AI News You Missed - June 10th-14th

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

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AI New’s You Missed

Monday, June 10th

US antitrust enforcers will investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI (link)

Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (link)

Google Co-founder Testing AI Military Drones (link)

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off the first project: an open-source robot that does chores (link)

Google upgrades NotebookLM, an AI research and writing assistant powered by Gemini 1.5 (link)

Alibaba's new open-source LLM, Qwen2, outperforms Meta's Llama 3 in specialized tasks (link)

Cohere releases a library of tutorials to build powerful AI applications, like agents, with RAG and semantic search (link)

Silicon Valley in uproar after California lawmakers demand AI firms install ‘kill switch’ (link)

New York passes legislation to ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids (link)

OpenAI's new method shows how GPT-4 "thinks" in human-understandable concepts (link)

Opaque Unveils the First and Only Platform for Running AI Workloads on Encrypted Data (link)

Perplexity is directly 'ripping off' content from news outlets (link)

Microsoft Says You Don’t Have to Use Recall On Copilot+ If You Don’t Want To (link)

KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (link)

Wix’s new tool taps AI to generate smartphone apps (link)

AI song generator Udio gets multiple new features (link)

Elon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data (link)

Eko Health Raises $41M to Scale AI-driven Heart, Lung Detection (link)

AI anime flood - An infringement investigation of 90,000 images (link)

Eric Schmidt is secretly testing AI military drones in a wealthy Silicon Valley suburb (link)

Tuesday, June 11th

Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools (link)

xAI might be working on image generation (link)

Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (link)

OpenAI's new method shows how GPT-4 "thinks" in human-understandable concepts (link)

Princeton’s AI Unlocks New Levels of Performance in Fusion Reactors (link)

This is AI's 'next wave,' according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (link)

Google Deepmind says open-ended AI is key to achieving superintelligence (link)

Meta training AI products through user data breaks European law, claim activists (link)

Human Native AI is building the marketplace for AI training licensing deals (link)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta AI expansion and new WhatsApp Business features at Conversations 2024 (link)

Adobe clarifies it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content (link)

Promptframes: Evolving the Wireframe for the Age of AI (link)

Microsoft recalls ‘Recall’ (link)

Fake beauty queens charm judges at the Miss AI pageant (link)

Humanoid tourist: Watch AI-powered robot climb the Great Wall of China (link)

Anthropic posted a new blog detailing the process behind crafting its Claude AI model’s personality (link)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says we should not slow down AI development based on dystopian sci-fi scenarios (link)

Microsoft is outsourcing its best AI, tech CEO says — and that’s good news for Google (link)

Meta Platforms to Use Social Media Posts From Europe to Train AI (link)

Wednesday, June 12th

The US Space Force unveils tool for AI experimentation (link)

Morgan Stanley CEO says AI could save financial advisers 10-15 hours a week (link)

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership (link)

Tim Cook is ‘not 100 percent’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations (link)

Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’ (link)

Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640M (link)

Apple is putting ChatGPT in Siri for free later this year (link)

Whisper can now do real-time transcription locally on your browser (open-source) (link)

iPhones will soon text via satellite (link)

How does Apple send your data to its cloud AI servers? Very carefully, it claims (link)

Apple visionOS 2 adds 3D image transformations, ultrawide Mac display, and more later this year (link)

OpenAI Hires Former Member of Twitter as CPO, Nextdoor CEO as CFO (link)

Arm, Qualcomm legal battle seen disrupting AI-powered PC wave (link)

Global governments boost Nvidia's sales growth with domestic AI push - WSJ (link)

Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech (link)

Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You (link)

States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (link)

Researchers teach AI to speak dog (link)

Michael Kors first to debut Shopping Muse, the AI-powered shopping assistant from Dynamic Yield by Mastercard (link)

Perplexity has been the #2 referral source for Forbes (behind only Wikipedia) and the top referrer for other publishers (link)

Thursday, June 13th

Google Engineer Says Sam Altman-Led OpenAI Set Back AI Research Progress By 5-10 Years (link)

OpenAI’s Mira Murati fires back at Elon Musk for describing her company’s new partnership with Apple as “creepy spyware” (link)

U.S. is reportedly weighing further limits on China’s access to AI chip tech (link)

Microsoft is considering an AI revamp of its 365 software bundles, sources say (link)

Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles (link)

Midjourney has added Personalization, a feature that allows personalized image prompts using new parameters (link)

Contest is rewarding $1 million for help on AGI (link)

MediaTek designs Arm-based chip for Microsoft's AI laptops (link)

Stable Diffusion 3 Medium is another leap forward for AI image generation (link)

Elon Musk Drops “Benefit Of Humanity” Suit One Day After Trashing Company & Apple (link)

AI-powered Apple overtakes Microsoft as world's most valuable company (link)

Oracle shares jump on Google and OpenAI deals despite earnings miss (link)

OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) (link)

FTC Chair Lina Khan shares how the agency is looking at AI (link)

Microsoft sends Copilot Pro's GPT Builder to the digital dumpster (link)

Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole (link)

DeepMind unveils virtual rat with artificial brain (link)

New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos (link)

Google announces LLMs and agents focused on personal health (link)

Particle raises Series A to accelerate development of AI-powered news app (link)

AI is getting very popular among students and teachers, very quickly (link)

American AI startups attempt to relocate China-based engineers (link)

FTC Chair Lina Khan shares how the agency is looking at AI (link)

LinkedIn tests AI assistant for Premium members (link)

Media3.0 - Two-Thirds Of My Advertising Is AI-Enabled (link)

Friday, June 14th

Amazon to Shell Out $230m on AI Startups (link)

Apple and OpenAI aren’t Paying Each Other Yet (link)

Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’ (link)

Google search head says ‘we won’t always find’ mistakes with AI products and have to take risks rolling them out (link)

LinkedIn leans on AI to do the work of job hunting (link)

Yahoo News App Reimagined With Next-level Personalization From Artifact (link)

Picsart partners with Getty Images to develop a custom AI model (link)

Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Let's avoid becoming like IBM' (link)

Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut (link)

OpenAI Doubles Annualised Revenue To $3.4 Billion: Report (link)

OpenAI to use Oracle’s chips for more AI compute (link)

There’s an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK (link)

Amazon 'dropped the ball' with Alexa, former employee says (link)

Tim Cook says it's a 'significant possibility' people use their iPhones less because of AI (link)

US weighs more limits on China's access to AI chips, Bloomberg reports (link)

Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’ (link)

How Should Businesses Implement Artificial Intelligence Tools, Legally (link)

Pika Labs rolled out a new model update to its video generation platform, showcasing improved quality (link)

That’s it for today.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

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