MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art (venturebeat.com)
California governor signs one driverless vehicle bill, vetoes two others (theverge.com)
Civitai Unveils SPINE: A Groundbreaking Workflow for AI-Powered Creativity (martechseries.com)
Introducing the Digital Twin Catalog: World’s Largest 3D Object Model Dataset (ai.meta.com)
Luma Unveils 10x Faster AI Video Generation, Reduces Creation Time to Under 20 Seconds (Luma AI on X)
Google Streamlines AI Studio Mobile Experience (Logan Kilpatrick on X)

Sony and Raspberry Pi launch powerful new AI camera for developers (betanews.com)
California governor vetoes major AI safety bill (theverge.com)
Mileseey Golf Unveils World’s First AI-Powered Golf Rangefinder (techbullion.com)

OpenAI’s $6.5B funding round may close as soon as next week (techcrunch.com)
Announcing Fine-Tuning and New Model Support for Azure AI Customization (azure.microsoft.com)
Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into singing Beatles duet (arstechnica.com)
Gemini is making Gmail’s smart replies smarter (theverge.com)
AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M (community.amd.com)

OpenAI as we knew it is dead (vox.com)
Airtable just launched an AI platform that could change how you work (venturebeat.com)
NotebookLM adds audio and YouTube support, plus easier sharing of Audio Overviews (google)
Runway launches fund to provide artists resources to make one hundred films (runwayml.com)
Nintendo’s Miyamoto Emphasizes Different Approach to AI in Gaming (perplexity.ai)
How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design (deepmind.google)

FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes (ftc.gov)
AI model identifies existing drugs that can be repurposed for treatment of rare diseases (medicalxpress.com)
OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity (reuters.com)
The CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati, has decided to leave OpenAI (Mira Murati on X)
Meta Connect 2024: biggest news and announcements (theverge.com)
Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses (about.fb.com)
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Getting New AI Features and More Partner Integrations (about.fb.com)
Meta’s AI Products Just Got Smarter and More Useful (about.fb.com)
Introducing Meta Quest 3S, Our Most Affordable Mixed Reality Headset (about.fb.com)

Snapchat taps Google’s Gemini to power its chatbot’s generative AI features (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft claims its AI safety tool not only finds errors but also fixes them (theverge.com)
Hollywood is coming out in force for California’s AI safety bill (theverge.com)
IBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model on Hugging Face for Weather and Climate Applications (prnewswire.com)
Figma’s AI-powered app generator is back after it was pulled for copying Apple (theverge.com)
Spotify’s AI Playlist creation tool lands in the U.S. (digitaltrends.com)
Meta will not immediately join EU’s AI Pact ahead of new law (reuters.com)
OpenAI begins rollout of Advanced Voice Mode to Pro users starting today (Sam Altman on X)
Suno.com Adds Song Cropping Feature for Pro Users (Suno on X)
Deepak Chopra’s Voice Joins ElevenLabs for Mindful Listening (elevenlabs.io)
Announcing the inaugural Llama Impact Grant and Llama Impact Innovation Award recipients (ai.meta.com)
Updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more (developers.google.com)
James Cameron, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Joins Stability AI Board of Directors (stability.ai)

Duolingo launches AI-powered Adventures mini-games and Video Call feature (venturebeat.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $120M fund for global AI education (finance.yahoo.com)
Cloudflare’s new AI Audit tool aims to give content creators better bot controls (zdnet.com)
The Intelligence Age (A Blog Post by Sam Altman) (ia.samaltman.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates superintelligence soon (venturebeat.com)
Siri May Not Get Its Apple Intelligence Update Until January 2025 (gizmodo.com)
Police are using AI to write crime reports. What could go wrong? (zdnet.com)
An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time (newscientist.com)
NVIDIA Partners for Globally Inclusive AI in U.S. Government Initiative (blogs.nvidia.com)

Drones carrying fireworks: why the world’s most famous gunpowder artist is collaborating with A I (theguardian.com)
Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI (theverge.com)
Meta Connect 2024: how to watch and what to expect (theverge.com)

Disney develops AI system enabling robots to learn complex movements from random motion data (Circuit on X)
Qualcomm in Talks With Intel Over Takeover, Report Says (cnet.com)
Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs (theverge.com)
Bringing a new wave of Copilot innovation to education (microsoft.com)

You can now exclude music styles when generating with Suno (Suno on X)
Kling received a major update with improved video quality and customization (Kling AI on X)
Alibaba accelerates AI push by releasing new open-source models, text-to-video (reuters.com)
Apple Intelligence is now live in public beta. Here’s what it offers and how to enable it .(techcrunch.com)
Amazon debuts Project Amelia, an AI assistant for sellers (techcrunch.com)
Amazon releases a video generator — but only for ads (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic Introduces Contextual Retrieval (anthropic.com)
Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models (github.blog)

LinkedIn is training AI models on your data (theverge.com)
T-Mobile partners with OpenAI for customer service revamp powered by AI (axios.com)
HubSpot unveils Breeze, its ‘complete AI solution’ (martech.org)
With visionOS 2, Apple’s Vision Pro comes into focus (theverge.com)
US to convene global AI safety summit in November (reuters.com)
NVIDIA AI Aerial Launches to Optimize Wireless Networks, Deliver New Generative AI Experiences on One Platform (blogs.nvidia.com)
Made on YouTube 2024: Announcements for YouTube creators and viewers (google)
Empowering YouTube creators with generative AI (deepmind.google)
RunwayML Partners with Lionsgate (runwayml.com)
Google Ads: New features and controls for AI-powered campaigns (google)

Google’s Gemini Live now has 10 different voices (Google Gemini on X)
California’s 5 new AI laws crack down on election deepfakes and actor clones (techcrunch.com)
I Tried Snap’s New Standalone AR Glasses, Which Do Mixed Reality, AI and Work Outdoors (cnet.com)
Snapchat’s AI selfie feature puts your face in personalized ads — here’s how to turn it off (theverge.com)
Snapchat’s My AI chatbot is getting new Google Lens-like features (techcrunch.com)
Snap is introducing an AI video-generation tool for creators (techcrunch.com)
Intel shares jump 6% after plan to spin off AI chip-making arm (cointelegraph.com)
Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model (arstechnica.com)
Meta extends its Ray-Ban smart glasses deal beyond 2030 (theverge.com)
Google will begin flagging AI-generated images in Search later this year (techcrunch.com)
Using AI to Replace an Actor Is Now Against the Law in California (indiewire.com)

Perplexity adds a new “reasoning” focus that leverages OpenAI o1 for Pro Users (Aravind Srinivas on X)
OpenAI increases rate limits on OpenAI o1 (OpenAI on X)
Luma Dream Machine announces API access for developers (on the same day Runway announced theirs) (Luma AI on X)
Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal (bloomberg.com)
Oracle’s Larry Ellison says that AI will someday track your every move (techcrunch.com)
TikTok-owner ByteDance reportedly designing AI chips with TSMC (qz.com)
iOS 18 is a smart upgrade, even without the AI (theverge.com)
OpenAI reportedly restructuring as a for-profit company in 2025 (mashable.com)
An update on our safety & security practices – Sam Altman steps down from safety board (openai.com)
Slack AI will generate transcripts and notes from huddles (engadget.com)
Introducing the Runway API for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo (runwayml.com)
visionOS 2 for Apple Vision Pro is available today (apple.com)
Supercharge your business with agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio (microsoft.com)
Hugging Face Introduces Community Tools on HuggingChat (huggingface.co)

Reddit user claims ChatGPT initiated a conversation from previous info (cointelegraph.com)

James Earl Jones’ controversial AI decision will let Darth Vader live on, but it raises concerns among actors (foxnews.com)
Everything to expect at Meta Connect 2024: AR, AI and the cheaper Quest 3S (engadget.com)

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user’s public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option (abc.net.au)
Oprah just had an AI special with Sam Altman and Bill Gates — here are the highlights (techcrunch.com)

OpenAI Introduces it’s Latest State of the Art Model, OpenAI o1 (openai.com)
Salesforce’s AgentForce: The AI assistants that want to run your entire business (venturebeat.com)
Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content (theverge.com)
Google’s AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes (engadget.com)
Cybever unveils AI-based 3D world creation platform (venturebeat.com)
Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure (azure.microsoft.com)
First Look: Exploring OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
Google shows off their latest advances in robot dexterity (Google Deepmind)
Suno releases new “Covers” feature to reimagine music you love (Suno on X)
Daz 3D and Yellow3d Announce the AI Character Shape Generator (Daz 3D on X)

Google’s NotebookLM can discuss your notes with you now. How to access it (and why you should) (zdnet.com)
China’s AI models lag their U.S. counterparts by 6 to 9 months, says former head of Google China (cnbc.com)
SAG-AFTRA and women’s groups urge Gavin Newsom to sign AI safety bill (theverge.com)
The NFL and AWS expand their partnership to tackle more AI use cases (siliconangle.com)
Adobe previews its upcoming text-to-video generative AI tools (theverge.com)
Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (techcrunch.com)

Reflection 70B model maker breaks silence amid fraud accusations (venturebeat.com)
PS5 vs PS5 Pro specs compared: The new model uses AI upscaling (yahoo.com)
The iPhone 16 will ship as a work in progress (theverge.com)
Parallels Desktop 20 offers free AI-ready virtual machines for seamless experimentation and deployment of AI tools (betanews.com)
Bumble to leverage AI to help users with profile creation and conversations (techcrunch.com)
ESPN’s AI-generated sports recaps are already missing the point (theverge.com)
Fine-tuned models are now in limited public beta for GitHub Copilot Enterprise (github.blog)
Workspaces in the Anthropic API Console (anthropic.com)

Meshy Announces the Launch of Next-Gen Generative AI for 3D: Meshy-4 (techbullion.com)
Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI (theverge.com)
Apple upgrades watchOS with AI-powered features, including translation (techcrunch.com)
iPhone 16 event: all the news from Apple’s keynote (theverge.com)
Apple introduces iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus (apple.com)
Apple Intelligence comes to iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next month (apple.com)

Roblox introduces new earning opportunities for creators, teases generative AI project (techcrunch.com)
US, EU, UK, and others sign legally enforceable AI treaty (theverge.com)
Microsoft updates their approach to tackling intimate image abuse (microsoft.com)

Google Shopping adds dresses to virtual try-on tool (google)
Lenovo’s newest laptops have a clever solution for iPhone file transferring that you have to see for yourself (zdnet.com)
YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training (techcrunch.com)
People are generating entire short films using new AI app (digitaltrends.com)
Qualcomm’s mixed reality project with Samsung and Google is… glasses (theverge.com)
Replit introduces the Replit Agent (Replit on YouTube)
HyperWrite debuts Reflection 70B, most powerful open source LLM (venturebeat.com)
Google Photos: Search improvements and early access to Ask Photos (google)

OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion (reuters.com)
X permanently stops Grok AI from using EU citizens’ tweets after court action by Irish data watchdog (independent.ie)
Few have tried OpenAI’s SearchGPT. Here’s what they think. (washingtonpost.com)
Stability AI’s Top 3 Text-to-Image Models Now Available in Amazon Bedrock (stability.ai)
Google launches new AI tools for the social impact sector (google)
Anthropic announces Claude for Enterprise (anthropic.com)

Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions (Luma AI on X)
Anthropic releases a Quickstarts repo, to help developers use their API (Alex Albert on X)
Introducing Project Sid, a simulation with over 1,000 autonomous agents (Robert Yang on X)
The Nvidia AI antitrust investigation is ‘escalating,’ reports Bloomberg (theverge.com)
Spotter launches AI tools to help YouTubers brainstorm video ideas, thumbnails and more (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI plans to build its own AI chips on TSMC’s forthcoming 1.6 nm A16 process node (pcgamer.com)
Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus goes online — and it really is colossal (cointelegraph.com)
OpenAI Japan representative mentions next-generation model “GPT Next” (itmedia.co.jp)
AI will teach this class a lesson but won’t be hanging in the teacher’s lounge (techradar.com)

Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant (finance.yahoo.com)
Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe — and it’s still kicking (techcrunch.com)
California bill set to ban CivitAI, HuggingFace, Flux, Stable Diffusion, and most existing AI image generation models (reddit.com)
Coinbase sees first crypto transaction between AI agents (cointelegraph.com)

Oprah Winfrey to Host ‘AI and the Future Us’ Special for ABC (variety.com)
New version of Playground AI launches with advanced graphic design capabilities (Suhail on X)
Leonardo Phoenix is now available via API for developers (Leonardo.ai)
Magic shares research on 100M Token Context Windows (magic.dev)
Qwen2-VL: To See the World More Clearly (qwenlm.github.io)
Google Gemini Now Accessible From Chrome Address Bar (searchenginejournal.com)
Wyze’s AI can now search your camera footage so you don’t have to (theverge.com)
OpenAI and Anthropic will share their models with the US government (theverge.com)
Apple Is in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (wsj.com)
With 10x growth since 2023, Llama is the leading engine of AI innovation (ai.meta.com)

Nvidia revenue more than doubles as demand for AI chips remains strong (ft.com)
Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’ (techcrunch.com)
New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time (arstechnica.com)
Google Gemini updates: Custom Gems and improved image generation with Imagen 3 (google)
AI Cracks the Chemistry Code to Better, Longer-lasting Solar Panels (scitechdaily.com)
Nvidia beats expectations but disappoints investors’ sky-high expectations (siliconangle.com)
Apple’s new iOS developer beta lets you remove objects from pictures using AI (techcrunch.com)
Meta is working on mixed-reality glasses, but they’re probably years away (theverge.com)
Contentious California AI bill passes legislature, awaits governor’s signature (reuters.com)

Google rolls out 3 new experimental LLMs (Logan Kilpatrick on X)
Google’s Gemini AI can now take notes on your Meet video calls (engadget.com)
Cerebras Launches the World’s Fastest AI Inference (cerebras.ai)
Amazon’s revamped Alexa with generative AI to roll out in October (zdnet.com)
AI (blogs.nvidia.com)
DaVinci Resolve 19 exits beta, full software available to download (with tons of AI features) (tvbeurope.com)
Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images (arstechnica.com)
Artifacts are now generally available (anthropic.com)
AI spots cancer and viral infections with nanoscale precision (medicalxpress.com)

Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (techcrunch.com)
Personalizing education with ChatGPT (openai.com)
OpenAI supports California AI bill requiring ‘watermarking’ of synthetic content (reuters.com)
Apple’s iPhone 16 launch event is set for September (theverge.com)
Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi (techcrunch.com)
Will.i.am launches AI-led RAiDiO.FYI (music-news.com)
Elon Musk unexpectedly offers support for California’s SB-1047 AI bill (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft support California bill requiring watermarks on AI content (techcrunch.com)

Meta pulls plug on plans for high-end Vision Pro competitor (theverge.com)
Anthropic says California AI bill’s benefits likely outweigh costs (reuters.com)
Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on Why Europe Should Embrace Open-Source AI (about.fb.com)
Grok-2 gets a speed bump after developers rewrite code (venturebeat.com)

Inside the Deck Perplexity Is Using to Pitch Advertisers (adweek.com)
Google appoints ex-CEO of Character.AI as Gemini co-head (breakingthenews.net)
Google DeepMind staff call for end to military contracts (theverge.com)
Perplexity AI plans to start running search ads in fourth quarter (cnbc.com)

