A New AI Model That… Reads Emotions? | Bytes: Week in Review | Marketplace Tech

Описание: 👩‍💻 The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba this week released its new AI model, R1-Omni, it says can read users’ emotional state. What’s this mean for current AI competition?

🚗 Waymo announced the expansion of its self-driving services to more parts of Silicon Valley, like Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. This comes on the heels of the autonomous ride hailing company also announcing it will expand services into Austin, Texas, in partnership with Uber.

🧑‍🔬 A group of tech industry groups and advocacy groups wrote a letter to the Commerce Secretary this week, urging not to continue federal cuts in AI safety agencies and science, saying it will put the U.S. behind in global innovation.

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