AI News You Missed - Sept 30th- Oct 4th
AI Roundup
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
October 06, 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, Sept 30th
SoftBank to invest $500 mln in OpenAI (link)
Airtable just launched an AI platform that could change how you work (link)
Microsoft Copilot gets a major upgrade with new UI, Copilot daily, and more (link)
Google to Spend $1 Billion in Thailand to Speed Up Asia AI Push (link)
Microsoft to face higher competition scrutiny in Germany, including over its use of AI (link)
Mozilla has released a vision for Public AI, including an ecosystem of initiatives. (link)
Augmented Intelligence claims its AI can make chatbots more useful (link)
Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round (link)
ByteDance plans new AI model trained with Huawei chips, sources say (link)
Apple may release an iPad-like smart home display next year (link)
Raspberry Pi and Sony made an AI-powered camera module (link)
Anthropic reduces the error rate of RAGs by 67% using a simple method called "Contextual Retrieval" (link)
California governor vetoes major AI safety bill (link)
OpenAI plans to double ChatGPT's price in five years, targeting $100 billion in revenue by 2029 (link)
China makes AI breakthrough, reportedly trains generative AI model across multiple data centers and GPU architectures (link)
Microsoft Prepares to Relaunch AI-Powered Recall Offering (link)
Google and Meta update their AI models amid the rise of “AlphaChip” (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 1st
OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers (link)
New AI models are more likely to give a wrong answer than admit they don't know (link)
Udemy screws over teachers by stealing their content (link)
Microsoft brings AI-powered overviews to Bing (link)
Meta won’t say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos (link)
Chromebooks Are Getting a Dedicated AI Key, but You Won’t Use It for AI (link)
Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup (link)
The Art of the OpenAI Deal (link)
Japan's Shimano gives cyclists an easier ride with AI gear shifter (link)
Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” (link)
OpenAI Pitched US on Unprecedented Data Center Buildout (link)
California Enacts Additional Generative AI Bills Touching on Training Data and Healthcare Decisions (link)
Wednesday, Oct 2nd
Helene took out an N.C. town the entire tech world relies on (link)
Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers (link)
Online scammers duping 20% of the U.S. adults they encounter (link)
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma (link)
Amazon releases “Safer than ChatGPT” chatbot (link)
Intelligent Agents in AI Really Can Work Alone. Here’s How. (link)
Companies have work to do to earn trust in AI-powered customer support (link)
ByteDance reportedly trains new AI model on Huawei chips instead of Nvidia (link)
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements updated with new AI features (link)
Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build data center and accelerate AI growth (link)
Thursday, Oct 3rd
Microsoft to Invest $4.8 Billion in Italy for AI Infrastructure (link)
College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time (link)
Google Is Working on Reasoning AI, Chasing OpenAI’s Efforts (link)
Elon Musk’s xAI moves into OpenAI’s old HQ (link)
The PS5 Pro Proves AI Upscaling Is the Future (link)
Avarra raises $8M for AI-based avatar sales training (link)
Judge finds new California election deepfake ban unconstitutional (link)
OpenAI asks investors to avoid five AI startups including Sutskever's SSI, sources say (link)
Friday, Oct 4th
Elon Musk’s xAI moves into OpenAI’s old HQ (link)
The PS5 Pro Proves AI Upscaling Is the Future (link)
Avarra raises $8M for AI-based avatar sales training (link)
Judge finds new California election deepfake ban unconstitutional (link)
OpenAI asks investors to avoid five AI startups including Sutskever's SSI, sources say (link)
That’s it for today.
Until next time, stay safe.
-Best of AI Team
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