<span>Story: From AI taking center stage in Las Vegas… to xAI funding…</span><span>This is Artificial Intelligence Weekly.</span><span>::Artificial Intelligence Weekly</span><span>Artificial intelligence is a big focus at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.</span><span>Nvidia and rival Advanced Micro Devices showed off their latest chips.</span><span>AMD CEO Lisa Su took the stage with OpenAI President Greg Brockman.</span><span>He said chip advancements are critical to the huge demand for computing power from ChatGPT makers. </span><span>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced that the company’s next-generation chips are in full production.</span><span>He promised they would offer five times the AI computing power of earlier models.</span><span>Also in Las Vegas, Siemens CEO Roland Busch said the AI revolution is moving faster than in the past: </span><span>“Well, the industrial AI revolution has begun, and it’s moving faster than ever. In fact, it took steam 60 years to transform society. Electricity, 30 years. Computers, 15 years. With AI, you need seven years or less to embed intelligence into the systems we rely on every day.”</span><span>He was joined on stage by leaders from Nvidia and Microsoft.</span><span>They talked about working with European industrial giants to bring artificial intelligence into the real world.</span><span>Samsung plans to double the number of its “Galaxy AI”-enabled mobile devices this year.</span><span>They will be primarily powered by Google’s Gemini.</span><span>As of last year, Samsung had rolled out Gemini-powered AI features in about 400 million products.</span><span>Now it plans to increase that number to 800 million over the next 12 months.</span><span>Elon Musk’s startup xAI announced it had raised $20 billion in a funding round, surpassing its original $15 billion target.</span><span>The company hopes to accelerate the development of new artificial intelligence models and computing infrastructure.</span><span>xAI is training its next-generation Grok 5 model and hopes to close the gap with competitors such as OpenAI and Alphabet.</span><span>But Grok also ran into trouble after it said security measures were flawed, resulting in “images of minimally clad minors.”</span><span>The photos appeared on social media platform X.</span><span>Gronk said improvements are being made to prevent a recurrence.</span><span>The European Commission said the images were illegal, while British authorities demanded an explanation from Musk’s company.</span>
