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Aug 07, 2024

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Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders: Google acquires Character.AI talent and tech in strategic move
Aug 07, 2024

Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders: Google acquires Character.AI talent and tech in strategic move

Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover. 
Learning to Code is Easier Than Ever!: Our “AI Python for Beginners” courses use an AI coding assistant to teach programming in a way that’s aligned with where the field is going rather than where it has been.
Aug 07, 2024

Learning to Code is Easier Than Ever!: Our “AI Python for Beginners” courses use an AI coding assistant to teach programming in a way that’s aligned with where the field is going rather than where it has been.

I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails
Aug 07, 2024

Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails

The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Aug 07, 2024

Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures

Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Ukraine Develops Aquatic Drones: Ukraine’s naval drones shift balance in Black Sea war against Russia
Aug 07, 2024

Ukraine Develops Aquatic Drones: Ukraine’s naval drones shift balance in Black Sea war against Russia

Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.
AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers
Aug 07, 2024

AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers

Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.

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