Weekly roundup: The top AI stories you might have missed this week: - Mayo Clinic researchers developed an AI algorithm that uses Apple Watch electrocardiogram data to detect a weak heart pump in patients.
- Meta Platforms announced that it's giving researchers free access to a 175-billion-parameter language model, part of a broader effort to "democratize" access to so-called large-language models that generate and respond to text.
- The U.S. remains ahead of adversaries in AI but could risk losing ground to China, AI experts from Google, Microsoft, and Georgetown University told lawmakers during a Senate subcommittee hearing this week.
- Toyota announced a deal to install Invisible AI's computer vision tech at factories to analyze manufacturing operations and detect technical problems in real-time.
- The FDA gave commercial clearance for VideaHealth's AI-enabled system, which reviews dental X-rays to diagnose cavities.
- Google fired one of its AI researchers, Satrajit Chatterjee, after he disputed parts of a company research paper regarding the use of AI to design computer chip parts. One of the paper's authors accused Chatterjee of harassment, though Chatterjee's lawyer maintained he was trying to uphold "scientific integrity."
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Facebook is accused of developing an algorithm that intentionally blocked non-news pages — including pages for healthcare and emergency services — in Australia last year, the WSJ reports. Whistleblowers allege it was a negotiating tactic to stop a law that would have forced the platform and others to pay news publishers when sharing their content. More: - In documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, whistleblowers claim Facebook sought to place pressure on Australian lawmakers who would vote on the law, which the company heavily opposed.
- As a result, Facebook allegedly assembled a team of employees to develop a "crude" algorithm to identify pages likely to affect the most publishers.
- The algorithm was created to broadly label any page that shared 60% or more of news content as a publisher. Facebook then blocked those pages in Australia.
- The process sidestepped Facebook's database of existing news publishers and also forced the takedown of public service sites, such as government and health services, right as the country began a mass COVID-19 vaccination program, according to documents.
Zoom-out: - Documents also show that multiple Facebook employees tried to raise alarms about the impact of the algorithm and offer possible solutions, but were met with minimal or delayed responses from leaders of the team in charge of the process.
- The Australian Parliament later negotiated with the company and passed an updated bill that addressed its complaints.
- Facebook maintains that blocking Australian government pages was a "technical error" that it later fixed.
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- He told Forbes, "The responsible and strategic thing to say is, ‘what if this is the new normal?’"
- The labor shortage has more restaurants and fast-food joints turning to robotics:
- Chipotle is testing an AI-powered chipmaking robot at its innovation hub in Irvine, California. Miso Robotics helped design the kitchen assistant, which autonomously cooks and seasons the chain's tortilla chips.
- Similarly, Jack in the Box recently announced that it will pilot Miso Robotics' AI-powered frying and drink-prepping robots at a San Diego restaurant.
- California Pizza Kitchen has been testing the Matradee food runner robot from Richtech, which said it is signing large chains for pilots every week.
- Chili's recently expanded its partnership with Bear Robotics to bring Rita the Robot to 51 more locations across eight states.
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 Sony AI Director Peter Wurman was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work in AI and robotics for warehouse order fulfillment. In the early 2000s, Wurman was among the developers at Kiva Systems to create a system of mobile robots and control software for materials handling at warehouses. More: - Wurman was inducted along with fellow Kiva Systems creators Raffaello D’Andrea and Mick Mountz.
- Kiva Systems is considered an early pioneer of the logistics robotics market.
- As CTO of Kiva, Wurman led the system architecture and decision-making algorithms that coordinated the robotic fleet's motion and distributed tasks.
- Kiva was later acquired by Amazon for $775M in 2012 and renamed Amazon Robotics.
- More recently, Wurman was the project lead on Sony AI's GT Sophy AI program, which recently beat top human players in the racing simulation game Gran Turismo Sport.
- He co-authored the accompanying research paper, "Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning," recently published in the journal Nature.
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Kinetix, an AI-assisted 3D animation startup, announced $11M in seed funding to expand its operations and accelerate growth. The Paris-based company developed a no-code platform for content creators to transform video clips into 3D animated avatars. More: - The 3D animations can then be shared and integrated into virtual worlds in the metaverse, according to the company.
- The idea is to support new user-generated content-based experiences and games on Web2 and Web3 for 3D virtual worlds.
- The round, led by Top Harvest Capital founder Adam Ghobarah, included participation from The Sandbox & Zepeto, Sparkle Ventures, and others.
- Kinetix has raised $12.5M to date.
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- Japanese gaming giant Square Enix will sell three of its studios to the Embracer Group, a Swedish holding company, in order to expand and launch new businesses through its investments in AI and other areas.
- Audio streaming platform SoundCloud acquired Musiio, an AI music analysis platform that can help identify trends and hit songs, for an undisclosed sum.
- Visier, a workforce analytics startup, purchased the technology of Yva.ai, a AI-powered real-time employee experience SaaS platform.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and analyst at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily tech news. Since starting work at Inside, she has covered various topics including virtual reality, drones, and e-commerce. Prior to that she was a public policy and investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, where she won a Pulitzer Prize nomination and First Amendment Award for reporting on the rising costs of pensions. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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