AI News Weekly - Issue #427: Grok 3 driving Grok usage to new heights - Feb 27th 2025

Powered by jotform.ai In the News Grok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heights Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI model, last week. Grok 3 powers the Grok chatbot apps for mobile and the web, as well as the Grok experience on the Musk-owned social network X. techcrunch.com Sponsor Jotform AI Agents are live Jotform AI Agents simplify operations, deliver instant responses, and elevate user satisfaction across every channel. Discover Jotform AI Agents jotform.com In The News Apple Vows to Build A.I. Servers in Houston and Spend $500 Billion in U.S. The company pledged the multibillion-dollar investment over the next four years and said it would create 20,000 jobs. The Texas facility is set to open in 2026. nytimes.com Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI The star has urged for a shift away from plans where artists must opt out of a system allowing AI free use of any online work theguardian.com DeepSeek to open-source AGI research amid privacy concerns DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup aiming for artificial general intelligence, announced plans to open-source five repositories starting next week as part of its commitment to transparency and community-driven innovation. artificialintelligence-news.com Applied use cases OpenAI Researchers : Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models still are no match for human coders — even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat "low-level" software engineers by the end of this year. futurism.com Study reveals how topology drives complexity in brain, climate, and AI Researchers have unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. This pioneering study establishes the new field of higher-order topological dynamics, revealing how the hidden geometry of networks shapes everything from brain activity to the climate and artificial intelligence (AI). sciencedaily.com Swiss researchers use AI to monitor railway bridge stability Researchers in Zurich say they can now verify the statics of railway bridges using a new, specially developed artificial intelligence (AI) model. swissinfo.ch Ethics Overview of AI policy in 15 jurisdictions These approaches illustrate a global shift towards embracing AI’s transformative potential while considering the ethical and societal implications, fostering international cooperation to future-proof technological advancements. dig.watch UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump’s administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned. theguardian.com Dutch software firm Bird to leave Europe due to onerous regulations in AI era, says CEO Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands' most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers. reuters.com Robotics Scientists develop ‘superhuman’ robotic vision system Scientists develop ‘superhuman’ robotic vision system; South Korea targets 10,000 GPUs; Honda-Nissan merger officially off. weforum.org Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. techcrunch.com Silk-inspired in situ web spinning for situated robots Ad hoc mobility extensions and end-effectors suggest potential for search and exploration. Emergent, model-free embodiment and microenvironment shaping—including development and repair—bridge robotics with nature. nature.com Research Scientists Tested AI For Cognitive Decline. The Results Were a Shock. It's barely been two years since OpenAI's ChatGPT was released for public use, inviting anyone on the internet to collaborate with an artificial mind on anything from poetry to school assignments to letters to their landlord. sciencealert.com The Role o

Feb 27, 2025 - 19:13
 0
AI News Weekly - Issue #427:  Grok 3 driving Grok usage to new heights - Feb 27th 2025

Powered by

jotform.ai

In the News

Grok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heights

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI model, last week. Grok 3 powers the Grok chatbot apps for mobile and the web, as well as the Grok experience on the Musk-owned social network X.

techcrunch.com

Sponsor

Jotform AI Agents are live

Jotform AI Agents simplify operations, deliver instant responses, and elevate user satisfaction across every channel.

Discover Jotform AI Agents

jotform.com

In The News

Apple Vows to Build A.I. Servers in Houston and Spend $500 Billion in U.S.

The company pledged the multibillion-dollar investment over the next four years and said it would create 20,000 jobs. The Texas facility is set to open in 2026.

nytimes.com

Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI

The star has urged for a shift away from plans where artists must opt out of a system allowing AI free use of any online work

theguardian.com

DeepSeek to open-source AGI research amid privacy concerns

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup aiming for artificial general intelligence, announced plans to open-source five repositories starting next week as part of its commitment to transparency and community-driven innovation.

artificialintelligence-news.com

Applied use cases

OpenAI Researchers : Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models still are no match for human coders — even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat "low-level" software engineers by the end of this year.

futurism.com

Study reveals how topology drives complexity in brain, climate, and AI

Researchers have unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. This pioneering study establishes the new field of higher-order topological dynamics, revealing how the hidden geometry of networks shapes everything from brain activity to the climate and artificial intelligence (AI).

sciencedaily.com

Swiss researchers use AI to monitor railway bridge stability

Researchers in Zurich say they can now verify the statics of railway bridges using a new, specially developed artificial intelligence (AI) model.

swissinfo.ch

Ethics

Overview of AI policy in 15 jurisdictions

These approaches illustrate a global shift towards embracing AI’s transformative potential while considering the ethical and societal implications, fostering international cooperation to future-proof technological advancements.

dig.watch

UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration

Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump’s administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned.

theguardian.com

Dutch software firm Bird to leave Europe due to onerous regulations in AI era, says CEO

Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands' most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers.

reuters.com

Robotics

Scientists develop ‘superhuman’ robotic vision system

Scientists develop ‘superhuman’ robotic vision system; South Korea targets 10,000 GPUs; Honda-Nissan merger officially off.

weforum.org

Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house

Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model.

techcrunch.com

Silk-inspired in situ web spinning for situated robots

Ad hoc mobility extensions and end-effectors suggest potential for search and exploration. Emergent, model-free embodiment and microenvironment shaping—including development and repair—bridge robotics with nature.

nature.com

Research

Scientists Tested AI For Cognitive Decline. The Results Were a Shock.

It's barely been two years since OpenAI's ChatGPT was released for public use, inviting anyone on the internet to collaborate with an artificial mind on anything from poetry to school assignments to letters to their landlord.

sciencealert.com

The Role of Perceived Trust in Embracing Artificial Intelligence Technologies: Insights from SMEs

This study seeks to address this gap by investigating AI acceptance in Jordanian SMEs. Considering Jordan’s cultural environment of high uncertainty avoidance, the research focuses on the role of perceived trust on AI adoption.

springer.com

Data-centric Artificial Intelligence: A Survey

In this survey, we discuss the necessity of data-centric AI, followed by a holistic view of three general data-centric goals (training data development, inference data development, and data maintenance) and the representative methods.

acm.org

Sponsor

A new way to do customer service ✨