Hollywood Writers Guild Reaches 'Tentative' Agreement to Address AI and Compensation Issues


SpaceX AI team announces a 3-day livestream from Sept 15-17, using only Grok Bot and a blank sheet to ideate, build a business plan, define product features, and drive engineering, turning abstract concepts into a runnable business—targeting AI deployment pain points.....
Rene Haas, CEO of Arm, stated in a BBC interview that the most disruptive application of AI is in healthcare, with the potential to help humanity conquer cancer within this generation's lifetime and shorten drug development time. However, he emphasized that the industry must first address the issue of insufficient chip capacity to provide sufficient computing power for AI.
According to reports, Anthropic has decided to abandon the acquisition of AI startup Decart. The two parties had been negotiating a deal worth around $6 billion, but Anthropic withdrew after completing due diligence. The company may seek other collaborations in the future. Anthropic is increasing its investment in computing power to develop new products, while Decart's software can improve chip utilization efficiency and reduce the cost of AI training operations, which may have been the motivation for the acquisition, but the deal ultimately did not go through.
WeChat AI open-sourced WeMM-Embedding, a multimodal embedding model in 2B, 4B, and 9B versions. It supports text, images, video, visual documents, and arbitrary mixed multimodal inputs. Its multimodal isomorphic core enables deep understanding of text and visual information, improving cross-modal retrieval.....
WeChat AI open-sourced multimodal embedding model WeMM-Embedding on Sept 4, with 2B, 4B, 9B versions, supporting interleaved text, image, video, visual document inputs, enabling comparison and retrieval in unified semantic space, deployed in Moments search and Channels recommendation.....