AI News You Missed - Oct 7th- Oct 11th
AI Roundup
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
October 13, 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, Oct 7th
Google stuffs more AI into search (link)
TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI (link)
80% of software developers will require AI training by 2027, Gartner study finds (link)
Meta unveils an AI video generator (link)
WordPress cofounder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him (link)
Google is testing verified checkmarks in search (link)
How Business Insider’s AI-based paywall strategy increased conversions by 75% (link)
Google's AI can detect tuberculosis just by analyzing cough sound (link)
Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision (link)
Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow (link)
Anthropic boosts RAG accuracy with context-aware retrieval (link)
People distrust headlines labeled as "AI-generated" (link)
Meta tests personalized AI content in Facebook and Instagram feeds (link)
If your AI seems smarter, it's thanks to smarter human trainers (link)
Google NotebookLM now summarizes YouTube videos and provides key insights directly from the video transcript (link)
OpenAI's o1 probably does more than just elaborate step-by-step prompting (link)
Tesla starts pushing Full Self-Driving access for some Cybertrucks (link)
Tuesday, Oct 8th
Apple Intelligence release date leaked – here's when the first AI features are set to arrive on your iPhone (link)
The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down (link)
Video editing app Captions launches an AI-powered social media manager for sites (link)
Website builder Squarespace says it’s training its AI tools with curation and taste (link)
Amazon closes more of its cashierless convenience stores (link)
Meta Ray-Bans' New AI Camera Features Are Arriving Now (link)
Black Forest Labs, the startup behind Grok’s image generator, releases an API (link)
Misinformation miring Hurricane Helene response (link)
Generative AI hits 28% usage rate, spreads throughout US workplace (link)
Wednesday, Oct 9th
Uber to launch OpenAI-powered AI assistant to answer driver EV questions (link)
Adobe proposes a way to protect artists from AI rip-offs (link)
Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize (link)
TikTok joins the AI-driven advertising pack to compete with Meta for ad dollars (link)
United States congressional candidate creates AI chatbot as debate stand-in for incumbent (link)
Americans are using AI at fairly high rates. What does this mean for the economy? (link)
Grindr Aims to Build the Dating World’s First AI ‘Wingman’ (link)
Anthropic challenges OpenAI with affordable batch processing (link)
Thursday, Oct 10th
Zoom introduces AI Companion 2.0 and the ability to customize AI Companion with a new add-on (link)
Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition (link)
US Plan to Break up Google's Search Dominance Threatens Profit Engine, AI Growth (link)
Stripe and Nvidia to Expand Financial Platform’s AI-Powered Features (link)
OpenAI Media Chief Says Readers Reject ChatGPT Stories: ‘No One Wants to Read AI-Generated News’ (link)
Gen Zs, millennials are using AI for emotional support, calling it ‘more effective’ than a pet: study (link)
OpenAI sees continued attempts by threat actors to use its models for election influence (link)
OpenAI and Hearst strike content deal (link)
Friday, Oct 11th
Cato CTRL Threat Research: ProKYC Selling Deepfake Tool for Account Fraud Attacks (link)
LinkedIn says if you share fake or false AI-generated content, that's on you (link)
OpenAI Losing Billions Until 2026 (link)
That’s it for today.
Until next time, stay safe.
-Best of AI Team
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