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The Human Side of AI: Inside India's Data Annotation Workforce

A New York Times investigation has illuminated a growing but precarious employment trend in India: the rise of human workers whose task is to label, categorize, and annotate the vast amounts of data that train artificial intelligence systems. The Human Infrastructure Behind AI The report focuses on workers in regions

Biological AI Models: Treating Life's Molecular Data as a Second Language

The field of biological AI is evolving rapidly as researchers develop models that treat molecular data as a language to be deciphered. Just as large language models learn patterns in text, biological AI models are trained on vast datasets of DNA sequences, protein structures, and RNA molecules to identify functional

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SK hynix Charts Co-Packaged Optics Roadmap as AI Hardware Competition Shifts to System-Level Design

Memory manufacturer SK hynix has published a technology roadmap for co-packaged optics (CPO) in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Electronics, highlighting what the company sees as the next frontier in AI hardware development. Co-packaged optics involves integrating optical connections directly into the same package as processors and memory, rather than routing

Stripe Acquires OpenRouter to Expand AI Model Routing Capabilities

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model routing and marketplace platform, according to multiple reports. The acquisition marks another major step by the payments giant to deepen its involvement in the artificial intelligence sector. OpenRouter operates as a platform that helps developers route requests across multiple AI models,

AI Training Data, Courtroom AI, and Meta Smart Glasses: This Week's Tech Headlines

This week's tech news brings together three distinct but related developments in the AI landscape. Amazon's Book Acquisition Practices Reports indicate that Amazon has been acquiring books—including rare and out-of-print titles—to use as training data for its AI systems. The practice has raised concerns

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OpenAI Presses Pause on Development Speed, Prioritizing Safety Over Race

OpenAI has announced a notable shift in its development strategy, opting to slow the pace of certain AI research initiatives to focus on security and safeguards. The company confirmed it implemented a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models intended for deployment, along with an ongoing delay

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ByteDance and Tencent Reportedly Secure 10,000 NVIDIA H200 Chips Each

ByteDance and Tencent have reportedly secured allocations of 10,000 NVIDIA H200 chips each, as the Financial Times first reported. The H200 represents NVIDIA's most advanced GPU designed specifically for training large AI models, and this development could signal a broader trend among Chinese technology firms seeking access