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps – 3rd Edition (a16z.com)
MidJourney opens their web app to everyone and once again offers free trials (MidJourney on X)
Ideogram launches Ideogram 2.0 for free, with some major new improvements (Ideogram on X)
OpenAI Says California’s Controversial AI Bill Will Hurt Innovation (bloomberg.com)
Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (theverge.com)
D-ID launches an AI video translation tool that includes voice cloning and lip sync (techcrunch.com)
McAfee Rolls Out Deepfake Detector in Lenovo’s New Copilot-Plus PCs (cnet.com)

Hotshot launches new text-to-video AI generator (venturebeat.com)
Best Buy Introduces AI-Powered Delivery Tracking (pymnts.com)
Google Workspace Updates: Refine emails faster with updates to Help me write in Gmail (google.com)
Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models (venturebeat.com)
Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o (openai.com)
OpenAI partners with Condé Nast (openai.com)
Xmems Labs introduces tiny fans on chips for micro-cooling (venturebeat.com)
Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books (theverge.com)
Qualcomm’s New Processor Could Bring AI Features to Less Expensive Phones (cnet.com)
Nvidia unveils advances in digital humans and avatar tech at Gamescom (venturebeat.com)

Luma AI released Dream Machine 1.5 (Luma on X)
Code interpreter and plot rendering are slowly being rolled out into Perplexity (Aravind Srinivas on X)
Unitree Robotics has launched the mass production version of its humanoid robot (Unitree on X)
Trump posts a fake AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement (theverge.com)
ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech app Reader is now available globally (techcrunch.com)
Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products (techcrunch.com)
Stability AI names Hanno Basse as new Chief Technology Officer (stability.ai)
Wyoming voters face mayoral candidate who vows to let AI bot run government (theguardian.com)
Former Huawei recruit launches humanoid robots to rival Tesla’s Optimus (scmp.com)

AI technology can help you win the battle over mosquitoes (foxnews.com)
These ‘living computers’ are made from human neurons (livescience.com)

Midjourney releases new unified AI image editor on the web (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft PowerToys will launch and automatically arrange your favorite apps (theverge.com)
California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic (techcrunch.com)
Russia’s AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says (theguardian.com)
Anthropic adds a screenshot button to quickly capture the screen with Claude (Alex Albert on X)
Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation (openai.com)

Tavus introduces a conversational video interface for developers (Tavus on X)
Hedra releases Character-1.5 and Stylize for it’s AI Character animations (Hedra on X)
Nous Research Introduces Hermes 3, the latest version of their generalist language model (Nous Research on X)
Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo Image to Video is now available (Runway on X)
Exists launches GenAI platform to create 3D games from text prompts (venturebeat.com)
Google quietly opens Imagen 3 access to all U.S. users (venturebeat.com)
Geekbench releases AI benchmarking app (techcrunch.com)
Google’s AI Overviews get three useful updates. Here’s what’s new (zdnet.com)
Grammarly’s new tool aims to detect AI-generated text. Here’s how it works (zdnet.com)
Pindrop Launches Pulse Inspect: A Solution to Combat Deepfakes and the Spread of Misinformation (pindrop.com)

xAI’s new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes (theverge.com)
SAG-AFTRA Strikes Deal for AI Voice Replicas With Narrativ (variety.com)
OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model – but can’t quite explain how it’s better (zdnet.com)
AI overshadowed Pixel at the Pixel event (theverge.com)
Prompt caching with Claude (anthropic.com)

Grok-2 Beta Release (x.ai)
MultiOn announces a new AI Agent called Agent Q (MultiOn on X)
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (sakana.ai)
Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch (theverge.com)
The newest model of GPT-4o tops the leaderboard of LMSYS.org (lmsys.org on X)
OpenAI Releases SWE-bench Verified: Improved Software Engineering Benchmark for AI Models (openai.com)
Everything announced at Made by Google 2024 (techcrunch.com)
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2: Earbuds built for Gemini AI (google)
Pixel and Android announce new AI accessibility updates (google)
New Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL: Specs, design, price and more (google)
Applications Open: NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards (blogs.nvidia.com)

Cosine unveils their AI-powered software engineer called Genie (Alistair on X)
ChatGPT Stealthy Rolled Out A New Version of GPT-4o (ChatGPT on X)
Chatbot maker Replika says it’s okay if humans end up in relationships with AI (theverge.com)
AI music startup Lemonaide introduces new collab tool promising ‘ethical’ AI models (musicbusinessworldwide.com)

Unleashing Creativity: Rendora’s Text-to-3D Video Platform Shines at SIGGRAPH 2024 (techtimes.com)
Check Out This New Open-Source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor (80.lv)
ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3 (theverge.com)
ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing (arstechnica.com)
Good news — your Google Meet call will soon be able to take notes for you (techradar.com)

OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode (wired.com)
OpenAI says its latest GPT-4o model is ‘medium’ risk (theverge.com)
Introducing Qwen2-Math (qwenlm.github.io)
Google Nest Learning Thermostat launched: Now smarter with AI (gizmochina.com)
Palantir and Microsoft Partner to Deliver Enhanced Analytics and AI Services for National Security Operations (news.microsoft.com)
Gemini 1.5 Flash price drop with tuning rollout complete, and more (developers.googlecom)
XetHub is joining Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
Anthropic expands their model safety bug bounty program (anthropic.com)
Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors (openai.com)
OpenAI shares GPT-4o System Card to show focus on safety and alignment (openai.com)

Humane’s daily returns on the AI Pin are outpacing sales (theverge.com)
OpenAI reportedly leads $60M round for webcam startup Opal (siliconangle.com)
ByteDance Debuts Jimeng AI, Capable of Generating Media from Text, Similar to OpenAI’s Sora (techtimes.com)
Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature (techcrunch.com)
Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct (techcrunch.com)
Google Unveils New Gemini-AI Powered TV Streamer (thefastmode.com)

Fei-Fei Li, “The Godmother of AI,” shares her concerns around Senate Bill 1047 (Fei-Fei Li on X)
Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages (techcrunch.com)
Amazon upgrades its AI image generator (techcrunch.com)
Figure Robotics unveils new Figure 02, their humanoid AI-powered robot (Figure on X)
Introducing Structured Outputs in the API (openai.com)
Amazon Music’s new AI-powered tool helps you find and browse podcasts (aboutamazon.com)

OpenAI tempers expectations with less bombastic, GPT-5-less DevDay this fall (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave (techcrunch.com)
AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia (techcrunch.com)
YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia creates tools to control robots with Apple Vision Pro (appleinsider.com)
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI (404media.co)

OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)

Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw (theverge.com)

Meta Talks With Judi Dench, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key for AI Voice Projects (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI-backed startup Figure teases new humanoid robot (venturebeat.com)
Google pulls Gemini AI ad from Olympics after backlash (theverge.com)
Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google (techcrunch.com)
Adobe Illustrator’s new generative vector fill is game-changing (even if you can’t draw) (zdnet.com)

DC Welcomes Ex-OpenAI Board Member After Sam Altman Drama (bloomberg.com)
The new Google Gemini 1.5 Pro tops the community leaderboard on lmsys.org (lmsys.org on X)
A new version of Google Gemini 1.5 is now available for testing in AI Studio (Logan Kilpatrick on X)
Suno writes response to lawsuits around how AI music is trained (Suno on X)
Announcing Black Forest Labs and the FLUX.1 suite of text-to-image models (blackforestlabs.ai)
The climate crisis has bigger problems than AI (theverge.com)
Watch ChatGPT’s new voice mode mimic accents and correct pronunciation (theverge.com)
3 new Chrome AI features for even more helpful browsing (google)
Introducing Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation From Single Images (stability.ai)
Claude is now available in Brazil (anthropic.com)

“AI toothbrushes” are coming for your teeth—and your data (arstechnica.com)
Runway announces faster video AI model Gen-3 Alpha Turbo (venturebeat.com)
Taco Bell’s drive-thru AI might take your next order (theverge.com)
Vimeo Announces AI-Powered Video Translation with Authentic Voice Cloning (finance.yahoo.com)
Google’s ‘About This Image’ Feature Will Tell You How Reliable a Photo Is (google)
Google Expands Gemma 2 AI with New Models and Tools (developers.google.com)
Google Releases Gemma Scope for AI Model Interpretation and Understanding (deepmind.google)
AI reprograms glioblastoma cells into dendritic cells for cancer immunotherapy (news-medical.net)
OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model (techcrunch.com)
People are mad at Google’s new AI ad (morningbrew.com)
Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search (cnbc.com)

Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots (theverge.com)
Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data (theverge.com)
MidJourney Releases V. 6.1 with improved image quality, text, and more (MidJourney on X)
OpenAI endorses Senate bills that could shape America’s AI policy (techcrunch.com)
White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now (apnews.com)
Introducing the Perplexity Publishers’ Program (perplexity.ai)
An AI Gadget Called Friend Has Been Revealed in a New Trailer (Friend on YouTube)
Canva to Acquire And Integrate Leonardo A (leonardo.ai)

Create Your Own Custom AI With AI Studio (about.fb.com)
New NVIDIA Digital Human Technologies Enhance Customer Interactions Across Industries (blogs.nvidia.com)
Introducing SAM 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model for videos and images (ai.meta.com)
Runway Releases Image-To-Video in Gen-3 (Runway on X)
Shutterstock releases generative 3D, Getty Images upgrades service powered by Nvidia (venturebeat.com)
Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy (theverge.com)
Five firms—don’t ask who—will vie to make brains for USAF robot wingmen (defenseone.com)
NVIDIA Accelerates Humanoid Robotics Development (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
OpenAI Announces GPT-4o Long Output With 64k Context Output (openai.com)

Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Release of iOS 18, iPadOS Overhauls (bloomberg.com)
Introducing Amuse 2.0 Beta with AMD XDNA™ Super Resolution: a fully local, AI experience (community.amd.com)

Here’s Where AI Will Play a Role At the Paris Olympics – Could It Change the Future of Sport? (inverse.com)

Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI (theguardian.com)
Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety (techcrunch.com)

SearchGPT is a prototype of new AI search features | OpenAI (openai.com)
Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies – The Verge (theverge.com)
AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission (404media.co)
Gemini gets 1.5 Flash, a new related content feature and more (google)

US lawmakers send a letter to OpenAI requesting government access (cointelegraph.com)
Kling AI Video Generator Now Available Globally to Take on OpenAI’s Sora (decrypt.co)
How NVIDIA AI Foundry Lets Enterprises Forge Custom Generative AI Models (blogs.nvidia.com)
Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side (theverge.com)
Mistral AI Launches Mistral Large 2 (mistral.ai)
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots – except the ones that pay (theverge.com)
X launches Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature (techcrunch.com)
Stability AI Announces Stable Video 4D (stability.ai)
Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards (openai.com)

Suno released a new feature to split up instruments on AI generated music (Suno on X)
Cohere introduces Rerank 3 Nimble, built to enhance enterprise search and RAG systems (Cohere on X)
Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature (techcrunch.com)
Groq Supercharges Fast AI Inference For Meta Llama 3.1 (groq.com)
Meta launches Llama 3.1: A 405B Parameter Open-Source Model (ai.meta.com)
Leonardo Launches ‘Leonardo for Teams’: AI-Powered Creative Suite for Business Collaboration (Leonardo on X)
OpenAI Announces New Safety Measures and Transparency Initiatives for AI Development (OpenAI on X)
Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature (techcrunch.com)
Adobe Unveils Powerful New Innovations in Illustrator and Photoshop (news.adobe.com)

Tesla Optimus robots to be in “low production” next year (Elon Musk on X)
Luma Labs releases new “looping” feature for Dream Machine (Luma AI on X)
Elon claims Grok 3.0 will be world’s most powerful model and should be released in December (DogeDesigner on X)
Elon Musk and X built the most powerful AI training cluster in the world! (Elon Musk on X)
Sakana AI drops image models to generate Japan’s traditional ukiyo-e artwork (venturebeat.com)
Virtual versions of 11,000 real college football players are taking the field for EA’s ‘College Football 25’  (techradar.com)
Stability AI Publishes Research Paper on Stable Audio Open Text-to-Audio Model (stability.ai)

Figma explains how its AI tool ripped off Apple’s design (theverge.com)
California fights for AI laws amid Trump plan to curb regulation (washingtonpost.com)
Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings (venturebeat.com)

GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence | OpenAI (openai.com)
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless – The Markup (themarkup.org)

Meta won’t bring future multimodal AI models to EU (axios.com)
Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation (venturebeat.com)
New ways to get creative with Microsoft Designer, powered by AI (microsoft.com)
Gemini now answers general questions on Android lockscreen (9to5google.com)
Turn your selfie into a printable 3D character with Tencent’s AI-powered app (gizmochina.com)

Andrej Karpathy launches an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs (Andrej Karpathy on X)
Leonardo.Ai Wants You to Be in Control of AI Image Generation (cnet.com)
Anthropic releases Claude app for Android (anthropic.com)
Microsoft faces UK antitrust investigation over hiring of Inflection AI staff (theverge.com)
Testing Math Notes and the Calculator app in iPadOS 18 (theverge.com)
Apple trained AI models on YouTube content without consent (9to5mac.com)

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism (arstechnica.com)
YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing (9to5google.com)
OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ (reuters.com)
Announcing Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app (google.com)
Self-organizing drone flock demonstrates safe traffic solution for smart cities of the future (techxplore.com)

Whistleblowers claim OpenAI’s NDAs are illegal (theaiwired.com)

Amazon’s AI shopping assistant rolls out to all users in the US (theverge.com)
AI system achieves 96% accuracy in determining sex from dental X-rays (psypost.org)
The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (theverge.com)
OpenAI on the steps for AI to reach human intelligence (qz.com)

Watch a robot navigate the Google DeepMind offices using Gemini (techcrunch.com)
Every product Samsung unveiled at Unpacked July 2024: Galaxy Z Fold 6, Watch Ultra, Ring, more (zdnet.com)

OpenAI Blocks LLM Access for Chinese Devs After ChatGPT Restriction in China (techtimes.com)
Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce research partnership (openai.com)
Samsung launches the AI Galaxy Ring, an Oura smart ring competitor (qz.com)
Microsoft Gives Up Observer Seat in OpenAI Board, Apple Also Unlikely to Join (bloomberg.com)

Artifacts made with Claude can now be published and shared (Anthropic on X)
Stability AI Releases New Stable Assistant Features (stability.ai)
You can now evaluate prompts in the Anthropic developer console (anthropic.com)
Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China (theguardian.com)

Magnific AI Upscaler gets Adobe Photoshop Plugin (Javi Lopez on Twitter)
Animate any portrait with Live Portrait (now available on Hugging Face) (github.io)
Poe introduces “Previews” – See and interact with web applications generated directly in chats (Poe on X)
Odyssey shows off “Hollywood-grade” visual AI that can be both generated and directed (Oliver Cameron on X)
Meta AI develops compact language model for mobile devices (venturebeat.com)
Google Cloud TPUs made available to Hugging Face users (huggingface.co)

AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care (time.com)

Stability AI Updated Their Stable Diffusion 3 Licensing Terms After Criticism (stability.ai)
Midjourney Magazine Releases Year One Coffee Table Book (mag.midjourney.com)
Andrej Karpathy’s Keynote & Winner Pitches at UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2024 (Berkeley SkyDeck on Youtube)
Phoenix Cop Hilariously Pulls Over Driverless Waymo Going Wrong Way, Who Pays The Ticket? (carscoops.com)
Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)
AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend (tomshardware.com)
Tesla shows its humanoid robot Optimus at China AI conference, but behind glass (scmp.com)

 OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text (theverge.com)
 Cloudflare now allows you to block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click (cloudflare.com)
 Kyutai, a nonprofit AI research lab, unveiled Moshi, a real-time voice AI system (Kyutai on Youtube)

ElevenLabs Launches Free Voice Isolator and Background Noise Remover (elevenlabs.io)
Google will now generate disclosures for political ads that use AI (theverge.com)
Shanghai AI Lab introduced InternLM 2.5-7B, am open-source model with a 1M context window (InternLM on X)

Perplexity Pro Search: Upgraded for more advanced problem-solving (perplexity.ai)
The future of music creation? Suno’s AI app hits the App Store (venturebeat.com)
Leaked WhatsApp Feature Allows Users to Create Customized Stickers Using Their Own Image (techtimes.com)
Apple to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Agreement (bloomberg.com)
Meta’s new AI model does text-to-3D images in under a minute (digitaltrends.com)
Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app (techcrunch.com)
News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks (techcrunch.com)
Listen to books and articles voiced by Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier (elevenlabs.io)

YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice  (techcrunch.com)
Instagram’s ‘Made with AI’ label swapped out for ‘AI info’ after photographers’ complaints  (theverge.com)
xAI’s Grok 2: Elon Musk Unveils JARVIS-Inspired AI Assistant Arriving in August (coinspeaker.com)

Apple could announce a Google Gemini deal this fall (theverge.com)
Figma will use your content to train its AI (stackdiary.com)

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (theverge.com)
The Center for Investigative Reporting is suing OpenAI and Microsoft (theverge.com)
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are about to get new competition (digitaltrends.com)

Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 (openai.com)
Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’ (techcrunch.com)
Announcing LangGraph v0.1 & LangGraph Cloud: Running agents at scale, reliably (langchain.dev)
Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram (techcrunch.com)
Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls (techcrunch.com)
YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels (theverge.com)
TIME and OpenAI Announce Strategic Content Partnership (time.com)
TIME and ElevenLabs partner to accelerate the creation of audio accessible content (elevenlabs.io)
Google Translate adds 110 languages in its biggest expansion yet (google.com)
Google launches Gemma 2, its next generation of open models (google.com)
Gemini 1.5 Pro 2M context window, code execution capabilities, and Gemma 2 are available today (google.com)

Amazon is reportedly working on a new AI chatbot (engadget.com)
Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video (techcrunch.com)
Figma announces big redesign with AI (theverge.com)
Expanding Access to Claude for Government (anthropic.com)
What the RIAA lawsuits against Udio and Suno mean for AI and copyright (theverge.com)
Lester Holt interviews Open AI’s Sam Altman and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky (NBC News on YouTube)
Opera’s browser adds AI-powered image generation and better multimedia controls (techcrunch.com)
An AI version of Al Michaels will deliver Olympic recaps on Peacock (theverge.com)

ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model (evolutionaryscale.ai)
OpenAI has delayed the release of their Advanced Voice Assistant (OpenAI on X)
ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all (techcrunch.com)
Collaborate with Claude on Projects (anthropic.com)
The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand (theverge.com)
Introducing the ElevenLabs Reader App (elevenlabs.io)
Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded (rabbitu.de)
Etched Unveils Sohu: AI Chip Claims 20x Performance Boost for Transformer Models (etched.com)

Gemini in the side panel of Gmail is rolling out now (google.com)
Introducing Synthesia 2.0 (Synthesia on YouTube)
Sony, Warner, Universal Sue Suno, Udio For Training AI on Copyrighted Music (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI buys a remote collaboration platform (techcrunch.com)

Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership (wsj.com)
Stability AI gets new CEO and funding (the-decoder.com)
Google introduces new AI tools for Workspace for Education (google)
Meta AI Arrives In India: Leading AI Assistant Now At Your Fingertip (about.fb.com)

Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says (reuters.com)
Grok 1.5 potential use of Midjourney for image generation gains evidence (bolnews.com)
Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI acquires Rockset (openai.com)

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows AI power users: ‘this is wild’ (venturebeat.com)
Leonardo AI Launches a New Model—Can It Dethrone Ideogram as Best Image Generator? (decrypt.co)
Swallow this robot: Endiatx’s tiny pill examines your body with cameras, sensors (venturebeat.com)
Walmart Tech Executive Joins PayPal as Its New ‘AI-Focused’ CTO (techtimes.com)
Empowering defenders through our Cybersecurity Grant Program (openai.com)
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet (anthropic.com)

Musk’s xAI supercomputer will get server racks from Dell and Super Micro (fastcompany.com)
Ai Build launches new version of its AI-powered 3D printing software (3dprintingindustry.com)
Apple Intelligence Will Label AI-Generated Images in Metadata (cnet.com)
Microsoft drops Florence-2, a unified model to handle a variety of vision tasks (venturebeat.com)
OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company (theverge.com)

Apple’s Vision Pro team is reportedly focused on building a cheaper headset (theverge.com)
Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world (axios.com)
Releasing New AI Research Models to Accelerate Innovation at Scale (about.fb.com)
Top things to know about Copilot+ PCs from Microsoft Surface, available today at Microsoft.com (blogs.windows.com)

Meet Symphony Avatars: TikTok’s New Creative AI Tool (newsroom.tiktok.com)
Feds, private sector run first-ever simulation of an AI cyberattack (axios.com)
Google DeepMind Shifts From Research Lab to AI Product Factory (bloomberg.com)
Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math (techcrunch.com)
Adobe Acrobat Reimagines Documents for Multi-Format, AI-Powered Work (adobe.com)
Google DeepMind Unveils News Research – Generating audio for video (deepmind.google)
China’s DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo (venturebeat.com)
Apple embraces open-source AI with 20 Core ML models on Hugging Face platform (venturebeat.com)
Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: A New Frontier for Video Generation (runwayml.com)

Sam Altman says OpenAI could become a for-profit meaning it could eventually IPO (neowin.net)

AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics (nbcnews.com)
Former Meta engineers launch Jace AI that works independently (venturebeat.com)
Snowden: OpenAI Hiring Former NSA Director Is ‘Willful, Calculated Betrayal’ (pcmag.com)
OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors (openai.com)
McDonald’s is ending its drive-thru AI test (restaurantbusinessonline.com)
Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe due to Irish request (reuters.com)

New Open-Source Qwen2 outperforms Llama 3 on every benchmark (qwenlm.github.io)
Spotify announces an in-house creative agency, tests generative AI voiceover ads (techcrunch.com)
Satya Nadella remarks at the 2024 G7 Summit (blogs.microsoft.com)

Apple paying OpenAI with exposure, not money (appleinsider.com)
Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo (petapixel.com)
OpenAI to use Oracle’s chips for more AI compute (theverge.com)
Luma AI debuts ‘Dream Machine’ for realistic video generation, heating up AI media race (venturebeat.com)
Apple Passes Microsoft to Become World’s Most Valuable Company Again (macrumors.com)
Diffusers welcomes Stable Diffusion 3 (huggingface.co)
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (stability.ai)
Suno releases new “Audio Input” feature to add your own sounds to AI-generated music (Suno on X)

Google still recommends glue for your pizza (theverge.com)
Pika Labs updates and improves its image-to-video model (Pika on X)
MidJourney releases new “Model Personalization Feature (MidJourney on X)
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman (cnbc.com)
Google Introduces Gemini Nano AI for Pixel 8 Series in Latest Feature Drop (techtimes.com)
Microsoft makes Copilot Pro less appealing, ditches ChatGPT’s GPT Builder (windowslatest.com)
Apple and Samsung Have Different Visions of AI for Our Phones (cnet.com)
AI and drone footage help accurately estimate protest crowd sizes (restofworld.org)

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) (openai.com)
Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t train AI on customers’ work (theverge.com)
OpenAI and Apple announce partnership (openai.com)
Introducing Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac (apple.com)
iOS 18 makes iPhone more personal, capable, and intelligent than ever (apple.com)
macOS Sequoia takes productivity and intelligence on Mac to new heights (apple.com)
iPadOS 18 introduces powerful intelligence features and apps for Apple Pencil (apple.com)

F1 Unveils AI-Generated Trophy for Montreal Grand Prix Winner Created by Amazon (techtimes.com)

OpenAI Sora’s biggest rival is here: Chinese AI model Kling creates videos with more accuracy (indianexpress.com)
AI Startup Perplexity Says News Summary Tool Has ‘Rough Edges’ (bloomberg.com)
Apple WWDC 2024 What to Expect: AI, iPadOS, iOS 18, macOS 15, Siri Updates, More (bloomberg.com)
Adobe terms clarified: Will never own your work, or use it to train AI (9to5mac.com)
Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs (blogs.windows.com)

Ashton Kutcher Is Getting Dragged For His Comments About AI (deadline.com)
Artificial intelligence is running for mayor of Cheyenne (oilcity.news)
Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks (pcworld.com)
Camtasia 2024 embraces AI to improve workflow and simplify video creation (betanews.com)

Sneak Peek: AI Playground, AI Made Easy For Intel Arc GPUs (intel.com)
Introducing Stable Audio Open – An Open Source Model for Audio Samples and Sound Design (stability.ai)
Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case (theverge.com)

AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk told Nvidia to ship AI chips reserved for Tesla to X, xAI (cnbc.com)
Even the Raspberry Pi is getting in on AI (theverge.com)
Computex 2024: ASUS announces PCs with AMD Ryzen AI processors (blogs.windows.com)
Cisco ThousandEyes Digital Experience Assurance Radically Shifts IT Operations from Monitoring to Action (cisco.com)
Cisco Reveals Nexus HyperFabric, A Data Center Infrastructure Solution with NVIDIA for Generative AI (cisco.com)
Cisco Launches $1B Global AI Investment Fund (cisco.com)
Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Announces New AI-powered Innovations and Investments (cisco.com)
OpenAI employee says he was fired for raising security concerns to board (transformernews.ai)
OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers (macrumors.com)

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings (theverge.com)
NVIDIA’s latest AI feature is in-game help (engadget.com)
Apple set to disappoint fans with hardware-free WWDC (macworld.com)
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings (theverge.com)
Hitachi and Microsoft enter agreement to accelerate business and social innovation with generative AI (news.microsoft.com)

Jensen Huang Computex Keynote: Nvidia Reveals New AI Software and Services (bloomberg.com)
Watch Everything Announced from AMD Keynote at Computex 2024 (cnet.com)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Keynote at COMPUTEX 2024 (Nvidia on YouTube)

Meta is using your posts to train AI. It’s not easy to opt out (mashable.com)
Will Siri Become More Like ChatGPT? All Eyes on Apple’s WWDC (cnet.com)

Fable Studio Plans Artificial Intelligence Streaming Platform (hollywoodreporter.com) 
Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI’s Sora (indiewire.com)
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (therobotreport.com)
AI generated sound effects are here (elevenlabs.io)
Meta’s AI is summarizing some bizarre Facebook comment sections (theverge.com)
AI Search Company You.com Launches Custom AI Assistants (cnet.com)

Magic Leap and Google enter into a partnership to advance XR technologies (magicleap.com)
Tech giants form an industry group to help develop next-gen AI chip components (techcrunch.com)
Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (techcrunch.com)
Claude can now use tools (anthropic.com)
OpenAI for Education (openai.com)
Introducing OpenAI for Nonprofits (openai.com)
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations (openai.com)

The new Udio-130 allows up to 2-minute AI song generations (Udio on X)
Gavin Newsom warns against perils of over-regulating AI (politico.com)
Custom GPTs open for free ChatGPT users (theverge.com)
Enhancing news in ChatGPT with The Atlantic (openai.com)
Mistral AI introduces Codestral, their first model fine-tuned for coding (mistral.ai)
Vox Media and OpenAI Form Strategic Content and Product Partnership (voxmedia.com)
GTA 7 Will Be Built ‘In A Twin Of The Real World’ Says Former Googler (benzinga.com)

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once (washington.edu)
Microsoft launches Copilot for Telegram (theverge.com)
OpenAI’s board learned about the launch of ChatGPT via Twitter (Bilawal Sidhu on X)
New AI tools much hyped but not much used, study says (bbc.com)
Apple’s WWDC 2024 Invite Is Out. The Wait for iOS 18 and AI Is Almost Over (cnet.com)
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk and Yann LeCun’s social media feud highlights key differences in approach to AI research and hype (venturebeat.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pledges to donate most of his wealth (apnews.com)
Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee (openai.com)

Chatbot Maker Character.ai Discussing Potential Partnerships With Meta, xAI (pymnts.com)
Iyo thinks its GenAI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled (techcrunch.com)

xAI raises record-breaking series B funding round (x.ai)

Make a song from any sound with Suno 3.5 (Suno on X)

Meta Creates Group to Advise on AI Products (investor.fb.com)

OpenAI sends internal memo releasing former employees from NDAs (cnbc.com)
Google’s AI Feature Suggested Using Glue to Keep Cheese on a Pizza (businessinsider.com)
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show (washingtonpost.com)
A new way to generate basketball analytics through tracking with computer vision and AI (Amar Singh on X)
Near plans AI agent to help users code decentralized apps (cointelegraph.com)
Microsoft being investigated over new ‘Recall’ AI feature that tracks your every PC move (mashable.com)
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul, monthly subscription price (cnbc.com)
A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp (openai.com)

Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom (techcrunch.com)
Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut (theverge.com)
Meta introduces Chameleon, a state-of-the-art multimodal model (venturebeat.com)
In Seoul summit, heads of states and companies commit to AI safety (techcrunch.com)
Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste (theverge.com)
Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them (theverge.com)
Microsoft launches Phi-3, previews its Phi-3-vision multimodal AI (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft intros a Copilot for teams (techcrunch.com)
Introducing GitHub Copilot Extensions: Unlocking unlimited possibilities with our ecosystem of partners (github.blog)
Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature ‘privacy nightmare’ (bbc.com)

Redefining the Future of AI (inflection.ai)
Apple teaming with OpenAI on chatbot to be announced at WWDC (macdailynews.com)
LOVO AI lawsuit: Actors Hit AI Voice Cloning Company With Class Action (hollywoodreporter.com)
Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles (engadget.com)
With Recall, Microsoft is using AI to fix Windows’ eternally broken search (engadget.com)
Has ChatGPT launched its Search product in stealth? (searchengineland.com)
ChatGPT’s mobile app revenue saw its biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launch (techcrunch.com)
Scarlett Johansson says that OpenAI approached her to use her voice (techcrunch.com)
Accelerating innovation: A new era of AI at work begins (blogs.windows.com)
Introducing Copilot+ PCs (blogs.microsoft.com)

How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen (openai.com)

Sony Music Group warns more than 700 companies against using its content to train AI (nbcnews.com)
The ChatGPT desktop app is more helpful than I expected – here’s why and how to try it | ZDNET (zdnet.com)
ChatGPT lets users upload from Google Drive and OneDrive directly (theverge.com)
Slack under attack over sneaky AI training policy (techcrunch.com)

OpenAI Staffers Responsible for Safety Are Jumping Ship (gizmodo.com)
What to expect from Microsoft Build 2024: The Surface event, Windows 11 and AI (engadget.com)
Google and OpenAI show we’re entering a new phase of the AI era (fastcompany.com)

Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product (techcrunch.com)
Everyone in Hollywood Is Using AI, but “They Are Scared to Admit It” (hollywoodreporter.com)
Google I/O 2024: 100 things Google announced (google)

