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Nvidia falters, an OpenAI exit, and AI Pin returns: AI news roundup

Plus, Microsoft and Palantir will sell AI software to U.S. defense and intelligence departments

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In mid-June, chipmaking darling Nvidia was at its peak, trading at record-highs and briefly surpassing Apple and Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable public company. Since then, Nvidia’s market value has tumbled $900 billion.

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Earlier this week, Nvidia’s stock fell after a report that shipments of its highly-anticipated Blackwell AI platform are delayed due to design flaws.

Read about it and more in the AI news roundup.

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Earlier this year, Nvidia became the first chipmaker to reach a $2 trillion market cap, shortly joined the $3 trillion market cap club, and then surpassed both Apple and Microsoft to become the most valuable public company in the world. Since then, its value has tumbled $900 billion.

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U.S. national security missions will soon get a boost from cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools from Microsoft and Palantir.

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The Humane AI Pin, a wearable device that features a camera and a projector and can be worn as a chest pin or an accessory, exhibited at the SK Telecom pavilion during the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on April 2, 2024.
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Some tech leaders see virtual assistants as the next phase of generative artificial intelligence — but one startup working on the idea is having a hard time selling it.

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Nvidia might be a dominant force in the market for artificial intelligence chips, but it’s struggling to meet soaring demand, and reportedly turning to Samsung to supply a key part of its chipset.

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Redditors uncovered the set of prompts Apple is using to instruct its suite of AI tools, Apple Intelligence.

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The generative artificial intelligence boom is driving new business and stock performance for a major telecommunications company.

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The Biden administration has now invested in all five of the world’s major chipmakers with its latest Chips and Science Act funding recipient.

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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is one of the key figures behind artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT’s success.
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is one of the key figures behind artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT’s success.
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Less than a day after one OpenAI co-founder filed a lawsuit against the startup and key executives, its president announced a months-long sabbatical and co-founder John Schulman revealed he would be joining rival artificial intelligence firm Anthropic.

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Ratings and analytics company S&P Global is partnering with consulting firm Accenture to train its staff to use generative artificial intelligence.

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Elon Musk is the chief technical officer and owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Elon Musk is the chief technical officer and owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Five of the U.S.’s top election officials on Monday asked X owner and chief technical officer Elon Musk to ensure his artificial intelligence chatbot stuck to the facts after it spread false information regarding Vice President Kamala Harris.

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AI chipmaking startup Groq — not to be confused with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, spelled Grok — announced Monday that it’s secured another $640 million from BlackRock, Cisco, and other investors.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents the new AI chip Blackwell at the company’s own developer conference in March.
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Nvidia shares fell sharply in pre-market trading — about 13% — and remained down by around 8% after the market opened on Monday. 

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