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Ex-PM Sunak joins Microsoft and AI firm as paid advisor

BBC News

Rishi Sunak has taken up senior part-time advisor roles at tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic. The former prime minister has been told he must not lobby ministers on behalf of the companies by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), an independent watchdog which oversees the activities of former government figures. Sunak - who remains the MP for Richmond and Northallerton - will donate payments for the jobs to a charity he recently founded, the watchdog said. During his premiership, Sunak made tech regulation a significant priority, setting up an AI safety summit in 2023. In letters of advice sent to Sunak by Acoba and published on Thursday, his role at Microsoft was described as providing high-level strategic perspectives on geopolitical trends.






One Token to Seg Them All: Language Instructed Reasoning Segmentation in Videos Zechen Bai 1 Tong He2 Haiyang Mei 1 Pichao Wang 2

Neural Information Processing Systems

We introduce VideoLISA, a video-based multimodal large language model designed to tackle the problem of language-instructed reasoning segmentation in videos. Leveraging the reasoning capabilities and world knowledge of large language models, and augmented by the Segment Anything Model, VideoLISA generates temporally consistent segmentation masks in videos based on language instructions.




Explicit Eigenvalue Regularization Improves Sharpness-A ware Minimization

Neural Information Processing Systems

Sharpness-A ware Minimization (SAM) has attracted significant attention for its effectiveness in improving generalization across various tasks. However, its underlying principles remain poorly understood. In this work, we analyze SAM's