AI News You Missed - April 29-May 3

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Welcome back, AI’ers!

Here’s the AI news you may have missed from last week.

Enjoy!

AI New’s You Missed

Monday, April 29th

Apple in talks with OpenAI to bring AI features to the iPhone (link)

TikTok might introduce an AI voice-cloning feature (link)

Curio raises funds for Rio, an ‘AI news anchor’ in an app (link)

Zapier releases Zapier Central (link)

Perplexity launches iOS Voice app (link)

Google announces a new $75 million fund to train workers in AI (link)

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders to Serve on AI Safety Board (link)

Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun (link)

LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman creates AI version of himself (link)

Chinese AI model allegedly better than GPT-4 Turbo (link)

Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Closes In on $6 Billion Fundraising (link)

ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (link)

Tuesday, April 30th

Learn more about managing your GPT's memory in ChatGPT (link)

AI Is Poisoning Reddit (link)

Chinese Drone Maker DJI Might Get Banned Next in the US (link)

Financial Times announces strategic partnership with OpenAI (link)

AI Funding Stays Strong Despite Few Billion-Dollar Rounds (link)

Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (link)

Apple Rivals Retool to Challenge the iPhone and Vision Pro (link)

AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable (link)

Sam Altman handpicked for Homeland Security's AI safety board (link)

OpenAI Faces Privacy Complaint in Vienna Over ChatGPT’s Data Handling (link)

China Unveils Vidu: A Powerful Text-to-Video Generator (link)

Wednesday, May 1st

Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses (link)

‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools (link)

GitHub launches Copilot Workspace (link)

A new AI model called “gpt2-chatbot” launches (link)

Elon Musk guts Tesla's charging team after winning over major automakers (link)

How we can co-exist with AI (link)

Sam's Club's AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores (link)

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. (link)

Microsoft (MSFT) to Invest $1.7 Billion in Cloud Computing, AI Tech in Indonesia (link)

NIST Unveils Innovative Tool to Assess Generative AI (link)

Thursday, May 2nd

Anthropic launches new iPhone app and premium plan for businesses (link)

Microsoft takes AI responsibility seriously… (link)

Atlassian launches Rovo, its new AI teammate (link)

Amazon launches Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses (link)

Google introduced Med-Gemini - designed for medicine (link)

Apple Hired Dozens of AI Experts From Google for a Secretive Zurich Research Lab (link)

Pinterest says its AI-powered collages are now more engaging than Pins (link)

A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering (link)

Sam’s Club’s AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores (link)

Google sued by US artists over AI image generator (link)

Apple's Safari to take on Chrome, Edge with AI-centric upgrade (link)

Friday, May 3rd

FKA Twigs uses AI to create deepfake of herself (link)

Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition (link)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4 is the dumbest AI model you'll ever have to use again (link)

National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT (link)

Ukraine Unveils AI-generated Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman (link)

Type “@” in the desktop address bar and select Chat with Gemini (link)

Planning Research with Generative AI (link)

Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal (link)

TikTok and Universal Music Group end feud with new agreement (link)

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint (link)

That’s it for today.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

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