Candy Giant Mars Partners with Microsoft to Establish an AI Lab at U.S. Headquarters

California Senator Jerry McNerney introduced the "No Robo Bosses Act" on Thursday. This bill, Senate Bill 7, seeks to ensure human oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making in the workplace, making it a first-of-its-kind proposal nationwide. The bill would prohibit California employers from solely relying on AI or automated decision systems (ADS) for hiring, promotion, discipline, or termination.
In a recent podcast, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that AI models are increasingly becoming standardized and commoditized as language models mature. He noted this shift is driving a strategic change in enterprise AI development, moving the focus from model research to system integration and product development. Nadella emphasized that models alone are insufficient; companies need to focus on complete system architecture and successful product creation. He believes the current AI industry is experiencing a "wave-like activity" since November 2022.
On March 6th, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) announced the open-sourcing of its multimodal vector model, BGE-VL. This achievement marks a significant breakthrough in the field of multimodal retrieval. The BGE-VL model achieves state-of-the-art results on various multimodal retrieval tasks, including image-text retrieval and compositional image retrieval, significantly improving the performance of multimodal retrieval.