The Batch

Oct 16, 2024

6 Posts

Graph showing global warming with and without aerosol injection.
Oct 16, 2024

To Fight Climate Change, It's Time to Consider Geoengineering: Hurricanes Helene and Milton took hundreds of lives, not to mention other disasters driven by climate change. Stratospheric aerosol injection could save countless lives.

To Fight Climate Change, It's Time to Consider Geoengineering
Graph showing global warming with and without aerosol injection.
Oct 16, 2024

Bogus Apps, AI Boomtown, Better Embeddings, 2024 Highlights

The Batch AI News and Insights: It’s high time to take geoengineering more seriously as a potential tool to mitigate climate change.
Diagram of a transformer model using Jina embeddings and LoRA adapters, tailored for tasks like sentiment classification.
Oct 16, 2024

Better Text Embeddings: Jina AI launches jina-embeddings-v3, a text embedding model with task-specific adapters

Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.
LLM leaderboard with Chinese models rising in ranks.
Oct 16, 2024

A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs

A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution. 
Several legal documents from the Federal Trade Commission are spread out on a wooden surface.
Oct 16, 2024

U.S. Cracks Down on AI Apps That Overpromise, Underdeliver: U.S. Federal Trade Commission launches Operation AI Comply to tackle deceptive business practices

The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.
Design layout of Sedenak Data Centre Park, Malaysia.
Oct 16, 2024

Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.

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