AI News You Missed - June 24th-28th

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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 24th

Musk Says Dell, Super Micro Computer Will Provide Hardware for His AI Startup (link)

Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says (link)

Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI,’ say photographers (link)

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution (link)

Perplexity added support for Anthropic’s new Sonnet 3.5 model (link)

6 distinct forms of depression identified by AI in brain study (link)

AI is replacing human tasks faster than you think (link)

Putin's AI doctrine seeks semi-automated military as Moscow could look to China for help, expert says (link)

SoftBank CEO says AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans will come out in 10 years (link)

Hackers ‘jailbreak’ powerful AI models in global effort to highlight flaws (link) 

Nvidia's stock plunge erases $118B in market cap (link)

Apple may delay AI features in the EU because of its big tech law (link)

OpenAI’s first acquisition is an enterprise data startup (link)

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

SoundHound buys Allset to bring AI voice ordering to more drive-throughs (link)

Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month (link)

Sierra’s new benchmark reveals how well AI agents perform at real work (link)

SoftBank’s Son Aims to Create ‘Super’ AI in New Investment Drive (link)

She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As A Side Hustle (link) 

Citi Sees AI Displacing More Bank Jobs Than Any Other Sector (link)

Generative AI has the potential to unlock creativity on YouTube and transform the experience for viewers and creators on our platform (link)

Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot (link)

Tuesday, June 25th

Apple and Meta Reportedly Pursuing AI Collaboration (link)

Record labels sue two AI startups for copyright infringement (link)

Anthropic CEO says a universal basic income isn't enough to address AI job losses (link)

New AI algorithm flags deepfakes with 98% accuracy  (link)

China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip (link)

Google Adds Gemini to School Accounts for Students (link)

Stability AI Gets New CEO and Funds (link)

Nvidia-backed AI startup Synthesia now lets you make multilingual video presentations using just your phone or webcam (link)

OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI (link)

Nvidia to launch in Middle East amid U.S. curbs on AI exports to region (link)

China contemplates ‘countermeasures’ after US takes steps to curb outbound tech, AI investment (link)

Qualcomm makes its AI models available to app developers (link)

Nvidia's next-gen DLSS may leverage AI — tech will be able to generate in-game textures, characters, and objects from scratch (link)

Huawei launches Harmony Intelligence with AI features for smartphones (link)

Gates Foundation backs an AI wildcard (link)

OpenAI CTO responds to backlash about the existence of creative jobs (link)

AI Is already wreaking havoc on global power systems (link)

AI blood test for Parkinson's detection (link)

Axel Peytavin demonstrated a small, autonomous robot prototype powered by GPT-4 (link)

Formula 1 and Amazon Aim for AI-Powered ‘Personalized’ Race Viewing (link)

Top AI Companies Really Want to Make Their Chatbots Funnier (link)

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups oppose California's AI safety bill (link)

Wednesday, June 26th

Google Is Enhancing Gmail (link)

Apple No Longer Integrating Meta’s AI Models (link)

Synthesia Releases Updates 2.0 Version (link)

Meta Expands AI Startup Program in Europe (link)

Google discusses how it created its Google AI Essentials course (link)

Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others (link)

IBM Quantum System Two and AI Integration (link)

Central banks must prepare for the profound impact of AI, BIS says (link)

Karpathy announces LLM101n, a massive course to build AI storytellers using LLMs (link)

Building a personalized code assistant with open-source LLMs using RAG Fine-tuning (link)

New Google Chrome can run Gemini locally and offline at an unprecedented speed (link)

Together AI releases a tutorial to build your own personalized code assistant using Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (link)

Google is reportedly building AI chatbots based on celebrities and influencers (link)

Nvidia shares rebound after steep sell-off (link)

OpenAI moves toward its own AI operating system and a post-browser world (link)

Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model (link)

Venture firms could be the latest target for AI disruption, and that's not the only threat to VCs (link)

The Future of AI in Glaucoma Is Around the Corner, Though Not Without Some Challenges (link)

AI titans Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly had a standoff over Microsoft's use of B200 AI GPUs in its own server rooms (link)

China’s ByteDance partners with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip (link)

Multi is joining OpenAI (link)

Etched is Making the Biggest Bet in AI launching its custom chip Sohu (link)

Thursday, June 27th

OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode (link)

YouTube Negotiates with Music Labels for AI Training (link)

ChatGPT desktop app for macOS is now available for all users (link)

More Details on OpenAI Reportedly Moving to Block Chinese Access to AI Tools (link)

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says he loves Sam Altman, believes he’s sincere about AI safety (link)

Google released 7 principles for getting AI regulation right (link)

Top 5 High-Paying Remote AI Jobs In 2024, From Research (link)

Jobright uses AI to help foreign workers navigate the US job market (link)

How Anthropic’s ‘Projects’ and new sharing features are revolutionizing AI teamwork (link)

Owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand (link)

OpenAI CTO Sparks Controversy Over Creative Jobs Take (link)

NBC Brings A.I. Al Michaels to Peacock for Customized Paris Olympics Recaps (link)

Meta alum launches AI biology model that simulates 500 million years of evolution (link)

Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers (link)

ChatGPT's writing style has infiltrated over 10% of scientific abstracts since its launch, study finds (link)

Robot face with lab-grown living skin created by scientists hoping to make more human-like cyborgs (link)

Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody (link)

New computational model of real neurons could lead to better AI (link)

Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research (link)

Harvard dropouts raise $120 million to take on Nvidia’s AI chips (link)

Google to showcase AI, new Pixel phones at surprise Aug 13 event (link)

Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs (link)

AI’s Hidden Opportunities: Shawn "swyx" Wang on New Use Cases and Careers (link)

Beehiiv has acquired Typedream, an AI-based website builder (link)

Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accounting (link)

Mozilla rolls out the first AI features in Firefox Nightly (link)

Samsung just announced a date for its next Galaxy AI updates (link)

Friday, June 28th

OpenAI announces partnership with Time (link)

Figma unveils AI-powered design tools, challenges Adobe’s dominance (link)

NBC rolls out AI vocals for Olympic recaps (link)

Sam Altman recently gave an update on GPT-5 (link)

Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages with AI (link)

TIME and ElevenLabs partner to accelerate the creation of audio accessible content (link)

Google touts ‘enterprise-ready’ AI with more facts and less make-believe (link)

SoftBank forms AI healthcare JV in Japan with Tempus (link)

Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls (link)

Google released its new model Gemma 2, to researchers and developers (link)

US tops world ratings for AI preparedness; China, Russia and Iran lag in key measures, report finds (link)

Amazon hits $2 trillion in valuation on AI fervor, rate cut bets (link)

Goldman Sachs Deploys Its First Generative AI Tool Across the Firm (link)

SoftBank to Back AI Startup Perplexity at $3 Billion Value (link)

Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers (link)

OpenAI announces CriticGPT - A self-improving model? (link)

YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training (link)

Hugging Face’s updated leaderboard shakes up the AI evaluation game (link)

An AI-designed horse purse is tearing apart this small but passionate community (link)

Hollywood union scores agreement on AI with studios (link)

IBM Study: Fan Engagement and Consumption of Sports Shifting, Reveals New Opportunities for AI (link)

Formation Bio raises $372M to boost drug development with AI (link)

That’s it for today.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

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