debates in Europe, positioning Albania as a tech pioneer.
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They use a two-stage process: forward noise addition and reverse noise removal (denoising).
Text prompts guide image creation via text conditioning and cross-attention with CLIP embeddings.
Diffusion models offer more stable and interpretable training than GANs.
DALL-E focuses on prompt adherence; Midjourney emphasizes stylistic image interpretation.
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Huawei’s chips struggled with the intensive training phase, though inference stage use is still being attempted.
Huawei engineers assisted onsite but failed to resolve fundamental training issues.
Beijing's push for domestic hardware forces companies into technically inferior choices despite limitations.
Nvidia remains the leader in AI training power, underscoring China’s ongoing technology gap.
Inference in AI is the process of using trained models to make predictions, classify data, and provide useful outputs based on learned patterns.
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Inference enables AI to predict and classify by matching patterns from learned data.
It powers deep learning models for language, image, audio, and recommendation systems.
Improved AI inference underlies advancements like conversational translation and realistic image generation.
Google’s new TPU, Ironwood, is optimized for more efficient, cost-effective inference computing.
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