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OpenAI is developing the AI-powered OpenAI Jobs Platform to connect businesses with employees, potentially rivalling LinkedIn. This service will target small businesses and local governments and aims to launch by mid-2026. OpenAI will also offer AI fluency certifications and collaborate with Walmart.
Switzerland's new open-source AI model, Apertus, offers an alternative to models like OpenAI's ChatGPT. Following EU copyright laws, it uses training data only from websites permitting scraping. The model supports 1,800 languages and is hosted on HuggingFace.
AI systems can fall into infinite loops due to their algorithmic nature and lack of real-time, dynamic interaction with their environment, unlike conscious human minds. Humans, being biologically embedded in time and entropy, inherently avoid such loops through adaptive behavior and awareness.
Charlie Wu, inspired by his apple-farming grandparents and his studies at Cornell, founded Orchard Robotics to use AI and cameras for precision fruit farming. The startup raised $22 million in Series A funding, aiming to transform crop management by collecting and analyzing high-resolution imagery.
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