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs (techcrunch.com)
Google I/O 2024: Sundar Pichai on Gemini, AI progress and more (google)
Google I/O 2024: New ways to experience Google AI on Android (google)
Google I/O 2024: Google Gemini update: Access to 1.5 Pro and new features (google)
Google I/O 2024: Introducing Veo and Imagen 3 generative AI tools (google)
Google I/O 2024: Gemini 1.5 Pro updates, 1.5 Flash debut and 2 new Gemma models (google)
Google I/O 2024: Sign up for VideoFX and see updates to MusicFX, ImageFX (google)
Google I/O 2024: How Google’s LearnLM generative AI models support teachers and learners (google)
Google I/O 2024: Google Gemini updates: Flash 1.5, Gemma 2 and Project Astra (google)
Google I/O 2024: Ask Photos: New AI feature coming to Google Photos (google)
Google I/O 2024: New generative AI experiences in Search (google)
Cisco Hypershield revamps cybersecurity with AI-powered defense (siliconangle.com

Google showcases a potential answer to GPT-4o ahead of I/O (androidcentral.com)
Apple Releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad Updates With New AI Features (macrumors.com)
OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open to all for free (theverge.com)
Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)
OpenAI Spring Update (Live Stream) (openai.com)

At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (techcrunch.com)

Bumble’s CEO says your dating ‘AI concierge’ will date hundreds of other people’s ‘concierges’ for you (Tsarathustra on X)
OpenAI considers allowing AI porn (techcrunch.com)
Hong Kong University Brings Albert Einstein to Life Using AI, Transforming Him into a Virtual Lecturer (techtimes.com)

Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (venturebeat.com)
Krea begins rolling out AI video feature (Krea on X)
ElevenLabs is working on Suno/Udio-style song feature (ElevenLabs on X)
Google I/O 2024: What to expect (techcrunch.com)

Sam Altman Says AI’s Economic Impact Is a Top Concern (businessinsider.com)
Microsoft is building a $3.3 billion data center at the former Foxconn site (theverge.com)
Daimler’s driverless semi trucks will hit the road in 2027 (theverge.com)
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 AI model (google)

OpenAI strikes licensing deal with the magazine giant behind People (theverge.com)
Sperm whale ‘alphabet’ discovered, thanks to machine learning (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI Creating “Media Manager” so that content owners can manage how their works are used in AI (openai.com)
Meet Pixel 8a: The Google AI phone at an unbeatable value (google)
Apple introduces M4 chip (apple.com)

40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners (techspot.com)
Generative AI will be designing new drugs on its own in near future (cnbc.com)
New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (arstechnica.com)
YouTube Premium members can now test AI ‘Jump ahead’ (9to5google.com)
Warren Buffett says AI scamming will be the next big ‘growth industry’ (cnbc.com)
New Apple Photos app to utilize generative AI for image editing (appleinsider.com)
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models (stackoverflow.co)
Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (venturebeat.com)
X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI (techcrunch.com)
More details emerge about Apple’s plans for AI in iOS 18 (theverge.com)

OpenAI appears to be planning on getting into the search engine game (Lior S. on LinkedIn)
You can now generate even longer songs with Udio (Udio on X)
Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterprise AI tool (techcrunch.com)
First music video generated by OpenAI’s Sora is here (venturebeat.com)

Meshy-3 is Here: Ultra Realistic Sculptures, PBR, and New Image to 3D Pipeline (Meshy on YouTube)
Ideogram Pro launches with 12K fast AI image generations monthly (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal (theverge.com)
Introducing the Claude Team plan and iOS app (anthropic.com)

Google to pay up to $6 mln to News Corp for new AI content, The Information reports | Reuters (reuters.com)

‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools (nature.com)
We’re bringing the Financial Times’ world-class journalism to ChatGPT (openai.com)
Mysterious new LLM “gpt2-chatbot” appears to perform as well as state of the art models (rentry.co)
ChatGPT has rolled out “Memory” for all ChatGPT Plus Users (OpenAI on X)
China Unveils Vidu: A Powerful Text-to-Video Generator (maginative.com)
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment (github.blog)

China unveils first self-developed humanoid robot (CGTN on YouTube)
Sam Altman’s OpenAI reportedly in partnership talks with his other firm, Worldcoin (cointelegraph.com)
Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (theverge.com)

Apple’s OpenAI Talks Intensify as It Seeks to Add AI Features (bloomberg.com)
Biden administration taps tech CEOs for AI safety, security board (nbcnews.com)
AI-powered home security system strikes back with paintballs and tear gas (foxnews.com)
Drake has taken down his diss track featuring AI Tupac   (theverge.com)
Google announces new investments in data centers and AI upskilling (google)

Meditron: An LLM suite for low-resource medical settings leveraging Meta Llama (ai.meta.com)
Sanctuary’s new humanoid robot learns faster and costs less (techcrunch.com)
Metro installing AI-powered cameras on buses to issue tickets to illegally parked vehicles (abc7.com)
OpenAI customer story: Moderna (openai.com)
Watch it and weep (or smile): Synthesia’s AI video avatars now feature emotions (techcrunch.com)
New research on generative AI and the economy (google)

Adobe’s impressive AI upscaling project makes blurry videos look HD (theverge.com)
Tupac’s estate may sue Drake over ‘Taylor Made’ AI-generated diss track (theverge.com)
Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M (techcrunch.com)
Rabbit R1 hands-on: early tests with the $199 AI gadget (theverge.com)
Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft’s Mini AI Is Built to Run on Your Phone, and That’s a Key Difference (cnet.com)

Apple cuts 2024 & 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts (medium.com)
Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (theverge.com)
Adobe’s new Firefly model makes it easier to use Photoshop’s AI tools (theverge.com)
Mustafa Suleyman: AI is turning into something totally new (TED Talk) (ted.com)
Introducing more enterprise-grade features for API customers (openai.com)
OpenAI’s commitment to child safety: adopting safety by design principles (openai.com)
New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses Styles and Meta AI Updates (about.fb.com)
Introducing the Open Chain of Thought Leaderboard (huggingface.co)

Microsoft hires former Meta exec to bolster AI supercomputing team (theverge.com)
Report: Apple acquires French startup behind AI and computer vision technology (9to5mac.com)
Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent (huggingface.co)
Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem (about.fb.com)

TED Uses Sora to Imagine TED in 40-years (TED on X)
IOC takes the lead for the Olympic Movement and launches Olympic AI Agenda (olympics.com)
Drake Drops ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ With AI Tupac Shakur Verse (variety.com)
Blockade Labs improves quality for AI-generated 3D art for 360-degree apps (venturebeat.com)
AI now surpasses humans in almost all performance benchmarks (newatlas.com)

HarperCollins to Use ElevenLabs on Non-English Audiobooks (publishingperspectives.com)
Blockade Labs improves quality for AI-generated 3D art for 360-degree apps (venturebeat.com)
ChatGPT is a squeeze away with Nothing’s upgraded earbuds (techcrunch.com)
Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available (stability.ai)
Meta adds its AI chatbot, powered by Llama 3, to the search bar across its apps (techcrunch.com)
US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight (theverge.com)
Wide Open: NVIDIA Accelerates Inference on Meta Llama 3 (blogs.nvidia.com)
Meet Your New Assistant: Meta AI, Built With Llama 3 (about.fb.com)
Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date (ai.meta.com)

Hala Point: Intel reveals world’s biggest ‘brain-inspired’ neuromorphic computer (newscientist.com)
An update on Amazon’s plans for Just Walk Out and checkout-free technology (aboutamazon.com)
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric (techcrunch.com)
Google will provide AI to the National Guard for disaster response (washingtonpost.com)
Google will pump more than $100B into AI says DeepMind boss (theregister.com)
Logitech announces AI Prompt Builder software with matching mouse (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft announces new industrial AI innovations from the cloud to the factory floor (blogs.microsoft.com)

iOS 18 to include limited on-device AI features (appleinsider.com)
5 highlights from Google Cloud Next 2024 (google)
Amazon Music follows Spotify with an AI playlist generator of its own, Maestro (techcrunch.com)
Adobe explores OpenAI partnership as it adds AI video tools (reuters.com)

Humane AI Pin is Worst Gadget MKBHD Has Ever Reviewed (MKBHD on YouTube)
Multi-bot Chat is Now Available on Poe (quora.com)
Adobe previews AI object addition and removal for Premiere Pro (engadget.com)
Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 19 arrives with AI-powered motion tracking and color grading (engadget.com)
Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community (huggingface.co)

Introducing OpenAI Japan (openai.com)

Grok-1.5 Vision Preview (x.ai)
SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections for artists in deal with major record labels (reuters.com)
Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram (techcrunch.com)
Forbes 2024 AI 50 List – Top Artificial Intelligence Startups (forbes.com)
Freepik redefines AI image generation with unrivaled realism in real-time (martechseries.com)

Adobe purchases videos at $3 per minute to drive AI (nairametrics.com)
Dyson’s AR app shows you where you’ve vacuumed (theverge.com)
Intel unveils Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, says it beats Nvidia’s H100 (gsmarena.com)
Google Will Open Its Magic Editor AI Photo Tools to Everyone for Free, With a Catch (cnet.com)
Meta’s AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence (thenextweb.com)
Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn’t here yet (theverge.com)
Google and Intel challenge Nvidia on AI chips. It won’t be easy.(qz.com)

Card game developer paid an ‘AI artist’ $90,000 to generate card art (pcgamer.com)
Former Google Deepmind Researchers Launch Udio, A New AI-Powered Music App (prnewswire.com)
Mistral Releases New Mixtral 8x22b Model Via Torrent on X (Mistral on X)
Gemma Family Expands with Models Tailored for Developers and Researchers (google.com)
Our next generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (ai.meta.com)

OpenAI Releases “Majorly Improved” GPT-4 Turbo Model (OpenAI on X)
New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art (theguardian.com)
Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; With Native Audio Understanding and More (google.com)
Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open source LLM is coming in the next month (techcrunch.com)
Apple Vision Pro brings a new era of spatial computing to business (apple.com)
Google Cloud Next 2024: Gemini and generative AI updates (google.com)
Gemini for Google Cloud is here ( google.com)
CodeGemma – an official Google release for code LLMs (huggingface.co)

Introducing Stable LM 2 12B (stability.ai)
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (theverge.com)
Prime Minister of Canada on Securing Canada’s AI advantage (pm.gc.ca)
Elon Musk predicts AI will be smarter than the smartest human next year (reuters.com)
Spotify Premium Users Can Now Turn Any Idea Into a Personalized Playlist With AI Playlist in Beta (newsroom.spotify.com)
AI Is Now Analyzing Your Garbage to Reduce Food Waste (businessinsider.com)
Elon Musk says Tesla will reveal its robotaxi on August 8th (theverge.com)
Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London (blogs.microsoft.com)

YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more (techcrunch.com)
Apple Reportedly Developing Robots That’ll Roam Your Home (cnet.com)
Our Approach to Labeling AI-Generated Content and Manipulated Media (about.fb.com)

The Circle’ season 6 cast revealed, including an A.I. catfish (ew.com)
Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models (press.opera.com)
Amazon’s Just Walk Out Actually Uses 1,000 People in India (businessinsider.com)
George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit over comedian’s AI doppelganger (theguardian.com)
Tech Giants Rally to Combat AI-Driven Job Losses (techtimes.com)
Meet Storyblocks’ new AI powered search engine (storyblocks.com)
Waymo vehicles now delivering Uber eats in Phoenix (telematicswire.net)
Introducing improvements to the fine-tuning API and expanding our custom models program (openai.com)

Apple’s ReALM AI model can ‘see’ and understand screen context; ‘substantially outperformed’ GPT-4 (mspoweruser.com)
Humane, Rabbit, Brilliant, Meta: the AI gadgets are here (theverge.com)
Introducing Stable Audio 2.0 (With longer outputs and audio-to-audio) (stability.ai)
Bhavish Aggarwal teases Ola Solo, world’s first self-driven electric scooter (indiatimes.com)

Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AI (techcrunch.com)
Now Apple Vision Pro Personas can float freely across different apps (theverge.com)
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News (theverge.com)

Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show (youtube.com)
 You can now edit images you create with DALL·E (openai.com)
 Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says (reuters.com)
 Start using ChatGPT instantly (openai.com)

Every US federal agency must hire a chief AI officer (theverge.com)
Microsoft Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs (engadget.com)
Announcing Grok-1.5 (x.ai)
NYC will test AI gun detectors on the subway (theverge.com)
Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices (openai.com)

Amazon spends $2.7B on startup Anthropic in largest venture investment (cnbc.com)
“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again. (forbes.com)
ElevenLabs gives lifelike voice to rabbit’s r1 device (elevenlabs.io)

Adobe launches new AI tools and Microsoft partnership (qz.com)
Google’s new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams (bleepingcomputer.com)
OpenAI has new features in the pipeline for GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 (the-decoder.com)
WWDC 2024 will show off Apple’s AI efforts on June 10 (appleinsider.com)
Hot AI Job Market Means Meta Is Offering Jobs Without Interviews, Zuck Emailing Candidates Himself (inc.com)
Adobe Summit Opening Keynote 2024 (youtube.com)
Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week (techcrunch.com)
Airtable brings AI summarization to paying users (theverge.com)

OpenAI wants Hollywood to use Sora (bensbites)
Introducing Stable Code Instruct 3B (stability.ai)
Sora: First Impressions (openai.com)

Emad Mostaque Resigns as CEO of Stability AI and Steps Down From The Board (stability.ai)

Tennessee becomes the first state to protect artists against AI (npr.org)

Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Surface Devices and Copilot for Windows (microsoft.com)

Unitree’s robot is the first humanoid to do a backflip without hydraulics (reddit.com)
OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam (techcrunch.com)
Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI As Company Flounders (forbes.com)

Introducing Stable Video 3D: Quality Novel View Synthesis and 3D Generation from Single Images (stability.ai)
Everything Just Announced at Google’s AI Health Event (cnet.com)
Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot (blogs.microsoft.com)

Nvidia enlists humanoid robotics’ biggest names for new AI platform, GR00T (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia’s newest cloud service promises to accelerate quantum computing simulations (siliconangle.com)
Nvidia announces Earth-2 digital twin to forecast planet’s climate change (venturebeat.com)
Nvidia unveils next-gen Blackwell GPUs with 25X lower costs and energy consumption (venturebeat.com)
Sam Altman on Lex Fridman Podcast: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI (youtube.com)
Hey YouTube creators, it’s time to start labeling AI-generated content in your videos (cnn.com)
Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can bring still photos to life (venturebeat.com)
‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says (blogs.nvidia.com)

Open Release of Grok-1 (x.ai)

Apple buys startup DarwinAI, adds staff to its AI division (reuters.com)
FTC inquires about Reddit’s AI deals, ahead of IPO (axios.com)
Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks (theverge.com)

Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini (semafor.com)
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability (venturebeat.com)
OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator will be publicly available later this year (theverge.com)
SIMA generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (deepmind.google)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Now Gets a Humanoid Body (analyticsindiamag.com)

World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (cnbc.com)

Google won’t let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June (the-decoder.com)
Deepgram’s Aura gives AI agents a voice (techcrunch.com)
Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images (arstechnica.com)

LLMs surpass humans in predicting which neuroscience experiments will succeed (81% vs 64%) (aimodels.substack.com)
Apple hinted at big AI plans. Here’s what AppleGPT might entail (fastcompany.com)

Review completed & Altman, Brockman to continue to lead OpenAI (openai.com)
OpenAI announces new members to board of directors (openai.com)
Biden Calls for Ban on AI Voice Impersonations in State of the Union (variety.com)

