One-Minute Daily AI News 7/19/2023

India’s second-largest software services exporter Infosys said on Monday it has signed a deal with an existing client to provide AI and automation services that will span over five years, with a target spend estimated at $2 billion.[1]
Big Tech firms Meta and Microsoft have teamed up to launch Llama 2, an open-source large language model from Meta that will feature on Microsoft’s Windows and cloud computing platform Azure.[2]
Microsoft on Tuesday said it would charge at least 53% more to access new AI features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at the windfall it hopes to reap from the technology. The company also said it would make a more secure version of its Bing search engine available immediately to businesses, aiming to address their data-protection concerns, grow their interest in AI and compete more with Google.[3]
British spies are already using artificial intelligence to hamper the supply of weapons to Russia, the head of Britain’s MI6 agency said Wednesday, predicting that Western spies will increasingly have to focus on tracking the malign use of AI by hostile states.[4]
A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC uses an Artificial Intelligence version of Donald Trump’s voice in a new television ad attacking the former president. The ad, from Never Back Down, charges Trump with attacking Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds as part of a larger pattern of disrespect he has shown to the first caucus state.[5]

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