AI News You Missed - Nov 18th- Nov 22th
AI Roundup
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
November 24, 2024
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Welcome back, AI’ers!
Here’s the AI news you may have missed from last week.
Enjoy!
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Monday, Nov 18th
TikTok Releases AI-powered Symphony Creative Studio (link)
Elon Musk’s xAI reportedly raising multibillion-dollar funding round (link)
Fake AI video generators infect Windows, macOS with infostealers (link)
Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Doctors at Diagnosing Illness (link)
Coca-Cola ripped for ‘ugly’ AI-generated Christmas commercial: ‘Dystopian nightmare’ (link)
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’ (link)
Anthropic working with US Department of Energy's nuclear specialists to test if AI models leak nuke info (link)
22 Top AI Statistics And Trends In 2024 (link)
80% Of Surveyed Businesses Don’t Have Plans For An AI-Related Crisis (link)
OpenAI’s tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others (link)
Google will let you make AI clip art for your documents (link)
Google, Microsoft Are Spending Massively on AI, Quarterly Earnings Show (link)
Fake AI video generators infect Windows, macOS with infostealers (link)
How AI Could Break the Career Ladder (link)
Tuesday, Nov 19th
ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents (link)
Perplexity Rolls Out Its AI-Powered Ecommerce Experience in the US (link)
Trump revoking Biden AI EO will make industry more chaotic, experts say (link)
Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Doctors at Diagnosing Illness (link)
Startup gets CHIPS Act funding for diamond-cooled servers (link)
ESPN is testing a generative AI avatar called ‘FACTS’ (link)
Samsung Unveils Surprise $7 Billion Buyback as AI Fears Persist (link)
Former Google X employees come out of stealth with TwinMind, an AI app that hears and remembers everything about you (link)
Wednesday, Nov 20th
Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview (link)
A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness (link)
Free ChatGPT Replacement - Mistral Releases MEGA update (link)
Adobe increases content discovery capabilities and contributor earnings potential with new GenAI-powered offerings (link)
Google’s Chrome Worth Up to $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale (link)
Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — communications released during the recent OpenAI court case (link)
The Top Ten AI APIs for Software Engineering (link)
Buzzfeed's AI Ads Take a Dark Turn (link)
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI (link)
I was just informed from my boss and HR that my entire profession is being automated away (link)
Using AI to defeat AI cyber attacks (link)
Alexa’s AI Overhaul Problems (link)
Eleven Labs Launches Auto regenerate (link)
Thursday, Nov 21th
Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World (link)
OpenAI launches free AI training course for teachers (link)
US government commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative (link)
OpenAI rolled out Advanced Voice Mode for the web, allowing users to access the powerful feature directly in-browser (link)
Leaked: Amazon held talks with Instacart, Uber, Ticketmaster, and others for help on its new AI-powered Alexa (link)
Gemini can now remember things (link)
Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins (link)
How Mark Zuckerberg has fully rebuilt Meta around Llama (link)
Facebook parent Meta plans $5 billion AI data center in Louisiana (link)
Business spending on AI surged 500% this year to $13.8 billion, says Menlo Ventures (link)
Friday, Nov 22th
OpenAI Considering Taking On Google (link)
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (link)
US government commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative (link)
Most people can’t tell images are AI generated (link)
Sam Altman seeks investors for AI chipmaker that aims to challenge Musk-friendly Nvidia (link)
Wordware Raises $30M Seed Round (link)
A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1 (link)
Apple working on LLM Siri (link)
OpenAI in talks with Samsung (link)
That’s it for today.
Until next time, stay safe.
-Best of AI Team
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