AI News You Missed - Oct 21th- Oct 25th

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

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Monday, Oct 21th

The Pentagon Wants To Create Realistic Deepfakes (link)

Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati reportedly seeking over $100M to develop proprietary models (link)

A humanoid robot’s painting called ‘AI God’ may sell for over $120,000 (link)

Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording (link)

Meta Partnering with Blumhouse (link)

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide AI-generated audio conversations, launches business pilot (link)

Treasury Department now using AI to save taxpayers billions (link)

How to build an AI search engine (link)

Tuesday, Oct 22th

Apple Intelligence development at least 2 years behind industry leaders (link)

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences (link)

Microsoft has a plan to beat Apple and Google at AI (link)

Portugal could boost productivity if third of workforce trained in AI, study shows (link)

Perplexity AI seeks valuation of about $9 billion in new funding round (link)

ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models (link)

Tim Cook Knows Apple Isn’t First in AI but Says ‘It’s About Being the Best’ (link)

Meta unveils new AI models to advance machine intelligence across multiple domains (link)

New affordable iPad tipped for 2025 launch with Apple Intelligence (link)

How Google is changing to compete with ChatGPT (link)

OpenAI, Microsoft reportedly hire banks to renegotiate partnership terms (link)

Wednesday, Oct 23th

Reddit CEO says the platform is in an 'arms race' for AI training (link)

Elon xAI Drops API (link)

Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC (link)

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Producer Sues Elon Musk’s Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery Over AI Images (link)

Meta tests facial recognition for spotting ‘celeb-bait’ ads scams and easier account recovery (link)

Marc Andreessen says AI model makers are in ‘a race to the bottom’ and it’s not good for business (link)

Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator (link)

IBM Introduces Granite 3.0: High Performing AI Models Built for Business (link)

Inside the FBI’s Secret Phone Company (link)

Why AI is going nuclear (link)

Thursday, Oct 24th

Canva introduces new Dream Lab featuring Leonardo.ai image generation (link)

American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show (link)

Apple releases new preview of its AI, including ChatGPT integration (link)

Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week (link)

Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide? (link)

Andreessen Horowitz is renting a bunch of Nvidia GPUs to its portfolio companies (link)

Kevin Bacon, Thom Yorke, Julianne Moore and thousands of other creatives sign petition against AI data scraping (link)

Friday, Oct 25th

Google adds new disclosures for AI photos, but it’s still not obvious at first glance (link)

Asana launches a no-code tool for designing AI agents - aka your new 'teammates' (link)

Former OpenAI researcher says company violated copyright law and destroyed the internet (link)

They wish this technology didn’t exist’: Perplexity responds to News Corp’s lawsuit (link)

White House memo calls for agencies to protect AI from foreign adversaries (link)

Google’s Anthropic AI Investment Gets Formal UK Merger Probe (link)

Beleaguered startup Humane drops Ai Pin price by $200 (link)

How AI could help prevent violence against seniors, kids (link)

2024 State of AI Report: Navigate the Evolving AI Landscape (link)

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (link)

Microsoft warns of growing US election cyber interference (link)

Perplexity seeks news allies as it challenges Google (link)

That’s it for today.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

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