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It's finally time for this year's edition of the Scripts National Spelling Bee.
The competition starts today in the nation's capital with 231 spellers
from the ages of 9 to 14 entering the preliminary round
and the winner will take home prizes from Miriam Webster Scholastic
and the Encyclopedia Britannica plus a championship trophy and $50,000 cash.
Meanwhile,
the president of Microsoft says tech companies and the government need to come to
a consensus when it comes to regulating
artificial intelligence before the 2024 election.
In an interview with CBS News,
Microsoft's Brad Smith praised the transformative potential of A I
but did say it requires new
safeguards against political misinformation suggesting a quote
that's to maintain human control over A I
and chipmaker NVIDIA announced that they're creating a new super computer.
This is to power the next era of generative A I like chat GPT
according to the company Google Meta and Microsoft are likely to be early users of
the new technology which will be one
of the world's fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers.
And that's your cheddar news update. I'm Baker Machado,
coming to you from Cheddar Studios in Lower Manhattan.