AI News You Missed - April 22-26
AI Roundup
Jelani Abdus-Salaam & Franklin Navarro
April 28, 2024
Welcome back, AI’ers!
We are trying something new.
Since we publish a daily newsletter, you may miss some news.
So, every Sunday, we’ll send a particular issue that includes all of the news from the week.
Enjoy!
AI New’s You Missed
Monday, April 22nd
ChatGPT is coming to Nothing’s earbuds (Link)
Hackers attempted to trick LastPass employees with a cloned voice of CEO (Link)
Google is changing things up… - Google has announced a significant reorganization of its company structure, focusing on enhancing its AI capabilities to stay competitive in the industry.
TSMC estimates losses of $92.4 mln due to Taiwan earthquake (link)
Elon announces accounts engaging in engagement farming spam will be suspended (link)
Tesla recalls Cybertruck due to accelerator pedal that can stick (link)
Peter Thiel says AI will be 'worse' for math nerds than for writers (link)
Udio, the AI music generation tool, Raises $10M in Seed Funding (link)
Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years (link)
How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier (link)
Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary (link)
Los Angeles is using AI in a pilot program to try to predict homelessness and allocate aid (link)
Elon wants to bring back Vine (link)
Tuesday, April 23rd
Report: Apple acquires French startup behind AI and computer vision technology (link)
Zuck deciding that Meta should be a better Google than Google is such a fascinating turn (link)
Mark Zuckerberg said he would be willing to open source a $10 billion AI model (link)
This city is the United States second-biggest new AI job hotspot (link)
Ted Talks collaborates with OpenAI’s SORA to release an AI made video (link)
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI (link)
The Pentagon is spending billions on Big Tech and Silicon Valley startups as it goes all-in on AI (link)
Will AI Automate Everything? (link)
AI workflows & tools for marketers (link)
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories (link)
OpenAI winds down Dalle-2 (link)
Wednesday, April 24th
Adobe launches Firefly in Photoshop… (link) ‘
SoftBank invests nearly one billion US dollars in compute for generative AI models (link)
Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports (link)
Perplexity has reportedly raised $63 million and wants to raise an additional $250 million (link)
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now (link)
Hume, the Empathic Voice Engine, releases API (link)
Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (link)
Mercedes-Benz becomes the first automaker to sell Level 3 autonomous vehicles in the US (link)
Claude 3 beats Google Translate (link)
Microsoft hires former Meta exec to bolster AI supercomputing team (link)
OpenAI, Meta and Google Sign On to New Child Exploitation Safety Measures (link)
Microsoft launches Content Integrity tools to support global elections (link)
Llama-3 70B is the new king of open-model LLM’s (link)
Thursday, April 25th
Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own (link)
Perplexity launches Enterprise Pro (link)
Ray-Ban gets an AI upgrade powered by Meta (link)
Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives (link)
Etsy crochet buyers say AI-made images are being used to sell disappointing patterns (link)
Tesla to Ramp Up AI Development with Nvidia's Powerful Chips (link)
Nvidia acquires AI workload management startup Run:ai for $700M (link)
Adobe’s launches AI upscaling project makes blurry videos look HD (link)
Adobe’s latest AI model is now available for anyone (link)
UK probes Amazon and Microsoft over AI partnerships with Mistral, Anthropic, and Inflection (link)
Over half of Americans have used generative AI, and most believe it will help them be more creative (link)
Friday, April 26th
Nvidia-backed startup Synthesia unveils AI avatars that can convey human emotions (link)
TikTok might introduce an AI voice-cloning feature (link)
Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work? (link)
Tupac Shakur’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake Over Diss Track Featuring AI-Generated Tupac Voice (link)
Japan plans international forum to discuss regulation of generative AI (link)
Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI (link)
Apple Enters the Open AI Arena with CoreNet and OpenELM (link)
Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M (link)
Musk Escalates OpenAI Fight With Subpoena of Ex-Board Member Helen Toner (link)
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (link)
Two-thirds of top pharma firms ban employees from using ChatGPT (link)
How Americans feel about AI’s role in their careers (link)
California’s new law that would require disclosure of datasets used for AI training (link)
Moderna and OpenAI partner to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments (link)
That’s it for today.
Until next time, stay safe.
-Best of AI Team
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