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AI looms large ahead of Xi, Trump summit

The US AI debate remains dominated by fears that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta cannot slow innovation without risking China pulling ahead.

·freemalaysiatoday.com

Artificial intelligence will be a focal point as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week. While both nations are vying for dominance in AI, they remain far apart in their approaches and have not reached any concrete agreements. The United States and China are the two leading powers in the AI race, and experts describe the technology's future as a contest between one superpower's AI and the other's.

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Visual-Pill-ID: Building an AI Pharmacist with GPT-4o and SAM 💊

Ever stared at a handful of loose pills and wondered, "Wait, was the blue one for my allergies or my blood pressure?" 😅 You're not alone. Medication errors are a massive global health challenge.

  • Visual-Pill-ID system uses GPT-4o and SAM to identify pills from photos
  • Segment-then-Analyze architecture processes pills via segmentation and OCR
  • Production-ready system requires HIPAA-compliant data handling for safety

·dev.to

Tool-Call Injection in LLM Agents: Why Your MCP Server Is the New Attack Surface

Tool-Call Injection in LLM Agents: Why Your MCP Server Is the New Attack Surface An LLM agent that can read email, browse the web and run shell commands is useful precisely because it acts on…

  • Tool-call injection in LLM agents exposes MCP server as new attack surface
  • Untrusted tool inputs can include malicious instructions for agents
  • Architectural controls needed to mitigate risk of compromised agents

·dev.to

BackOps Raises $42M to Scale AI Supply Chain Automation

BackOps Raises $42M Series B For AI Resolution BackOps has raised $42M in Series B funding to expand its AI resolution platform. Insight Partners led the round. Existing investors Theory The post BackOps Raises $42M to Scale AI Supply Chain Automation appeared first on Ventureburn .

·ventureburn.com

Veridion Raises $20M to Expand AI-Powered Business Intelligence

Veridion Raises $20M Series A For Business Intelligence Veridion has raised $20M to expand its AI-powered business intelligence platform. The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with existing investors also The post Veridion Raises $20M to Expand AI-Powered Business Intelligence appeared first on Ventureburn .

·ventureburn.com

OpenAI Tests Sponsored AI Agents in ChatGPT Ads

OpenAI is testing business-sponsored artificial intelligence agents that will have conversations with people who click on an ad in ChatGPT, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 16) blog post. These Sponsored Agents are being tested with select advertisers in the United States, and their conversations will be separate from the original…

·pymnts.com

ChatGPT at university: Study maps why students stick with AI for learning

What factors influence students' decisions about whether they will continue to use ChatGPT for learning in the future? This was the question addressed by a new study from ELTE's Faculty of Informatics, which used an interpretable machine learning framework to identify the factors that most strongly influence the use of generative…

·phys.org

House votes to curb AI data center costs

The House passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act on Wednesday, marking Congress' most significant step yet to shield consumers from the soaring infrastructure costs of the AI boom .

·axios.com

Bessent Says US May Discuss AI Risks With China

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios reporters that the United States is willing to discuss artificial intelligence risks with China, the reporters said Wednesday (Sept. 16). “The U.S. is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks this weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells [Maria Curi] and me,” Axios…

·pymnts.com·3 outlets·2 countries

Should we be skeptical about the AI panic?

Is AI going to kill us all? In Silicon Valley, it’s not such a novel question. But after Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon quit his job last week and posted on X that AI “could kill us all by the end of…

·vox.com

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