Bloomberg
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen venture capitalist David Sacks of Craft Ventures LLC to serve as his AI and crypto czar, a newly created position. “David will guide policy for the Administration in Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness," Trump said Thursday in a post on his Truth Social network. Trump said Sacks also would lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology.
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Bloomberg (12/05/24) Stephanie Lai; Hadriana Lowenkron; Sarah McBride
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UPI
The European Commission on Wednesday ordered TikTok to preserve data on the Romanian election and for upcoming EU elections, amid suspicion of Russian interference. The order requires TikTok to "preserve internal documents and information regarding the design and functioning of the app's recommender systems, as well as the way it addresses the risk of intentional manipulation through coordinated inauthentic use of the service."
From "EU Orders TikTok to Preserve Romanian Election Data"
UPI (12/05/24) Doug Cunningham
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Canada plans to invest C$2 billion (U.S.$1.42 billion) to bolster its domestic AI computing capabilities by funding the development of new datacenters and computing infrastructure. With its Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, Canada becomes the latest nation to push for sovereign AI investments, which emphasize home-grown models trained in domestic datacenters.
From "Canada Commits $1.4B to Sovereign Computing Infrastructure"
The Register (U.K.) (12/05/24) Tobias Mann
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The Guardian (U.K.)
Google DeepMind's AI program GenCast performs up to 20% better than the ENS forecasts of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), widely regarded as the world leader. In a model-to-model comparison, the AI program churned out more accurate forecasts than ENS on day-to-day weather and extreme events up to 15 days in advance, and was better at predicting the paths of destructive hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, including where they would make landfall.
From "Google DeepMind Predicts Weather More Accurately Than Leading System"
The Guardian (U.K.) (12/04/24) Ian Sample
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Lancaster University (U.K.)
A new coding tool developed by researchers at the U.K.'s Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications and Microsoft makes it easier for children to program the popular educational micro-computer BBC micro:bit. The MicroCode tool is an on-screen visual programming language that enables users to create simple programs to run on the micro:bit V2, making use of the device’s basic functions and sensors.
From "Making micro:bit Programming Portable"
Lancaster University (U.K.) (12/04/24)
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Reuters
Meta announced plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI datacenter in Louisiana that would be the tech company's largest datacenter in the world. The announcement was made a day after Meta said it was seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its AI and environment goals, adding that it wanted to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new U.S. nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s.
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Reuters (12/04/24) Seher Dareen
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