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China, Chips and Archery: Inside a Mystery AI Event in the Utah Mountains
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China, Chips and Archery: Inside a Mystery AI Event in the Utah Mountains

[ad_1] While President Biden was in San Francisco finalizing an agreement between the US and China to open a dialogue on artificial intelligence, among other issues, a who's who of AI and military leaders gathered nearly 800 miles away for a secretive event in the Utah mountains. Over the course of three days last week, more than 100 AI executives and insiders, venture capitalists and government officials listened to talks about the AI arms race between the US and China, and mulled the impact of Biden's sweeping executive order on the industry. They discussed how AI could be used by bad actors and considered the next possible tectonic shifts in the industry.  The event, called the AI Security Summit, was hosted by Scale AI Inc., a startup that offers AI training and data labeling servic...
UK is in talks with Tech Giants on AI chips, Telegraph reports
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UK is in talks with Tech Giants on AI chips, Telegraph reports

[ad_1] UK government officials have held discussions with tech giants Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. about procuring equipment for national artificial intelligence research, according to the Telegraph.The government has allocated £100 million ($127 million) for AI chips, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. It said efforts may be in “advanced stages” of an order of as much as 5,000 graphics processing units from Nvidia. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to make the UK a global science and technology “superpower” by 2030. The premier is targeting a summit later this year that aims to bring together world leaders and top AI executives in an event supported by US President Joe Biden. A $5.4 billion international chip deal with Intel is off after greenlight from C...