Chipmaker Marvell Technology said on Tuesday it will buy semiconductor startup Celestial AI in a deal worth $3.25 billion and gave a bullish forecast for its next fiscal year.

The first version of AWS Nova was announced last year at the company’s annual tech conference. At the time, the company released four text-generating models and one image-generating model. This year, AWS is giving the models an upgrade and launching an accompanying service.

CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos reports from Amazon's flagship cloud conference in Las Vegas, where AWS CEO Matt Garman debuted the Trainium 3 chip, a new Nova AI model family, and long-running frontier agents to make the case that Amazon can compete at every layer of the AI stack.

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, has entered the large language model (LLM) arms race with the launch of QVAC Fabric LLM. Announced on Dec. 2, the system allows full LLM execution, LoRA training and instruction-tuning directly on laptops, desktops, consumer GPUs, and even smartphones.

AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.

This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.

A new report by the United Nations Development Program notes most of the gains from AI are likely to be reaped by wealthy nations unless steps are taken to use its power to help close gaps in access to basic needs, as well as such advanced know-how.

From chatbots and ChatGPT to stocking and pricing in stores, AI tools are increasingly being used by Target, Walmart, Evereve and more.

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Colleges are interested in AI summaries of transcripts, extracurricular activities and letters of recommendation that tell human readers the students’ story in a more digestible way, said Emily Pacheco, founder of NACAC’s special interest group for AI and admission.

Nova Forge lets Amazon’s customers train frontier models for different tasks—a potential breakthrough in making AI actually useful for businesses.