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📰 The latest AI News stories (as a 2 min read) 

Wildfire detection startup Pano AI extends its $20M Series A with another $17M

• Pano AI is able to detect fires and issue early warnings, which can be critical in saving lives.

• The company's system uses high-definition remote-controllable cameras - mounted onto masts provided by T-Mobile - which are monitored with an AI.

• The AI system provides highly accurate location data of any detected fire, allowing for more efficient response times for emergency services.

• Recently Pano AI closed a Series A extension, led by Valor Equity Partners, and added strategic investors such as T-Mobile Ventures and Salesforce.

• The company sells its software licenses to customers such as power utilities, landowners and government fire agencies, charging an average of $50,000 per customer station per year

• Currently the company employs 45 people and is monitoring 6 million acres of land across the US and Australia.

Two new AI-based weather-forecasting systems challenging the status quo

• Pangu-Weather, developed by a team of engineers at Huawei Cloud in China, predicts future temperatures, wind speed and air pressure a week in advance.

• NowcastNet, created by engineers from Tsinghua University with colleagues from the China Meteorological Administration and the University of California Berkeley, forecasts precipitation amounts over six hours.

• Both systems are as accurate as existing numerical models but provide results much faster.

• AI-based weather-forecasting is possibly becoming the standard approach.

Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI

• Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, has launched his artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI.

• The team comprises engineers from major U.S. tech companies, with the aim to build an alternative to ChatGPT and create a "maximally curious" AI in order to reduce the risks of civilizational destruction posed by AI.

• Musk predicted that superintelligence will arrive in five or six years.

• OpenAI's Dan Hendrycks advises the xAI team on AI safety, while Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI.

• An upcoming Twitter Spaces event on July 14 will provide more information about xAI's plans.

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Enjoy your Day! ... Phil