Inflection-2.5: meet the world’s best personal AI (inflection.ai)

Microsoft invokes VCRs in motion to dismiss The New York Times’ AI lawsuit (theverge.com)
US army experimenting with generative AI chatbots in war games: Report (indianexpress.com)
D.C. advocacy group builds on Biden’s approach to regulating AI (axios.com)

OpenAI and Elon Musk (openai.com)
Perplexity Poised To Become Latest AI Startup To Hit Unicorn Status (news.crunchbase.com)
Competition in AI video generation heats up as DeepMind alums unveil Haiper (techcrunch.com)

Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images (stability.ai)
AI tool predicts kidney failure six times faster than human expert analysts (medicalxpress.com)
OpenAI adds ‘Read Aloud’ voiceover to ChatGPT (venturebeat.com)
Introducing the next generation of Claude (anthropic.com)

California gives Waymo the green light to expand robotaxi operations (theverge.com)

AI chip startup Groq acquires Definitive Intelligence to scale its cloud platform (siliconangle.com)
Huge funding round makes “Figure” Big Tech’s favorite humanoid robot company (arstechnica.com)
Motorola teases first AI-powered Android phone to challenge Samsung’s AI throne (androidcentral.com)
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of nonprofit AI mission (techcrunch.com)

Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance (blogs.microsoft.com)
Microsoft is working with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to improve upscaling support in PC games (theverge.com)
Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud (techcrunch.com)

Tim Cook says Apple will ‘break new ground’ in GenAI this year (techcrunch.com)
Stability AI partners with Morph Studio for an improved AI video creation workflow (Morph Studio on X)
Alibaba Group releases EMO Research for expressive audio-to-video face portraits (humanaigc on GitHub)
Ideogram introduces Ideogram 1.0 with better realism, prompt adherence, and text input (Ideogram on X)
Klarna CEO Boasts His AI Can Do Work of 700 People After Laying Off 700 People in 2022 (gizmodo.com)
RIP to the Apple Car, we hardly knew ye (theverge.com)
Adobe reveals a GenAI tool for music (techcrunch.com)
Meta’s Zuckerberg discusses mixed reality devices, AI with LG leaders in South Korea (reuters.com)

Pika Labs gives more control over AI-generated videos with new Lip Sync Feature (Pika on X)
OpenAI claims the Times cheated to get ChatGPT to regurgitate articles (theverge.com)
Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report (theverge.com)
New in Superhuman AI: Instant Reply (superhuman.com)
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available (github.blog)

Bezos, Nvidia join OpenAI in funding humanoid robot startup, Bloomberg reports (reuters.com)
Google DeepMind Unveils AI ‘Genie’ to Instantly Conjure Playable Games (decrypt.co)
MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including a Samsung smart ring, Google AI features (techcrunch.com)
Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical-image diversity issue within weeks (techcrunch.com)
Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI (azure.microsoft.com)

What happened with Gemini image generation (google)
ElevenLabs partners with Perplexity to launch Discover Daily (elevenlabs.io)

OpenAI rolls out new updates to GPT Store including feedback and ratings (OpenAI on X)
Suno Text-To-Song Generator Announces Version 3 Alpha (Suno on X)
ElevenLabs is one the companies accepted into Disney’s Accelerator Program (ElevenLabs on X)
Microsoft is getting an AI eraser for the Photos app in Windows 10 and 11 (theverge.com)
Jasper Expands by Acquiring Image Platform Clipdrop from Stability AI (prnewswire.com)
The Justice Department gets a chief AI officer (theverge.com)
Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator Accused of Being ‘Anti-White’ (petapixel.com)
Google expands partnership with Reddit (google)
Google Chrome introduces experimental AI writing feature (google)
The Disney Accelerator Program Invests Heavily in AI Companies This Year (thewaltdisneycompany.com)
Stable Diffusion 3 — Stability AI (stability.ai)

Microsoft admits that OpenAI’s Sora will come to Copilot (mspoweruser.com)
Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety (techcrunch.com)
Match Group inks deal with OpenAI, says press release written by ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
AI Isn’t Driving Tech Layoffs — and It’s Time to Change the Narrative (businessinsider.com)
Google One AI Premium: Gemini access in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and more (google)
Gemma: Google introduces new state-of-the-art open models (google)
Adobe launched an AI chatbot in beta for Acrobat to make navigating long documents easier (adobe.com)

MidJourney might be teaming up with X According To This X Post (DogeDesigner on X)
Adobe has created a new 50-person AI research org called CAVA (Gautham Mysore on LinkedIn)
Meet ‘Groq,’ the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Musk’s Grok in the Dust (gizmodo.com)
Will Smith Breaks the Internet with AI-Generated Spaghetti Video Parody (techtimes.com)
AI Crypto Assets Skyrocket With Over $10 Billion Added to the Sector in 17 Days (news.bitcoin.com)
Let’s build the GPT Tokenizer (Andrej Karpathy on YouTube)

AI Sound Effects are coming soon (elevenlabs.io)
Introducing OpusClip 3.0. The smartest AI video clipping tool just got smarter (OpusClip on X)

Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million dollar licensing deal to train AI models | Mashable (mashable.com)
How ElevenLabs is Preparing for Elections in 2024 (elevenlabs.io)

Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode (theverge.com)
Tech companies sign pact to combat AI-generated election deepfakes (apnews.com)
Judge Dismisses Nearly All Of Sarah Silverman And Other Authors’ Lawsuits Against OpenAI (techdirt.com)

V-JEPA: The next step toward advanced machine intelligence (ai.meta.com)
OpenAI Shows Off Their New Text-To-Video Model That Does 60-Second Videos (openai.com)
Introducing Gemini 1.5, Google’s next-generation AI model (google)

X to feature Grok generated Summaries of Trending topics (xDaily on X)
Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’ (techcrunch.com)
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo (techcrunch.com)
Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI (microsoft.com)
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors (openai.com)

Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, has departed the ChatGPT creator (The Information on X)
Chat with RTX Now Free to Download (blogs.nvidia.com)
Introducing Stable Cascade From Stability AI (stability.ai)
Eleven Labs Now Allows You To Earn Money If You Share Your Voice (elevenlabs.io)
The way AI will be sold to a skeptical public is becoming clear (cnbc.com)
OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous (apnews.com)
Google Uses AI To Detect Fake Online Reviews Faster (searchenginejournal.com)
Memory and new controls for ChatGPT (openai.com)

Nearly Half (45%) of All Men Plan to Use AI to Compose Valentine’s Day Missives (tvtechnology.com)
3 big AI trends to watch in 2024 (news.microsoft.com)
NVIDIA CEO: Every Country Needs Sovereign AI (blogs.nvidia.com)
US Patent Office: AI is all well and good, but only humans can patent things (techcrunch.com)

Disney Tests AI Tool Matching Commercials to Appropriate Content (pymnts.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly seeks trillions of dollars for AI chip project (cnbc.com)
These Frame smart glasses promise ‘AI superpowers’ for $349 (theverge.com)
Perplexity partners with Vercel, opening AI search to developer apps (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft hints at the future of AI in Windows with a smarter Copilot (theverge.com)

You Can Now Generate Images on The MidJourney Website (If You’ve Made 1,000+ Images Already) (MidJourney on X)
These AI glasses are being backed by the Pokemon Go CEO (androidcentral.com)
OpenAI reportedly working on next big product: A ChatGPT that can use devices (cointelegraph.com)
The FCC bans robocalls with AI-generated voices (theverge.com)
OpenAI forms a new team to study child safety (openai.com)
Google Gemini update: Sundar Pichai introduces Ultra 1.0 in Gemini Advanced (google)

Delivering Copilot for everyone (blogs.microsoft.com)
Microsoft brings AI image editing to Copilot, unveils Deucalion (venturebeat.com)
How to keep your art out of AI generators (theverge.com)
Ray-Ban Meta glasses get camera, audio fixes in v2 update (digitaltrends.com)
Microsoft’s next big AI push is here after a year of Bing  (theverge.com)
Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI (venturebeat.com)

Letter from the YouTube CEO: 4 Big bets for 2024 (Spoiler: AI is high on the list) (youtube)
IKEA launches new AI-powered assistant in OpenAI GPT Store (ingka.com)
OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (help.openai.com)
Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (about.fb.com)
Roblox introduces AI powered chat translator supporting 16 languages (pocketgamer.biz)
Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos (venturebeat.com)

New Version of Google Gemini Supposedly Launching Feb. 8th (Dylan Roussel on X)
Microsoft Forms AI Partnership With News Startup Semafor (pymnts.com)
Google may soon rebrand its AI chatbot Bard as Gemini (businesstoday.in)
AI Churning Out Highly Convincing Fake IDs (Joseph Cox on X)
AI helps scholars read scroll buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD79 (theguardian.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
UK gov’t touts $100M+ plan to fire up ‘responsible’ AI R&D (techcrunch.com)

Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs (venturebeat.com)
Adobe’s Firefly AI Launches in Apple Vision Pro with Exclusive Features (techtimes.com)
Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app (techcrunch.com)
Create images with Adobe Firefly AI for Apple Vision Pro (appleinsider.com)

Tim Cook confirms Apple’s generative AI features are coming ‘later this year’ (theverge.com)
Bard generates photos now, finally (theverge.com)
Google Maps is getting ‘supercharged’ with generative AI (theverge.com)
The Arc browser is getting AI-powered Live Folders and Instant Links (theverge.com)
Google releases GenAI tools for music creation (techcrunch.com)
Apple announces more than 600 new apps built for Apple Vision Pro (apple.com)

Microsoft, OpenAI in Talks to Fund Figure AI’s Humanoid Robots (analyticsindiamag.com)
FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls (techcrunch.com)
How Guns N’ Roses Used AI to Create Wild New Music Video ‘The General’ (decrypt.co)
Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance (venturebeat.com)
The Pixel 8 is getting Google’s new AI search feature today (theverge.com)
Shopify’s ‘Magic’ AI image editor can make any product pics look professional
(theverge.com)

Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans (eurekalert.org)
V6 of Niji-Journey is now live in MidJourney (MidJourney on X)
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications (vitalik.eth.limo)
China’s most valuable company pivoting to AI as gaming profits falter (cointelegraph.com)
ChatGPT users can now invoke GPTs directly in chats (techcrunch.com)
Yelp will use AI to tell you if that burger’s any good (theverge.com)
The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom (theverge.com)

Meta Releases “More Performant” Code Llama 70B (Meta on Twitter)
Arc Search: a new iPhone app combining browser, search, and AI (theverge.com)

Brave Leo, the AI browser assistant, now features Mixtral for improved performance (brave.com)
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 skips Google Gemini for Baidu’s AI ‘Ernie’ in China (androidcentral.com)

Apple Podcasts offers transcripts for all shows in iOS 17.4 (appleinsider.com)
AI and crypto mining are driving up data centers’ energy use (theverge.com)
New embedding models and API updates (openai.com)
Hugging Face and Google partner for open AI collaboration (huggingface.co)

Art Selfie is back, this time with generative AI (google)

OpenAI plans to set up chip factories worth $100 billion: Report (networkworld.com)
Fake Biden New Hampshire robocall most likely AI-generated (nbcnews.com)
Introducing Dubbing Studio (elevenlabs.io)
3 new generative AI features coming to Google Chrome (google)
Gemini-powered chat comes to Google Ads (google)

ElevenLabs Releases New Voice AI Products and Raises $80M Series B (elevenlabs.io)

AI-poisoning tool Nightshade now available for artists to use (venturebeat.com)

Mark Zuckerberg Confirms Meta is Currently Training Llama 3 (Zuck on Instagram)
Rabbit’s R1 AI gadget will use Perplexity for up-to-date search results (theverge.com)
Runway Introduces Multi Motion Brush To Animate Different Areas of Videos (Runway on X)
OpenAI announces first partnership with a university (cnbc.com)
Meta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence (theverge.com)
Unlocking productivity and personalizing learning with AI (educationmicrosoft.com)

MidJourney Office Hours Call Recap For January 17th, 2024 (Alie Jules on X)
Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems (technologyreview.com)
AI can now copy your handwriting — should we be concerned? (mashable.com)
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 and AI event: all the news (theverge.com)
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will evolve in “uncomfortable” ways (axios.com)
Amazon launches generative AI tool to answer shoppers’ questions (cnbc.com)
Vay launches teledriving car service in Las Vegas (venturebeat.com)
Amazon’s latest Fire TVs can now use AI to generate custom art backgrounds (theverge.com)
The power of Google AI comes to the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series (google)

A Flaw in Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data (Wired.com)
Adobe’s latest Premiere Pro update automatically cleans up trashy audio (theverge.com)
Democratic inputs to AI grant program: lessons learned and implementation plans (openai.com)
New study by Anthropic shows AI models can learn to deceive humans (aibeat.co)

Tesla Optimus Bot Can Fold Shirts (But Not Fully Autonomously Yet) (Elon Musk on X)
How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections (openai.com)
Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to consumers (theverge.com)

At CES, everything was AI, even when it wasn’t (theverge.com)

OpenAI changes policy to allow military applications (techcrunch.com)
Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app (theverge.com)
NVIDIA CEO Discusses Future of AI-Accelerated Healthcare (blogs.nvidia.com)

New Samsung AI Fridge Tells You What’s Inside and What You Can Make With It (cnet.com)
Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple to become the world’s most valuable company again (theverge.com)

Biggest Trends of CES 2024: AI, Transparent Screens and Off-Grid Tech to Power Your Home – CNET (cnet.com)
Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI (theverge.com)
Introducing the GPT Store (openai.com)
Introducing ChatGPT Team (openai.com)

SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES  (sagaftra.org)
Getty Images launches a new GenAI service for iStock customers (techcrunch.com)
The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you (theverge.com)

Samsung AI at CES 2024: From AI in TVs to vacuum cleaners, here’s what’s new (businesstoday.in)
CES 2024: Invoxia Launches AI Wearable That Monitors Your Pet’s Health (macrumors.com)
CES 2024: This ‘MagicMirror’ Analyzes Facial Blood Flow to Monitor Vital Signs (macrumors.com)
Sony teased a ‘spatial’ VR headset with a smart control ring (theverge.com)
LG keynote at CES 2024 in 10 minutes: Announcing the world’s first wireless transparent OLED TV (Engadget on YouTube)
NVIDIA Special Address at CES 2024 (NVIDIA on YouTube)
Advancing AI PCs in 2024 with AMD (AMD on YouTube)
McAfee unveils AI tool to combat deepfake audio scams (appleinsider.com)
Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations’ (theverge.com)
BMW turns inward for CES, announcing new gaming, streaming, AR, and AI features (theverge.com)
NVIDIA Reveals Gaming, Creating, Generative AI, Robotics Innovations at CES (blogs.nvidia.com)
OpenAI and journalism (openai.com)
Getty Images Releases Generative AI By iStock Powered by NVIDIA Picasso (blogs.nvidia.com)
The Future of AI PCs Gets Even Better with AMD (amd.com)
Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 (apple.com)

Microsoft Picks Dee Templeton as OpenAI Board Observer (finance.yahoo.com)

New Version of Siri With Generative AI Again Rumored for WWDC (macrumors.com)
CES 2024: ‘AI Is The Story Of The Show (investors.com)
OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year (theverge.com)
ChatGPT’s “GPT Store” To Launch Next Week (Shubham Saboo on X)
Hasbro Launches AI-Powered Version Of Trivial Pursuit Game (forbes.com)
Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for (theverge.com)
Shaping the future of advanced robotics (deepmind.google)
Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs (blogs.windows.com)
Futureverse, Ready Player One Launch ‘Readyverse Studios’ for Top IP in Metaverse (prnewswire.com)

Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked event promises AI phones (cnbc.com)
Intel spins out a new enterprise-focused GenAI software company (techcrunch.com)
DeWave: Watch mind reading AI translate thoughts to text (readwrite.com)
2023 Supreme Court Year-End Report (Including How AI Should Be Handled) (supremecourt.gov)
The State of Mozilla: 2022 — 2023 Annual Report (stateof.mozilla.org)
How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now (theverge.com)

Jellypipe Unveils AI Assistant for 3D Printing: Optimizing Material Selection and Pricing with GPT-4 (fabbaloo.com)
Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too – Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)

Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI (euronews.com)

Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech (asia.nikkei.com)
GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals (github.blog)

Midjourney starts training video models in January, v6 updates coming soon (the-decoder.com)
The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win (techdirt.com)
Amazon Tech Guru: AI to Become “Culturally Aware”(financemagnates.com)

Samsung’s new AI-enabled smart fridge can design recipes for you (theverge.com)
The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement (theverge.com)

Pika Labs’ text-to-video AI platform opens to all: Here’s how to use it (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft Copilot is now available as a ChatGPT-like app on Android (theverge.com)

Leonardo AI releases new feature to convert images into motion videos (testingcatalog.com)

Apple shares ‘Ferret’ as open source machine learning model (appleinsider.com)

AI discovers new class of antibiotics to kill drug-resistant bacteria | New Scientist newscientist.com
AI Industry Analysis: 50 Most Visited AI Tools and Their 24B+ Traffic Behavior – WriterBuddy
writerbuddy.ai
New AI model can predict human lifespan, researchers say. They want to make sure it’s used for good phys.org

AI companies would be required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill
theverge.com
Apple reportedly wants to use the news to help train its AI models theverge.com

MidJourney Version 6 is Now Live Alie Jules on X
OpenAI announces new feature for ChatGPT, users get the option to archive their chats
businesstoday.in
Google has introduced Video POET breaking new ground in coherent video generation gizmochina.com

Apple Optimizes LLMs for Edge Use Cases (analyticsindiamag.com)
Airbnb using AI to help clampdown on New Year’s Eve parties globally (news.airbnb.com)
Google makes a preemptive move for the 2024 election, will limit election-related queries with generative AI (androidcentral.com)
I’d Buy That for a Dollar: Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue (gizmodo.com)
Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards (ftc.gov)
UK Supreme Court rules AI is not an inventor (theverge.com)

The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024 (gatesnotes.com)
Anthropic \ Expanded legal protections and improvements to our API (anthropic.com)
Democratizing access to AI-enabled coding with Colab (google)
OpenAI buffs safety team and gives board veto power on risky AI | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jailed Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan campaigns with AI voice clone – The Verge (theverge.com)
Turn your ideas into songs with Suno on Microsoft Copilot (blogs.bing.com)

OpenAI Releases A Guide To Prompt Engineering (openai.com)
Degrees Are Becoming Less Important As AI Spreads, a LinkedIn VP Says (businessinsider.com)

Grimes has a new line of AI plush toys, including one named Grok (theverge.com)

Instagram introduces GenAI powered background editing tool (techcrunch.com)
Axel Springer and OpenAI partner to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism (axelspringer.com)
Introducing the Stability AI Membership (stability.ai)
H&R Block launches AI tax filing assistant (theverge.com)
Superalignment Fast Grants (openai.com)

Sam Altman on OpenAI and Artificial General Intelligence (time.com)
Google’s new AI tool ‘MusicFX’ composes music with just a few words (venturebeat.com)
Google debuts Imagen 2 with text and logo generation (techcrunch.com)
Google: Gemini API, Imagen 2, Duet AI and more updates (google)
Google Gemini API: New developer and enterprise AI products (google)
Navigating the AI Revolution: 7 Essential Insights for Marketers in 2024 [Expert Opinions] (hubspot.com)
ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Have Been Turned Back On (Sam Altman on X)
Introducing Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images (stability.ai)

You Can Now Generate Images Directly on MidJourney’s Website (If You’ve Generated Over 10k Images Already) (Nick St. Pierre on X)
Anthropic Releases Claude For Google Sheets (Anthropic.com)
Tesla Shows Off New Optimus Robot (Tesla Optimus on X)
Snapchat now lets subscribers share AI-generated snaps (theverge.com)
Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Added AI That Can See What You’re Seeing (cnet.com)
Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models (microsoft.com)
The US government plans to go all-in on using AI. But it lacks a plan, says a government watchdog (cnn.com)

YouTuber Recreates “Faked” Gemini Demo Using GPT-4 Vision (YouTube.com)
Is ChatGPT Getting Lazy Because It’s Winter? (Ethan Mollick on X)
The Secret Behind AI Drive-Thrus? It’s Humans Doing the Work .(gizmodo.com)
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment might merit a closer look (theregister.com)
You Can Now Try Audiobox, Meta’s New Foundation Audio Model (x.com)
AFL-CIO and Microsoft announce new tech-labor partnership on AI and the future of the workforce (news.microsoft.com)
Grok Responds As OpenAI When Pushed About Policy (x.com)

Europe reaches deal on world’s first comprehensive AI rules (apnews.com)
An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines (theverge.com)
NotebookLM launches in the U.S. with new features (google)

Google’s best Gemini demo was faked (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grok Chatbot to X Premium+ Subscribers (techtimes.com)
Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M (techcrunch.com)
CEO of the Year 2023: Sam Altman (time.com)
Introducing StableLM Zephyr 3B: A New Addition to StableLM, Bringing Powerful LLM Assistants to Edge Devices (stability.ai)
AMD releases new chips to power faster AI training (theverge.com)
McDonald’s and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership (corporate.mcdonalds.com)
Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development (about.fb.com)

Meta launches a standalone AI-powered image generator (techcrunch.com)
Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s AI Startup Files With SEC To Raise Up To $1 Billion In Equity Offering (digitalinformationworld.com)
Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework (theverge.com)
What’s New Across Our AI Experiences (about.fb.com)
Google Bard: How to try the new Gemini AI model (google)
Introducing Gemini: Google’s most capable AI model yet (google)

Alibaba’s ‘Animate Anyone’ Is Trained on Scraped Videos of Famous TikTokers (404media.co)
AI-generated Jimmy Stewart will narrate a new It’s a Wonderful Life story (theverge.com)
Introducing Deep Search From Bing (blogs.bing.com)
Celebrating the first year of Copilot with significant new innovations (blogs.microsoft.com)
Playground v2: A new leap in creativity (playgroundai.com)

Introducing the AI Alliance (ai.meta.com)
Gmail’s spam detection has received its ‘largest defense upgrades (9to5google.com)
Runway partners with Getty Images to build enterprise ready AI tools (runwayml.com)
OpenAI COO thinks AI for business is overhyped (theverge.com)
Getty lawsuit against Stability AI to go to trial in the UK (theverge.com)

OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (wired.com)

Leonardo Launches New “Live Canvas” Feature (x.com)
More camera moves. More control. Now in Gen-2. (x.com)
OpenAI’s GPT store delayed to 2024 (theverge.com)

Ideogram Launches New Image Prompting Feature For Plus Subscribers (x.com)
Chinese Court’s Landmark Ruling: AI Images Can be Copyrighted (aibusiness.com)
ChatGPT turns 1: Here are all the fun ways you can use OpenAI’s popular chatbot (businesstoday.in)
Introducing a suite of AI language translation models that preserve expression and improve streaming (ai.meta.com)
Audiobox: Generating audio from voice and natural language prompts (ai.meta.com)

KREA AI Rolls Out New “Upscale and Enhance” Feature (x.com)
An AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them (wired.com)
Stability AI explores a sale as investors pressure CEO to resign (fortune.com)
AI Video Startup HeyGen Launches Near-Instant Avatar Generator, Adds $5.6 Million In Funding (forbes.com)
Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO (theverge.com)
Amazon joins AI image creation fray with new model (theverge.com)
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (openai.com)

Introducing SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model (stability.ai)
Microsoft Paint’s DALL-E 3 integration is rolling out on Windows 11 (windowslatest.com)
AWS-Announces-Amazon-Q-to-Reimagine-the-Future-of-Work (press.aboutamazon.com)
US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI ‘secure by design (reuters.com)
Amazon is using AI to make holiday shopping even more convenient (aboutamazon.com)
Pika, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M (techcrunch.com)
ElevenLabs is Now Offering Grants to Startups (elevenlabs.io)
NVIDIA BioNeMo Enables Generative AI for Drug Discovery on AWS (blogs.nvidia.com)
NVIDIA GPUs on AWS to Offer 2x Simulation Leap in Omniverse Isaac Sim, Accelerating Smarter Robots (blogs.nvidia.com)
Pika Labs Announces Pika 1.0 (It Looks Amazing) (x.com)

Intuit Adds Generative AI-Powered Tax Prep to TurboTax (pymnts.com)
AWS’ transcription platform is now powered by generative AI – The Verge (theverge.com)
GPT-4’s potential in shaping the future of radiology – Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)

Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate decisions on lethal autonomous weapons (apnews.com)

OpenAI letter may have led to Sam Altman’s departure (smh.com.au)

Speech to Speech & Product Update (elevenlabs.io)
Google Meet can now detect when you raise your hand IRL (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk says xAI’s chatbot ‘Grok’ will launch to X Premium+ subscribers next week (techcrunch.com)
Google’s Bard YouTube extension just got a lot smarter (theverge.com)
Amid OpenAI Chaos, Rival Inflection AI Releases Model On GPT-4’s Heels (forbes.com)
Large-scale pancreatic cancer detection via non-contrast CT and deep learning (nature.com)

Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta (hollywoodreporter.com)
Sam Altman returns as CEO OpenAI (theverge.com)
OpenAI drops a big new ChatGPT feature with a joke about its CEO drama (theverge.com)
Researchers develop AI-powered model to predict stock market trends (techxplore.com)
OpenAI’s board may be coming around to Sam Altman returning (techcrunch.com)
Mustafa Suleyman Tells OpenAI Staff ‘Come Run With Us’ (businessinsider.com)
Microsoft releases Orca 2, a pair of small language models that outperform larger counterparts (venturebeat.com)
Introducing Stable Video Diffusion (stability.ai)
Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation (cnbc.com)
Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app (techcrunch.com)
Introducing more control, fidelity and expressibility. (research.runwayml.com)
Anthropic \ Introducing Claude 2.1 (anthropic.com)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change (cnbc.com)

Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ‘Disney’ After Viral Movie Poster Trend (petapixel.com)
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI group (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI Employees, Including Ilya Sutskever, sign petition to oust board (x.com)
Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (theverge.com)
OpenAI’s new CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear (theverge.com)
Sam Altman will not be returning to OpenAI (theverge.com)

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team – The Verge (theverge.com)
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (theverge.com)
OpenAI Researchers Resign Following Sam Altman’s Dismissal: Report (businessinsider.com)

Greg Brockman, President of OpenAI, follows Sam Altman and quits OpenAI (x.com)
OpenAI announces leadership transition (Sam Altman was Fired) (openai.com)
Google Delays Release of Gemini AI That Aims to Compete With OpenAI (gizmodo.com)
Amazon lays off hundreds from Alexa unit amid generative AI refocus (siliconangle.com)
Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot Clyde (theverge.com)
AI to See “Major Second Wave,” NVIDIA CEO Says in Fireside Chat With iliad Group Exec (blogs.nvidia.com)

Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU (zdnet.com)
Google will responsibly expand Bard access to teenagers around the world (google)
Adobe is using AI to break apart messy audio (theverge.com)
Emu Video and Emu Edit: Our latest generative AI research milestones (ai.meta.com)
An early look at our AI Music experiment (youtube)
Transforming the future of music creation (deepmind.google)

Popular AI video tool, Deforum, launches Discord bot to make generating videos even easier (x.com)
Tap into the latest features from YouTube Premium (YouTube)
Microsoft launches a deepfakes creator (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft’s Copilot AI gets more personalized in its first update since launch (theverge.com)
Bing Chat is now Microsoft Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT (theverge.com)
OpenAI puts pause on new ChatGPT Plus signups due to overwhelming demand (x.com)

OpenAI is building next-generation AI GPT-5 — and CEO claims it could be superintelligent  (tomsguide.com)
You.com launches new APIs to connect LLMs to the web (techcrunch.com)
How does Bumble plan to use AI (fastcompany.com)
Andreessen Horowitz backs Civitai, a generative AI content marketplace with millions of users (techcrunch.com)
YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians (theverge.com)
NVIDIA Supercharges Hopper, the World’s Leading AI Computing Platform (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Google fights scammers using Bard hype to spread malware (theverge.com)
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting (deepmind.google)

OpenAI’s six-member board will decide ‘when we’ve attained AGI’ (venturebeat.com)

Sam Altman Roasts Elon Musk’s Grok AI: ‘Cringey Boomer Humor’ (businessinsider.com)

Polycam releases “floater-free” gaussian splatting (x.com)
OpenAI Data Partnerships (openai.com)
Amazon Is Working on a New AI Model: Report (businessinsider.com)
Samsung made its own generative AI model (engadget.com)
ChatGPT Blames Outages on DDoS Hackers, GPT Rollout Stalled (gizmodo.com)
Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable (theverge.com)
ElevenLabs Turbo v2 is Here! (elevenlabs.io)

SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios reach a deal that could end the strike (theverge.com)
YouTube generative AI will soon let you have a conversation about video you’ve just watched (gizmochina.com)
Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models (techcrunch.com)
Generative AI in Search expands to more than 120 new countries and territories (google)
FTC takes shots at AI in rare filing to US Copyright Office (venturebeat.com)
ChatGPT is back online after a 90-minute ‘major’ OpenAI outage (theverge.com)
Meta partners with Hugging Face & Scaleway to Support Open Source (about.fb.com)
Introducing AI-powered application security testing with GitHub Advanced Security (github.blog)

Figma’s new FigJam AI can spare designers from boring planning prep (theverge.com)
SAG strike negotiations have once again dissolved over the use of AI (theverge.com)
Former Myspace founders introduce a text-to-video generator that uses your selfie to personalize content (techcrunch.com)
Get creative with generative AI in Performance Max (google)

China-U.S. AI Arms Race Heats Up as Chinese Startup Unveils Powerful New AI (vice.com)
Tesla to integrate Elon Musk’s new AI assistant in its vehicles | Electrek (electrek.co)
YouTube to test generative AI features, including a comments summarizer and conversational tool  (techcrunch.com)
Xbox and Inworld AI partner to empower game creators with the potential of Generative AI (developer.microsoft.com)
Introducing GPTs (openai.com)
New models and developer products announced at DevDay (openai.com)

Musk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok  (techcrunch.com)

Elon Musk says xAI to start offering ‘best’ AI to select users (venturebeat.com)

Runway ML Makes Huge Updates To The Quality of It’s Gen-2 Generations (x.om)
Kaiber Releases a New Mobile App on iOS and Android (x.com)
Luma Releases a Beta Preview of Their New Text-To-3D Model In Discord (x.com)
AI named word of the year by Collins Dictionary (bbc.com)
Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5-like speed and 16k context (phind.com)
Doritos devises AI-powered ‘crunch-cancellation’ tech for gamers (marketingdive.com)
Brave rivals Bing and ChatGPT with new privacy-focused AI chatbot (theverge.com)
Google AI Chief Says There’s a 50% Chance We’ll Hit AGI in Just 5 Years (futurism.com)
MidJourney Releases New Functionality Called “Style Tuner” (x.com)

Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (theverge.com)
Exclusive: Stability AI brings advanced 3D and image fine-tuning to Stable Diffusion (venturebeat.com)
New Text-to-3D Generative AI Solution From a Chinese Developer (80.lv)
The Beatles – Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song (Short Film) (youtube.com)
Politicians commit to collaborate to tackle AI safety, US launches safety institute (techcrunch.com)
Google launches generative AI tools for product imagery to US advertisers and merchants (techcrunch.com)
Instagram spotted developing a customizable ‘AI friend’ (techcrunch.com)
Turing’s Mill: AI Supercomputer Revs UK’s Economic Engine (blogs.nvidia.com)
Stability AI Previews Enhanced Image Offerings: APIs for Business & New Product Features (stability.ai)
Yan LeCun Warns: Open AI or Risk Corporate Monopoly on Knowledge (x.com)

Quora’s Poe introduces an AI chatbot creator economy (techcrunch.com)
Say what: AI can diagnose type 2 diabetes in 10 seconds from your voice (diabetes.co.uk)
A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold – Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
ElevenLabs Enterprise (elevenlabs.io)

Judge pares down artists’ AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI (reuters.com)
Apple Event – October 30 – New M3 Chips, New MacBooks, and New iMacs (youtube.com)
Meta’s AI research head wants open source licensing to change (theverge.com)
President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can look at uploaded files in the latest beta updates (theverge.com)

Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B) (app.twelvelabs.io)
Grammarly’s new generative AI feature learns your style — and applies it to any text (techcrunch.com)
Humane’s Ai Pin could cost $1,000 — and require a subscription (theverge.com)
Google Bard can now ‘respond in real time’ instead of waiting (9to5google.com)
Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to AI Startup Anthropic (wsj.com)
ChatGPT Maker Inks San Francisco’s Largest Lease Since 2018 (sfstandard.com)
Stability AI Participating in the UK Government’s AI Safety Summit (stability.ai)
Progress with our AI commitments: an update ahead of the UK AI Safety Summit (blogs.microsoft.com)

Waymo driverless vehicles are now available through Uber, starting first in Phoenix (techcrunch.com)
Forbes Launches New Generative AI Search Tool, Adelaide, Powered By Google Cloud (forbes.com)
Robots That Can Chat (bostondynamics.com)
After 40 years, the Beatles’ final song is finally debuting (theverge.com)
Rishi Sunak lays out vision for new global AI safety bodies (politico.eu)
Google Maps is becoming more like Search — thanks to AI (theverge.com)
Shutterstock Integrates Creative AI into Library to Offer Marketplace of Fully Customizable Stock (investor.shutterstock.com)
Scaling up learning across many different robot types (deepmind.google)
How Google is expanding its commitment to secure AI (google)
Frontier risk and preparedness (openai.com)

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (technologyreview.com)
Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better (indianexpress.com)
Google announces tools to help users fact check images (techcrunch.com)
Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and Open AI name first Executive Director of Frontier Model Forum (google)
Frontier Model Forum updates (openai.com)
NVIDIA Research Announces AI Advancements at NeurIPS (blogs.nvidia.com)
Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event introduces new AI capabilities (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI theverge.com
Lenovo details hybrid enterprise AI strategy, AI for PCs venturebeat.com
D-ID’s newest app uses AI to make videos from photographs techcrunch.com
Workers training AI demand protections from Congress theverge.com
How we’re using AI to help transform healthcare google

Meta chief AI scientist says AI won’t threaten humans cointelegraph.com
Microsoft CEO’s Annual Letter To Shareholders Focused Heavily on AI linkedin.com
Deep Learning Paves the Way to Safer Buildings blogs.nvidia.com
Researchers unveil ‘3D-GPT’, an AI that can generate 3D worlds from simple text commands venturebeat.com

YouTube is developing an AI tool that mimics famous musicians – (theverge.com)
Apple GPT: What We Know About Apple’s Work on Generative AI – MacRumors (macrumors.com)
Embodied AI: Toward effective collaboration between humans and socially intelligent robots (ai.meta.com)
Eureka! NVIDIA Research Breakthrough Puts New Spin on Robot Learning | NVIDIA Blog (blogs.nvidia.com)
Microsoft Security Copilot Early Access Program is now available | Microsoft Security Blog (microsoft.com)

OpenAI Scrapped AI Model Named After Dystopian Hellscape in ‘Dune’: Report (businessinsider.com)
Universal Music sues AI company Anthropic for distributing song lyrics –  (theverge.com)
DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise (openai.com)

Universal Music Group And Bandlab Technologies Announce Strategic AI Collaboration (universalmusic.com)
Midjourney’s first mobile app is here…sort of (venturebeat.com)
Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means to Have a Job (wsj.com)
Towards a Real-Time Decoding of Images from Brain Activity (ai.meta.com)

Descript’s big AI feature release: New AI voices and much more (descript.com)
NYC Mayor Eric Adams uses AI to make robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak (theverge.com)
Dubai Police to deploy driverless patrol cars with AI smarts (digitaltrends.com)
GPT-4 is Getting Faster (portkey.ai)
Baidu’s CEO says its ERNIE AI ‘is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4’ (au.finance.yahoo.com)

Pi From Inflection AI Can Now Search The Web (x.com)
Claude from Anthropic is Now Available in 95 Countries (x.com)
New York City Unveils New AI Plan to Improve Services (businessinsider.com)
Stack Overflow lays off over 100 people as the AI coding boom continues (theverge.com)
AI Could Cause a Financial Crash Within a Decade, SEC Head Says (markets.businessinsider.com)
Elevating Video Content: ElevenLabs Partners with Pictory AI (elevenlabs.io)

OpenAI quietly changed its ‘core values’ | Semafor (semafor.com)
NVIDIA & Masterpiece Studio Launch New Text-to-3D AI Playground (80.lv)

New Feature Announcement: Character Group Chat (character.ai)
Scientists develop AI tool that predicts virus mutations (news.harvard.edu)
A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI—With a Middle Finger (wired.com)
Google to defend generative AI users from copyright claims (reuters.com)
SAG-AFTRA Endorses No Fakes Act Presented to the U.S. Senate (gizmodo.com)
Exclusive: OpenAI plans major updates to lure developers with lower costs, sources say (reuters.com)
MAX Sneaks highlight several new generative AI capabilities across photo, video, audio, 3D and design (adobe.com)
How to use generative AI to create images and write first drafts (google)

Generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict (cnbc.com)
AMD to Acquire Open-Source AI Software Expert Nod.ai :: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (ir.amd.com)
Firefox Testing a New Feature to Weed Out Fake Customer Reviews (gizmodo.com)
Replit – Replit’s new AI Model now available on Hugging Face (replit.com)

The future is Firefly: Unlock new levels of creativity with the latest generative AI innovations (adobe.com)
Use Firefly’s Generative Match to generate images in your style (adobe.com)
Adobe created a symbol to encourage tagging AI-generated content -(theverge.com)
TikTok now supports direct posting from AI-powered Adobe apps, CapCut, Twitch and more  (techcrunch.com)
Adobe Firefly’s generative AI models can now create vector graphics in Illustrator (techcrunch.com)
AI Gets More Hype Than Deserved, Warren Buffett Business Partner Says (businessinsider.com)
How Google AI helps combat wildfires, floods, and extreme heat (google)
ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content (elevenlabs.io)

Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors (cnbc.com)
Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI (theverge.com)
Google Chrome’s organize tabs will automatically reorder tabs (bleepingcomputer.com)

OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips  (techcrunch.com)
We Weren’t Prepared for How Big ChatGPT Would Be, Says OpenAI CTO (businessinsider.com)
Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI (ai.meta.com)

Exclusive: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips  (reuters.com)

Microsoft to add DALL-E 3 to Bing Chat (theverge.com)
Google Pours AI Powers Into Its New Pixel Phone and Home Assistant – Decrypt (decrypt.co)
Meta’s AI Stickers Are Already Causing Trouble (gizmodo.com)
Generative AI features for ads coming to all advertisers | Meta for Business (facebook.com)
SoftBank CEO: AI Will Surpass Human Intelligence by 2030 (pymnts.com)
Google Assistant with Bard: New generative AI features (google)

Arc Max is the popular browser’s new suite of AI tools – (theverge.com)
Researchers Tested AI Watermarks—and Broke All of Them (wired.com)
Scaling up learning across many different robot types (deepmind.com)

Introducing The Rewind Pendan (rewind.ai)
Visa Launches $100 million Generative AI Ventures Initiative (visa.com)
Introducing Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance Language Models to Smart Devices (stability.ai)
Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities (google)

The Humane Ai Pin makes its debut on the runway at Paris Fashion Week (theverge.com)

Tim Cook confirms Apple is researching ChatGPT-style AI (appleinsider.com)

You Can Now Do Gaussian Splatting Using Polycam (x.com)
Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data  (theverge.com)
AWS announces general availability of Amazon Bedrock and more new generative AI innovations (aboutamazon.com)
Zapier launches Canvas, an AI-powered flowchart tool | (techcrunch.com)
Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers | (techcrunch.com)
Mayo Clinic to deploy and test Microsoft generative AI tools – (news.microsoft.com)

Leonardo AI Releases Elements, A Custom Implementation of LORAs (Leonardo AI)
Introducing the New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses (about.fb.com)
Introducing Social Profiles for Meta’s AIs (about.fb.com)
Introducing New AI Experiences Across Our Family of Apps and Devices | Meta (about.fb.com)
The Writers Guild of America’s strike is over – (theverge.com)
Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models (techcrunch.com)
Mark Zuckerberg to Talk AI Chatbots, Quest 3 at Meta Connect (businessinsider.com)
78% of Companies Say AI Created More Jobs (digitalinformationworld.com)
Microsoft and Mercy collaborate to empower clinicians to transform patient care with generative AI – Stories (news.microsoft.com)
Healthcare AI Startup Analyzes Cancer Cells in the Operating Room | NVIDIA Blog (blogs.nvidia.com)
Google.org announces $10 million in grants for robotics and AI education (google)

Google Search caught indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI (venturebeat.com)
WGA Strike: Hollywood Studios Can Train AI Models on Writers’ Work Under Tentative Deal (wsj.com)
How to get the latest Windows 11 innovations (blogs.windows.com)
macOS Sonoma is available today (apple.com)
The most personal Windows 11 experience begins rolling out today (blogs.windows.com)
John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence (globenewswire.com)
Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images (theverge.com)
A timeline of Google’s biggest AI and ML moments (google)

Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (theverge.com)
Anthropic \ Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon (anthropic.com)
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (openai.com)
Tesla’s Optimus robot can now sort objects autonomously (teslarati.com)
Meta could announce AI chatbots for young people on Instagram and Facebook soon  (theverge.com)

The Google Pixel 8’s latest leak shows off big AI camera updates (theverge.com)

AI is policing package theft for UPS as ‘porch piracy’ surge continues(cnbc.com)

Amazon leader says new Gen AI Alexa is a ‘super agent’(venturebeat.com)
YouTube to add AI creator tools to find music for videos, add dubs(techcrunch.com)
Made On YouTube: Empowering anyone to Create on YouTube(youtube)
Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion(news.microsoft.com)
New Surface devices bring more value to business(blogs.windows.com)

George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (theverge.com)
Amazon is bringing generative AI to Fire TV along with new devices (techcrunch.com)
After relaunching as a studio for creators, LimeWire acquires BlueWillow, a Midjourney competitor (techcrunch.com)
Amazon brings generative AI to Alexa (techcrunch.com)
Speechly is joining Roblox | Speechly(speechly.com)
OpenAI Announces DALL·E 3 in Research Preview(openai.com)
GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals – The GitHub Blog(github.blog)

OpenAI Red Teaming Network(openai.com)
Introducing Projects: Create High-Quality Audiobooks in Minutes(elevenlabs.io)
Google Bard September update: App extensions and new features(google)
OpenAI races to launch multimodal LLM GPT-Vision, aiming to beat Google Gemini’s debut(aibeat.co)
DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease | MIT Technology Review(technologyreview.com)
How to watch and follow Thursday’s Microsoft Surface event(engadget.com)
TikTok now lets creators label AI-generated content(engadget.com)
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is building an expensive new AI GPU cluster for medical research – The Verge(theverge.com)

Digital Health Builders Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Jobs to be Done (a16z.com)
What’s next for Windows and Surface without Panos Panay? – The Verge (theverge.com)
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data (techcrunch.com)
Paint app update adding support for layers and transparency begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (blogs.windows.com)

DeepMind discovers that AI large language models can optimize their own prompts (venturebeat.com)

The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models (a16z.com)
AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models (news.mit.edu)
Meta Preps ‘AI Holiday Season’ With AI Bid Multipliers, Budget Scheduling (mediapost.com)
Google nears release of AI software Gemini, The Information reports (reuters.com)
Google Gemini: What We Know So Far (searchenginejournal.com)

Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Tom Hanks Take Metaphysic AI Route (hollywoodreporter.com)
Amazon launches generative AI to help sellers write product copy (aboutamazon.com)
AI detects eye disease and risk of Parkinson’s from retinal images (nature.com)

Adobe starts paying bonuses to Stock contributors whose content is being used to train Firefly (adobe.com)
All new, AI-powered Creative Cloud release and Pricing update (adobe.com)
Adobe unveils powerful new AI and 3D features in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects (adobe.com)
The iPhone 15 Opts for Intuitive AI, Not Generative AI (wired.com)
Introducing Würtschen: Fast Diffusion for Image Generation( huggingface.co)
Mark Zuckerberg’s Remarks at AI Forum (about.fb.com)
Announcing Stable Audio, a product for music & sound generation (stability.ai)

Character.ai Surpasses ChatGPT in Mobile App Usage in the US (robots.net)
These Prisoners Are Training AI (wired.com)
YouTube’s AI-powered solutions enhance ad creativity (google)
Salesforce embeds conversational AI across the platform with Einstein Copilot (techcrunch.com)
Another group of writers is suing OpenAI over copyright claims (theverge.com)
Coke’s latest mystery flavor is here. It’s created by AI (chippewa.com)

Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates (wsj.com)
Authors must disclose use of AI on Amazon Kindle (the-decoder.com)
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built with a lot of water (apnews.com)
Launching the Digital Futures Project to support responsible AI (google)
The FTC is setting its sights on generative AI (techcrunch.com)

‘Magical’ Listing Tool Harnesses the Power of AI to Make Selling on eBay Faster, Easier, and More Accurate (innovation.ebayinc.com)
ChatGPT Losing Hype, Traffic Down Three Months in a Row (businessinsider.com)
NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM Supercharges Large Language Model Inference on NVIDIA H100 GPUs (developer.nvidia.com)
AI Drake song ‘not eligible’ for a Grammy, Academy CEO says – The Verge (theverge.com)
Musk Tried to Convince Sam Altman to Fold OpenAI Into Tesla: Biographer (businessinsider.com)
China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says | Reuters (reuters.com)
Efficient Controllable Generation for SDXL with T2I-Adapters (huggingface.co)

Microsoft is testing a background removal tool in Paint (theverge.com)
The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 (time.com)
Anthropic \ Introducing Claude Pro (anthropic.com)

