AI News You Missed - Nov 11th- Nov 15th
AI Roundup
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
November 17, 2024
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Welcome back, AI’ers!
Here’s the AI news you may have missed from last week.
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Monday, Nov 11th
Cyber Attack Warning As Hackers Use AI And Gmail In New Campaign (link)
Google rolls out its Gemini AI-powered video presentation app (link)
Salesforce to Hire 1,000 People for AI Product Sales Push (link)
ByteDance’s AI can make your photos act out movie scenes — but is it too real? (link)
OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of ‘GPT’ AI Improvements Slows (link)
ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes (link)
IBM "AI in Action" Report (link)
AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for $1m (link)
Chegg Is On Its Last Legs After ChatGPT Sent Its Stock Down 99% (link)
AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them (link)
Tuesday, Nov 12th
X is testing a free version of AI chatbot Grok (link)
ChatGPT monthly usage may now rival Google Chrome (link)
OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations (link)
OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown (link)
What Africa needs to do to become a major AI player (link)
Google’s AI ‘learning companion’ takes chatbot answers a step further (link)
DuckDuckGo releases AI chat feature (link)
Wednesday, Nov 13th
Apple's reported new smart home device will use its AI to help it catch up with Google (link)
Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia (link)
AI Search Threatens Digital Economy (link)
China’s Alibaba releases AI search tool for small businesses in Europe and the Americas (link)
US military is planning to use AI-powered machine guns to counter drone attacks (link)
Anthropic delays next-gen AI model Opus 3.5 with no new timeline (link)
Instagram could let AI generate a profile picture for you (link)
Vatican, Microsoft create AI-generated St. Peter’s Basilica to allow virtual visits, log damage (link)
OpenAI Co-Founder Returns to Startup After Monthslong Leave (link)
Generative disinfo is real — you’re just not the target, warns deepfake tracking nonprofit (link)
Amazon attempts to lure AI researchers with $110M in grants and credits (link)
Thursday, Nov 14th
OpenAI’s take on AI agents could come in January (link)
Perplexity brings ads to its platform (link)
The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling (link)
Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape (link)
Generative AI startup Writer raises $200M at a $1.9B valuation (link)
StackBlitz achieves $4M ARR in 4 weeks for their AI web development platform with Claude (link)
YouTube is testing a feature that lets select creators remix songs using AI (link)
Google's AI Overview has no opt-out. That's making some people unhappy (link)
Shopify Boosts AI and Unified Commerce Tools for Merchants (link)
Coinbase enhances customer support and operational efficiency with Claude (link)
Apple’s AI-powered Final Cut Pro 11 is now available (link)
Friday, Nov 15th
Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts (link)
How Elon Musk’s Supercomputer Freaked Out AI Rivals (link)
ChatGPT can now read some of your Mac’s desktop apps (link)
AI tool that sounds like a grandmother created to waste phone scammers’ time (link)
‘Hawk Tuah’ girl launches an AI-powered dating app called Pookie Tools (link)
X sues to block California anti-deepfakes bill (link)
TikTok plugs Getty Images into its AI-generated ads and avatars (link)
That’s it for today.
Until next time, stay safe.
-Best of AI Team
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