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Story Protocol rebrands as DATA Foundation to focus on AI data
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Palo Alto-based blockchain startup Story Protocol has rebranded as DATA Foundation and pivoted its operations to building infrastructure for verifying AI training data. The move follows $140 million in funding led by a16z crypto.
SUSE and Openchip have formed a partnership to create a sovereign RISC-V technology stack designed for Europe.
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The Linux Foundation announced the launch of Akrites on June 25 to coordinate responses to vulnerabilities in critical open source software. The initiative responds to advances in AI that can identify software flaws in minutes. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat and NVIDIA.
Asian markets surged on June 25 after Micron Technology projected robust future demand during its fiscal third quarter earnings call. The chipmaker's shares rose sharply, boosting confidence in the AI trade. Falling oil prices added to the positive sentiment across regional bourses.
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EA president of enterprise development Laura Miele stated that generative AI has led to a real rise of creativity at the company's studios by removing friction from development pipelines.
Google DeepMind is partnering with independent film studio A24 in a multiyear deal worth $75 million to develop new AI tools for movie production. The investment will support A24's Labs team in creating assistive technologies, starting with AI-generated storyboards. The tools will be available to A24 filmmakers and contribute to Google's broader AI ecosystem.
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Workers paid to train advanced AI models are increasingly relying on chatbots like ChatGPT to generate the required conversations and tests. This shortcut, described as widespread by multiple sources, risks degrading the quality of future models through recursive training on synthetic data.
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