AI News You Missed - July 15th-19th

AI Roundup

Jelani Abdus-Salaam
July 21, 2024

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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, July 15th

The Atlantic’s CEO spoke on why it decided to make a deal with OpenAI (link)

Microsoft’s Copilot AI now understands your terrible handwriting (link)

Murf AI, a text-to-voice AI platform and competitor to ElevenLabs, teased their new Gen 2 model (link)

SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore (link)

After leaving Google, Jakob Uszkoreit started Inceptive to apply AI to drug development (link)

Most ChatGPT users think AI models have 'conscious experiences' (link)

Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are (link)

Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers (link)

EU’s AI Act gets published in bloc’s Official Journal, starting clock on legal deadlines (link)

The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (link)

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change (link)

Meta drops restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts (link)

OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ (link)

OpenAI reportedly "squeezed" through safety testing for GPT-4 Omni in just one week (link)

Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively (link)

OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (link)

SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore (link)

Microsoft’s OneNote Copilot AI now understands and analyzes handwritten notes, generating summaries and to-do lists (link)

Samsung just launched the Galaxy Ring, an AI-powered competitor to Oura smart rings (link)

Intuit to lay off 1,800 employees, plans to rehire in new AI and customer roles (link)

AWS introduces App Studio to speed up application development with AI (link)

Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified (link)

Distilling multi-step "System 2" reasoning into AI language models fails at Chain of Thought (link)

The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (link)

The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI (link)

OpenAI unveils five-level AI scale, aims to reach level 2 soon (link)

Apple’s confidence in AI is leading Android makers to stockpile chips, prioritize AI features (link)

Perplexity planning revenue sharing program with web publishers next month (link)

Google says Gemini AI is making its robots smarter (link)

Fireworks AI Raises $52M Series B to Lead Industry Shift to Compound AI Systems (link)

Buildots, AI-Driven Construction Technology Leader, Secures $15M Intel Capital-Led Investment to Fuel Strategic Growth (link)

Tuesday, July 16th

Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permission (link)

Biden’s top tech adviser says AI is a ‘today problem’ (link)

Whistleblowers accuse OpenAI of ‘illegally restrictive’ NDAs (link)

Pinterest Outlines AI Background Generation Process for Product Shots (link)

Meta to release their largest AI model yet (link)

Upcoming features in the works for Google Gemini (link)

Unearthed 1980s Bill Gates interview features the Microsoft founder talking about the earliest iterations of AI (link)

Apple at all-time high after Morgan Stanley calls stock 'top pick' for AI efforts (link)

AMD takes a deep dive into architecture for the AI PC chips (link)

Nvidia RTX 50 graphics card family TDPs 'leaked' by Seasonic (link)

TSMC second-quarter profit seen jumping 30% on surging AI chip demand (link)

Rabbit r1's AI assistant has secretly been storing user chats that can't be deleted (link)

Apple Intelligence will lead to a massive iPhone and iPad supercycle, Morgan Stanley says (link)

Japanese AI dating app that boasts over 5,000 users lets you ‘marry’ a bot (link)

DeepMind’s PEER scales language models with millions of tiny experts (link)

The AI Act compliance countdown begins (link)

Minecraft recreated by AI Website using Sonnet 3.5 (link)

EU’s AI Act gets published in bloc’s Official Journal, starting clock on legal deadlines (link)

Universities Don’t Want AI Research to Leave Them Behind (link)

Mysterious AI models appear in LMSYS arena (link)

A $3 billion software unicorn scrapped its plan to give AI ‘workers’ rights (link)

Wednesday, July 17th

Anthropic has doubled the max output token limit for Claude 3.5 Sonnet from 4096 to 8192 in the Anthropic API (link)

Disney’s internal Slack was leaked by hackers mad about AI (link)

Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations (link)

YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tool (link)

Mistral AI has released a new AI math model and a coding model (link)

Energy Department proposes AI strategy (link)

One-third of U.S. military could be robotic, Milley predicts (link)

This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well (link)

Microsoft faces UK antitrust investigation over hiring of Inflection AI staff (link)

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (link)

Apple’s public betas: all the news on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and more (link)

Gemini extensions roll out to Google Workspace add-on subscribers (link)

U.S., Singapore Cooperate on Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (link)

Elon Musk blames robo-taxi delay on ‘important design change,’ but he claims to have a surprise up his sleeve (link)

New Sora demo from OpenAI and Tammy Lovin (link)

a16z investment thesis and market map - AI scribes (link)

Cohere and Fujitsu Announce Strategic Partnership To Provide Japanese Enterprise AI Services (link)

The Summer of Suno - $100k competition for videos feat. AI songs made with Suno (link)

Perplexity collaborates with Amazon Web Services to launch Enterprise Pro (link)

This website is offering to let me negotiate with an AI to buy a mattress (link)

UN launches the first artificial intelligence tool for rapid natural capital accounting (link)

Hayden AI Raises $90 Million in Series C Led by TPG’s The Rise Fund (link)

Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out (link)

Amazon launches App Studio and new gen AI guardrails at AWS Summit (link)

OpenAI is working on AI models that are capable of reasoning and ‘deep research’ (link)

Microsoft Introduces SPREADSHEETLLM: an AI a spreadsheet boost(link)

AI breakthrough improves Alzheimer's predictions (link)

Disney Music Group Teams With AudioShake to Separate Stems of Classic Songs Using AI (link)

Thursday, July 18th

Salesforce debuts Einstein Service Agent, a new AI Agent for customer self-service (link)

After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education (link)

Samsung to acquire UK-based knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantic Technologies (link)

'ChatGPT moment for biology': Ex-Meta scientists develop AI model that creates proteins 'not found in nature' (link)

More than 40% of Japanese companies have no plan to make use of AI (link)

Workshop consensus: Fixing healthcare AI regulation will take more than tweaks and patches (link)

SAP AI Core Vulnerabilities Expose Customer Data to Cyber Attacks (link)

OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Overview: What it means (link)

Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU (link)

Google launches air-gapped Distributed Cloud Edge hardware for AI workloads (link)

TSMC Hikes Revenue Outlook to Reflect Heated AI Demand (link)

Meta decides to suspend its generative AI tools in Brazil (link)

Elon Musk Wants His AI Bot to Deliver the News. It Is Struggling With the Job (link)

Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs (link)

SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers’ cloud environments and private AI artifacts (link)

Apple says its OpenELM model doesn’t power Apple Intelligence amid YouTube controversy (link)

The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion (link)

Microsoft Designer launches new phone app for editing content with AI wherever you go (link)

Proton is launching an AI tool to help you write better emails (link)

Google Deepmind's new PEER architecture uses a million tiny experts to boost AI efficiency (link)

Bhutan’s first AI startup is seven college kids in a dorm (link)

Microsoft's acquisition of Inflection AI employees is under antitrust scrutiny by UK regulators (link)

Friday, July 19th