AI News You Missed - June 17th-21th

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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 17th

Pope Francis Tells G7 That Humans Must Not Lose Control of AI (link)

Retired U.S. Army General Joins The OpenAI Board (link)

Bill Gates Investing Heavily In Nuclear (link)

Adobe Posts Biggest Gain Since 2020 After AI Sales Success (link)

Ashton Kutcher doubles down on AI comments after facing backlash: 'Need to be prepared' for what's coming (link)

Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed (link)

Amazon is reportedly way behind on its new Alexa (link)

Spotify announces an in-house creative agency, tests generative AI voiceover ads (link)

Former President Trump admits using speech rewritten by AI (link)

OpenAI Explores Benefit Corporation Model Amid Investor Pressure (link)

Nvidia releases free LLMs that match GPT-4 in some benchmarks (link)

Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (link)

Perplexity reportedly wants to give publishers a cut of revenue (link)

LinkedIn expands its AI job-hunting features for Premium subscribers (link)

Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for launching a rival AI company (link)

OpenAI CTO says models in labs not much better than what the public has already (link)

Photographer takes on the machines in AI competition – and wins (link)

Tuesday, June 18th

TikTok AI Avatars Coming To TikTok Ads (link)

Edward Snowden Warns About NSA Director Joining OpenAI (link)

How India Used Deepfakes For Political Advances…A Look At What Is Possible (link)

Meta and Amazon bosses make the case for AI optimism (link)

YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos (link)

Google DeepMind Shifts From Research Lab to AI Product Factory (link)

White Castle is taking drive-thru orders using an AI voice system that claims to be more accurate than a human (link)

Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers (link)

OpenAI shared some new capabilities around Color Health, a copilot application that assists doctors in creating personalized treatment plans for cancer patients (link)

Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds (link)

NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Microservices to Supercharge Physical AI (link)

Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe due to Irish request (link)

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (link)

NVIDIA Releases Open Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Training Large Language Models (link)

Former Meta engineers launch Jace, an AI agent that works independently (link)

Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry (link)

How Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to more than a dozen employees who worked on it (link)

Wednesday, June 19th

AI could help spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns (link)

Google DeepMind’s new AI tool uses video pixels and text prompts to generate soundtracks (link)

Anthropic published new research showing that AI models can engage in ‘reward tampering’, learning to cheat the system and grant higher rewards (link)

AFT Announces New Guardrails for Artificial Intelligence in Nation’s Classrooms (link)

Apple is pausing work on its next high-end Vision headset to focus on a cheaper model for 2025 (link)

MIT Technology Review explains why AI can hallucinate (link)

Here's how AI is transforming Disney, Spotify, and TikTok (link)

Apple Developer Academy adds AI training for students and alumni (link)

Salesforce debuts gen AI benchmark for CRM (link)

Snap launches AI tools for advanced augmented reality (link)

NATO targets AI, robots and space tech in $1.1 billion fund (link)

OpenAI expands into healthcare with AI tool for cancer screening (link)

Adobe’s hidden cancellation fee is unlawful, FTC suit says (link)

Apple releases 20 new AI models to run on edge devices (link)

Adobe upgrades Acrobat AI chatbot to add multi-document analysis, image generation (link)

Finbourne taps $70M for tech that turns financial data dust into AI gold (link)

Softbank offers a one-year subscription to the premium version of Perplexity in Japan (link)

Compilation of creative ways people are using ChatGPT (link)

Who is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms (link)

Runway just announced Gen-3 Alpha: their video generation model (link)

Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds (link)

AI-Equipped Underwater Drones Helping US Navy Scan for Threats (link)

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human (link)

Thursday, June 20th

Meta is Releasing New AI Research Models to Accelerate Innovation at Scale (link)

OpenAI shuts down tools for two AI political candidates (link)

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent (link)

Elon Musk Forecasts A “10%-20% Chance” Of AI-Related Global Disaster (link)

Meta AI removes block on election-related queries in India while Google still applying limits (link)

Adobe is facing a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission (link)

Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist (link)

How Abridge became one of the most talked about healthcare AI startups (link)

Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap to become most valuable public company (link)

OpenAI shuts down tools for two AI political candidates (link)

Adobe codifies pledge not to train AI on customer data (link)

Nvidia CEO Sees Bright Future for AI-Powered Electric Grid (link)

OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company (link)

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent (link)

Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine (link)

AI shows how field crops develop: Software can simulate future growth based on a single initial image (link)

Camb AI aims to challenge ElevenLabs - and releases its voice cloning model for free (link)

Apple Developer Academy adds AI training for students and alumni (link)

Notion launched 'AI connectors', a new feature that connects Slack and Google Drive to Notion AI (link)

Autify launches Zenes, an AI agent for software quality assurance (link)

Roblox’s Road to 4D Generative AI (link)

Friday, June 21th

Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots (link)

OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company (link)

Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams (link)

Target leans in on AI with new tool for store employees (link)

Amazon extends generative AI-powered product listings to Europe (link)

France leads the pack for generative AI funding in Europe (link)

Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI  (link)

This AI-powered robot has worked out how to solve a Rubik's Cube in just 0.305 seconds (link)

Apple’s AI push faces big challenges in China (link)

Accenture says strong AI demand to power 2024 revenue growth (link)

PayPal hires Walmart exec as chief technology officer in AI push (link)

EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control (link)

Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund (link)

Snapchat AI turns prompts into new lens (link)

Dell, Super Micro Shares Jump on Reports of ‘AI Factory’ for Elon Musk’s xAI (link)

Microsoft drops Florence-2, a unified model to handle a variety of vision tasks (link)

Elon Musk explains last year’s ‘Go f— yourself’ to advertisers (link)

OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI (link) 

Dell is building an AI factory with Nvidia chips. Why? To power xAI and Grok (link)

Not all ‘open source’ AI models are actually open: here’s a ranking (link)

China’s top AI startups enter the US defying political tensions (link)

AI Isn’t Making Much Money for Software Companies — Yet (link)

That’s it for today.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

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