AI News You Missed - May 20-24
AI Roundup
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
May 26, 2024
Welcome back, AI’ers!
Here’s the AI news you may have missed from last week.
Enjoy!
AI New’s You Missed
Monday, May 20th
“I lost trust”: Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded (link)
Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs at Build developer conference (link)
Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses (link)
How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda (link)
Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources (link)
Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies (link)
A deepfake ‘CFO’ tricked the British design firm behind the Sydney Opera House in $25 million scam (link)
AI voiceover company stole voices of actors, New York lawsuit claims (link)
LetzAI is now live in North America (link)
Tuesday, May 21st
Frustration grows over Google's AI Overviews feature, how to disable (link)
Snapchat focuses on AI with $1.5 billion yearly investment (link)
OpenAI filed for trademarks on May 16th that suggests AGI is coming to GPT-4o (link)
Scarlett Johansson battles OpenAI over AI voice that sounds similar to hers (link)
Colorado launches first US AI legislation (link)
FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (link)
Microsoft Copilot is inserting Ads as sources for its outputs (link
Wednesday, May 22nd
Former Google employee says company's AI work is driven by 'a stone cold panic that they are getting left behind' (link)
North Korean IT workers game U.S. companies' hiring practices (link)
London-based Technology company Nothing has made its industry-first chat GPT integration accessible to its entire roster of audio products (link)
Suno raises $125M to become the ‘ChatGPT’ of music creation (link)
Google invests 1 billion euros in Finnish data centre to drive AI growth (link)
Scarlett Johansson fires back at OpenAI over claims they stole her likeness (link)
Thursday, May 23rd
Breaking: EU Council approves AI Act, world's first legal framework on artificial intelligence (link)
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (link)
Introducing Tako And Perplexity Integration (link)
Learning how to use AI could boost your pay by 25%, study finds (link)
Photoshop is testing a new AI feature called "Reference Image" (link)
Gemini Advanced now supports spreadsheet uploads for data analysis (link)
TikTok turns to generative AI to boost its ads business (link)
Humane Inc., the startup behind the AI Pin, is reportedly exploring a potential sale of its business (link)
Earnings from AI-heavyweight Nvidia to test US stocks’ record run (link)
Friday, May 24th
Truecaller partners with Microsoft to let its AI respond to calls in your own voice (link)
Google acquiring HubSpot would bolster bid to challenge Microsoft (link)
Quick Bits
Meta introduces Chameleon, a state-of-the-art multimodal model (link)
Google launches Generative AI Ops services for enterprise users (link)
Colorado launches new law aimed at mitigating bias in artificial intelligence (link)
$6M fine for robocaller who used AI to clone Biden’s voice (link)
Ideogram Tile brings AI-generated patterns to the masses (link)
That’s it for today.
Until next time, stay safe.
-Best of AI Team
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