AI News You Missed - Oct 14th- Oct 18th

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Here’s the AI news you may have missed from last week.

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Monday, Oct 14th

OpenAI Releases Swarm (link)

Billions of Gmail users at risk from sophisticated new AI hack — how to stay safe (link)

ByteDance lays off hundreds of TikTok employees (link)

AI tongue can detect difference between Coke and Pepsi, research finds (link)

Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill (link)

Apple AI researchers question OpenAI's claims about o1's reasoning capabilities (link)

Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation' (link)

Amazon’s new warehouses will employ 10x as many robots (link)

Meta’s Yann LeCun says worries about A.I.’s existential threat are ‘complete B.S.’ (link)

Tuesday, Oct 15th

Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro (link)

Photoshop is getting a bunch of new AI tools (link)

Google's share of the search ad market could drop below 50% for the first time in a decade as AI search engines boom (link)

Elon Musk’s chances against OpenAI look grim as ChatGPT creator moves to dismiss second lawsuit (link)

Apple Planning Smart Glasses and AirPods With Cameras for 2027 (link)

Jensen Huang envisions NVIDIA having 100 million AI agents (link)

Elon Musk’s Optimus bot stole the show at Tesla’s robo-taxi unveil—but the AI was all smoke and mirrors (link)

New ChatGPT prompt goes viral with Sam Altman’s approval (link)

OpenAI snatches up Microsoft generative AI research lead (link)

Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing (link)

AI to Increase Our Lifespan? (link)

ChatGPT rolls out SearchGPT in the US, offering live web search (link)

Wednesday, Oct 16th

NYT sends AI startup Perplexity 'cease and desist' notice over content use (link)

Amazon's AI Generator Tool Can Now Create Audio Ads (link)

Google's New nuclear clean energy agreement with Kairos Power (link)

Command AI is being acquired by Amplitude (link)

Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them (link)

A major Microsoft AI researcher is joining OpenAI (link)

Chinese Researchers Reportedly Crack Encryption With Quantum Computer (link)

The AI chip wars could see the U.S. cap Nvidia and AMD exports (link)

Apple announces new iPad Mini focused on AI (link)

Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. (link)

Google Shopping is getting an AI upgrade as Alphabet looks to monetize investments (link)

Thursday, Oct 17th

Amazon revamps Kindle line with faster page turns, AI, and a new green color (link)

Alibaba’s international arm says its new AI translation tool beats Google and ChatGPT (link)

EU AI Act checker reveals Big Tech's compliance pitfalls (link)

YouTube is testing “AI-enhanced” suggestions for comment replies (link)

AI firm Perplexity offers a peek into a new financial analysis tool (link)

Mistral releases new AI models optimized for laptops and phones (link)

The models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda (link)

Friday, Oct 18th

Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts (link)

An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows (link)

Student was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and administrators (link)

US prosecutors see rising threat of AI-generated child sex abuse imagery (link)

ChatGPT comes to Windows (link)

Perplexity’s two new features take it beyond just a chatbot (link)

OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment (link)

Hong Kong police bust fraud ring that used face-swapping tech for romance scams (link)

We’re entering a strange time where distinguishing between reality and AI-generated content will become nearly impossible (link)

That’s it for today.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

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