The AI Drake ‘Ghostwriter’ is back with a new song and is chasing a Grammy  (theverge.com)
HubSpot announces new AI sales and marketing tools for SMBs (venturebeat.com)
OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6 (techcrunch.com)
Alibaba-backed autonomous driving darling Deeproute sets sight on Europe carmakers (techcrunch.com)
Thanks to AI, hearing aids offer translation, other high-tech features (scrippsnews.com)
Adobe releases a new AI powered version of Image to Material (adobe.com)
Pentagon Plans Vast AI Fleet to Counter China Threat  (wsj.com)
Inside Elon Musk’s Struggle for the Future of AI (time.com)
A New Tool for AI-Generated Character Animation Enters Open Beta (80.lv)
Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here (huggingface.co)

Criminal enterprise flaunts AI in creepy ‘fraud-for-hire’ commercial meant for dark web  (foxnews.com)
Amazon One palm scanning is trained by generative AI (aboutamazon.com)
Why Meta’s Yann LeCun isn’t buying the AI doomer narrative (fastcompany.com)
Zoom rebrands existing — and intros new — generative AI features (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI Introduces Canva Plugin to ChatGPT Plus Subscribers to Enhance Content Creation (coinspeaker.com)

Microsoft files new AI-powered smart backpack patent. It can hear you and see what you see – (mspoweruser.com)
Intel Is Betting Artificial Intelligence Will Escape the Cloud  (fool.com)

US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries (reuters.com)
Microsoft files patent for AI backpack  (windowscentral.com)
X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training (stackdiary.com)
Announcing Japanese InstructBLIP Alpha (stability.ai)

Call of Duty will use AI to moderate voice chats – (theverge.com)
Samsung launched its AI-powered recipe app called Food – Tech (sea.mashable.com)
Teaching with AI (openai.com)
Baidu launches Ernie chatbot after Chinese government approval (theverge.com)
Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET (ai.meta.com)
Niantic rolls out GenAI tools for 8th Wall developers (venturebeat.com)
Generative AI in Google Search expands to India and Japan (google)

OpenAI disputes authors’ claims that every ChatGPT response is a derivative work (arstechnica.com)
Introducing new audio transcription tools for Substack (on.substack.com)
High-speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers (news.uzh.ch)
OpenAI shatters revenue expectations, predicted to generate over $1 billion (the-decoder.com)

Ideogram AI is Now Available For Everyone (ideogram.ai)
Yahoo Mail isn’t dead and adds AI capabilities (theverge.com)
US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright (theverge.com)
Google Cloud and NVIDIA Take Collaboration to the Next Level (blogs.nvidia.com)
Quora’s Poe launches bot search, announces enterprise package (techcrunch.com)
Google Cloud announces the 5th generation of its custom TPUs (techcrunch.com)
Google is bringing generative AI to its security tooling (techcrunch.com)
Google upgrades Vertex AI to keep pace with the generative AI boom (techcrunch.com)
Duet AI for Google Workspace now generally available (workspace.google.com)
Duet AI in Google Cloud Preview (cloud.google.com)
 Identifying AI-generated images with SynthID (deepmind.com)

Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
Uber Eats is reportedly developing an AI chatbot that will offer recommendations, speed up ordering  (techcrunch.com)
DoorDash Developing AI-Powered Voice Ordering for Restaurants (foodondemand.com)
Meta plans to take on GPT-4 with armored Llama 3, which is still free (the-decoder.com
Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise (openai.com)

Elon Musk takes FSD Beta V12 on 45-minute rush hour demo while musing over stop sign regulations – (notebookcheck.net)

Moonwalkers’: These AI-powered strap-on shoes can make you walk three times faster (euronews.com)
Qualcomm’s ‘Holy Grail’: Generative AI Is Coming to Phones Soon – CNET (cnet.com)

OpenAI partners with Scale to provide support for enterprises fine-tuning models (openai.com)
You Can Now Generate AI Game Assets Directly Inside Unity with Scenario.com (twitter.com)
Elevate your gaming with Inworld Play Pass (inworld.ai)
Amazon brings new AI-driven features to Thursday Night Football (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft and Accenture partner to tackle methane emissions with AI technology (azure.microsoft.com)
Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding (ai.meta.com)
Hugging Face Raises Capital At A $4.5 Billion Valuation (twitter.com)

The Rise and Fall of ChatGPT? – by Gary Marcus (garymarcus.substack.com)
Nvidia Q2 2024: $6 billion in pure profit over the AI boom – (theverge.com)
Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking (honest-broker.com)
SDXL Gets Boost from NVIDIA TensorRT — Stability AI (stability.ai)
Microsoft might bring AI to apps like Paint and Photos (windowscentral.com)

GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates (openai.com)
The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler  (theverge.com)
Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool is now widely available in Edge (theverge.com)
NVIDIA Debuts AI-Enhanced Real-Time Ray Tracing for Games and Apps With New DLSS 3.5 | NVIDIA Blog (blogs.nvidia.com)
Microsoft and Epic expand AI collaboration to accelerate generative AI’s impact in healthcare (blogs.microsoft.com)
Introducing SafeCoder (huggingface.co)
Introducing SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translations (about.fb.com)
ElevenLabs Comes Out of Beta and Releases Eleven Multilingual v2 – an AI Speech Model for Nearly 30 Languages (elevenlabs.io)

Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’ (techcrunch.com)
Chinese firm launches WonderJourney satellite with AI-powered ‘brain’ (scmp.com)
Our principles for partnering with the music industry on AI technology (youtube)
An Interview With a Slack Product Manager About Innovation (gizmodo.com)
40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study (zdnet.com)

Ex-Google Scientists Kickstarted the Generative AI Era of ChatGPT, Midjourney (bloomberg.com)

Self-driving Cruise vehicle crashes with San Francisco fire truck (theverge.com)
Take-Two shuts down AI GTA 5 mod (gamesindustry.biz)
ElevenLabs’ Collaboration with ScienceCast and arXiv Generates Digestible Videos for Open Access Research (elevenlabs.io)

AI recreates clip of Pink Floyd song from recordings of brain activity (newscientist.com)
Google Photos introduces new Memories view (google)
ChatGPT Tests Into Top 1% for Original Creative Thinking (scitechdaily.com)
Runway launches new ‘Watch’ feature as CEO says Hollywood AI discourse ‘needs to be more nuanced’  (venturebeat.com)
Buildbox introduces StoryGames.AI for creators to build game narratives with AI  (venturebeat.com)
WhatsApp is taking sticker creation to the next level with generative AI  (androidcentral.com)

OpenAI acquires Global Illumination (openai.com)
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to launch AI-science moonshot  (semafor.com)
The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists (theverge.com)
Adobe Express with AI Firefly app is released worldwide (appleinsider.com)
Ex-MZ CEO launches BeFake, an AI-based social media app  (venturebeat.com)

OpenAI proposes a new way to use GPT-4 for content moderation  (techcrunch.com)
Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI (google)
Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements (techcrunch.com)

Amazon’s Latest AI Tool Will Summarize Customer Reviews For You (cnet.com)
Forget SEO: Why ‘AI Engine Optimization’ may be the future (venturebeat.com)
ChatGPT costs $700,000 daily, maker may go bankrupt in 2024: Report (business-standard.com)

DOD Announces Establishment of Generative AI Task Force > U.S. Department of Defense > Release (defense.gov)
La-Z-Boy’s AI-Powered ‘Decliner’ Will Send Your Regrets While You Kick Back (mediapost.com)
Better 3D Meshes, from Reconstruction to Generative AI | NVIDIA Technical Blog  (developer.nvidia.com)

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (theguardian.com)
U.S. Bans Future Investments in Chinese AI, Semiconductor, and Quantum Computing (tomshardware.com)
Amazon Reportedly Testing Generative AI Tools For Sellers (searchenginejournal.com)
ChatGPT expands its ‘custom instructions’ feature to free users (techcrunch.com)
News outlets demand new rules for AI training data (theverge.com)
The New York Times Updates Terms of Service to Prevent AI Scraping Its Content (adweek.com)
Inworld Joins Forces with ElevenLabs to Bring Dynamic Voices to AI NPCs (elevenlabs.io)

Biden-Harris Administration Launches Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge to Protect America’s Critical Software (whitehouse.gov)
Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM (techcrunch.com)
Shutterstock Develops New AI 3D Background Feature With NVIDIA Picasso | Tech Times (techtimes.com)
Japanese StableLM, Marking Entry into International Language Model  Market — Stability AI (stability.ai)

Google And Universal Music Group Negotiating AI-Generated Music Tool, Report Says (forbes.com)
Announcing StableCode — Stability AI (stability.ai)
SIGGRAPH Special Address: NVIDIA CEO Brings Generative AI to LA Show (blogs.nvidia.com)
D-ID and ElevenLabs Announce Partnership, Add Premium Voices to Popular Creative Reality Studio (elevenlabs.io)
NVIDIA Omniverse Opens Portals to Vast Worlds of OpenUSD (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
NVIDIA AI Workbench Speeds Adoption of Custom Generative AI for World’s Enterprises (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
NVIDIA and Hugging Face to Connect Millions of Developers to Generative AI Supercomputing (nvidianews.nvidia.com)

OpenAI launches web crawler ‘GPTBot’ amid plans for next model: GPT-5 (cointelegraph.com)
Zoom AI tools trained using some customer data, updated terms say (cnbc.com)
Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure (azure.microsoft.com)

Tim Cook says Apple is building AI into ‘every product’ amid questions over its plans | The Independent (independent.co.uk)

The absurd AI mania is coming to an end (cointelegraph.com)
Chinese tech giant Alibaba challenges Meta with open-sourced A.I. model launch (cnbc.com)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Returns to SIGGRAPH (blogs.nvidia.com)
XQ-58 Valkyrie Solves Air Combat ‘Challenge Problem’ While Under AI Control (thedrive.com)
IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face (newsroom.ibm.com)
The AI rules that Congress is considering, explained – Vox (vox.com)

ChatGPT is Rolling Out a Bunch of Small Updates to Improve the Experience (twitter.com)
“Every single” Amazon team is working on generative AI, says CEO (theverge.com)
AI.com flips from ChatGPT to Elon Musk’s X.ai (techcrunch.com)
Lupe Fiasco Partners With Google For Launch Of Artificial Intelligence Tool (vibe.com)
Nvidia AI Image Personalization Method Fits on a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes to Train – Decrypt (decrypt.co)
3 new things you can do with generative AI in Search (google)

Meta’s AI ‘personas’ might launch next month – The Verge (theverge.com)
Google pulls its AI Test Kitchen app from Play Store and App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Instagram is working on labels for AI-generated content – The Verge (theverge.com)
AudioCraft: A simple one-stop shop for audio modeling (ai.meta.com)
Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music | Meta (about.fb.com)

Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover (axios)
Generative AI will Usher in the Metaverse (humandrivenai)
OpenAI Reportedly Filed A Trademark for GPT-5 (twitter.com)
Kickstarter requires generative AI projects to disclose additional info (techcrunch.com)
YouTube tests AI-generated video summaries (engadget.com)

July 31, 2023
ChatGPT for Android Now Supported in All Countries ChatGPT is Supported (help.openai.com)

Artifact is getting an AI-powered text-to-speech feature to read you the news (theverge)
Intel CEO: ‘We’re going to build AI into every platform we build’ (theverge)

Amazon expands Bedrock with conversational agents and new third-party models (techcrunch) New AI Tool “FraudGPT’ Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks (thehackersnews)
Adobe adds Firefly-powered Generative Expand option to Photoshop beta (appleinsider)

Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI launch Frontier Model Forum (Microsoft)
A new partnership to promote responsible AI (Google)
The Stability AI team is proud to release as an open model SDXL 1.0 (stability.ai)
News publishers want billions in royalties from AI platforms (aibeat)
New Crisp and Diverse Default Voices Now Available! (elevenlabs)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Launches Worldcoin: A Bold Crypto Experiment At The Intersection Of AI, Identity And Finance (benzinga.com)
Spotify CEO teases a potential AI-powered capabilities surrounding personalization, ads (techcrunch)
Netflix Offers up to $900K for One A.I. Product Manager Role (IndieWire)
ChatGPT for Android is now available (theverge)

Microsoft’s Bing Chat comes to Chrome and Safari for testing to select users (techcrunch.com)
AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton thinks AI has or will have emotions (the-decoder.com)
Introducing Agents.js: Give tools to our LLMs using JavaScript (huggingface.co)

5 Ways ChatGPT can improve, not replace, you’re writing (wired)

Google And OpenAI Plan Technology To Track AI-Generated Content (forbes)
AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree (CNNBusiness)

Is ChatGPT getting worse? (gizmodo)
ChatGPT cannot remember who you are and what you want (theverge)
Apples turn to hop into the Apple GPT space (businessinsider)

Llama2 is free to download for research and commercial use (Meta)
Google’s rumored ‘Genesis’ AI tool for journalists could probably write this article (theverge)

4 Ways the Claude AI Chatbot is better than ChatGPT (Makeuseof)
Microsoft puts a steep price on Copilot, its AI-powered future of Office documents (theverge)

The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity (Vox)
ChatGPT Boosts Productivity 40% For Writing Tasks [STUDY] (Search Engine Journal)
The Top 3 Do’s and Don’ts of Integrating ChatGPT into Your Business (Entrepreneur)
Content Creators are (Almost) All-In on Generative AI Tools (Yahoo Finance)

Top 10 AI Tools Cooler Than ChatGPT (Yahoo News)
How To Use Generative AI Tools While Still Protecting Your Privacy (Wired)
Fake reviews: can we trust what we read online as use of AI explodes? (The Guardian)

Exclusive: will.i.am talks AI, the future of creativity, and his new AI app to ‘co-pilot’ creation (euronews.com)
Introducing CM3leon, a more efficient, state-of-the-art generative model for text and images (ai.meta.com)
Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights ‘for the rest of eternity’ (theverge.com)
OpenAI and Associated Press (AP) announce partnership to train AI on news articles (venturebeat.com)

Shopify Announces An AI Sidekick (twitter.com)
NotebookLM: How to try Google’s experimental AI-first notebook (google)
Leonardo Adds Prompt Magic v3 + SDXL 0.9 + 2,000 Token Credit (leonardo.ai)
Clipdrop Launches Stable Doodle — Stability AI (stability.ai)
July Bard update: New features, languages, countries (google)

Elon Musk Announces xAI to Understand the Universe (x.ai)
The risks of AI are real but manageable | Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)
Introducing Soundmatch! | Epidemic Sound (epidemicsound.com)

Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study (theguardian.com)
Shutterstock Expands Partnership with OpenAI, Signs New Six-Year Agreement to Provide High-Quality Training Data (prnewswire.com)
Introducing beehiiv AI – Email Marketing With AI (beehiiv.com)
Anthropic Launches Claude 2 in Open Beta (anthropic.com)

That Google memo about having ‘no moat’ in AI was real — and Google’s AI boss disagrees with it (theverge.com)
AI Can Send Payments in Bitcoin $BTC Using New Tools From Lightning Labs (coindesk.com)
In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry (wsj.com)

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (theverge.com)

Martin Lewis warns over ‘first’ deepfake video scam ad circulating on Facebook (techcrunch.com)

ChatGPT sees traffic fall 10% in June after initial rush from users (cointelegraph.com)
China’s Alibaba and Huawei add products to AI frenzy (reuters.com)
Shutterstock continues generative AI push with legal protection for enterprise customers (venturebeat.com)

GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API (openai.com)

Google confirms it’s training AI using scraped web data (theverge.com)

Introducing Superalignment (openai.com)

Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)

Man designs ChatGPT bot subscription service to annoy and waste telemarketers’ time (techspot.com)