Brilliant Labs launches Open-Source AI Smart Glasses

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📰 News: Brilliant Labs launches Open-Source AI Smart Glasses

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. Brilliant Labs introduces Frame, a $349 pair of open-source smart glasses offering "AI superpowers" like AI translations, web search, and visual analysis directly in the wearer's field of vision.

2. Nvidia is creating a new business unit to design custom chips for cloud computing and AI, targeting a market that could grow to $30Bn, aiming to maintain its dominance in the AI chip sector.

3. Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, is steering Google towards a future where traditional search may not be the primary focus, w/ the launch of Gemini, Google's most powerful AI model yet, which is designed to offer an alternative way of accessing information

4. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking up to $7 Trillion in funding for AI chips, aiming to address the global shortage and enhance AI development capabilities.

5. Google has committed 25M Euros to enhance AI skills across Europe, targeting social enterprises and nonprofits to extend the benefits of AI training.

6. NVIDIA CEO advocates for sovereign AI at World Governments Summit, urging countries to own their data and intelligence production

7. USPTO declares only humans can patent inventions, excluding AI systems from legal personhood and inventor status.

8. Large U.S. employers like Walmart, Delta Air Lines, T-Mobile, Chevron, and Starbucks are using AI tech to monitor employee communications on platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom

9. Microsoft's strategic AI investments in Azure cloud are narrowing Amazon's lead in the cloud market

10. Artists achieve a legal victory against AI art generators Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, challenging the use of their work without consent.

11. Pakistan's election season draws global attention as Imran Khan's AI-generated 'victory speech' from jail highlights the complex impact of AI on politics

💰 Top Funding News:

1. Xensam, a provider of AI-powered Software Asset Management (SAM), raised $40M in growth funding from Expedition Growth Capital.

2. Motif Analytics, a data analytics startup, raised a $5.7M Seed Round, led by Amplify Partners and Felicis, w/InvestInData angel group. 

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