The Disney AI Hack

Plus New SORA Footage...

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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
July 17, 2024

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Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🤖 Disney Hacked

  • ✨ OpenAI Releases New Sora Footage

  • 📰News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

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TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Anthropic has doubled the max output token limit for Claude 3.5 Sonnet from 4096 to 8192 in the Anthropic API

Alex Albert, an Anthropic employee, recently announced on Twitter that the Claude Sonnet 3.5 API now supports an output limit of 8192 tokens, doubling its previous 4096 token limit.

  • This update addresses user feedback requesting a higher output limit to better compete with other AI assistants like ChatGPT.

  • The increased token limit will be particularly useful for coding and generating longer responses.

  • Some users are still hoping for even higher limits of 16k or 32k tokens in the future to fully match ChatGPT's capabilities.

Disney’s internal Slack was leaked by hackers mad about AI

Disney hit by massive data leak from hacktivists Nullbulge, exposing over 1TB of internal Slack communications and confidential information.

  • Nullbulge claims they compromised a Disney employee's computer to access nearly 10,000 corporate Slack channels dating back to at least 2019.

  • The leaked data includes credentials, code, visuals, undisclosed projects, and details on upcoming gaming partnerships and unannounced video game sequels.

  • Nullbulge cites issues with Disney's artist contracts, AI stance, and alleged consumer disregard as motivations for the targeted attack.

Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations

Google is launching Vids, a new AI-powered video creation app, in Workspace Labs. Vids allows users to easily create video presentations by combining documents, slides, voiceovers, and video clips in a timeline.

  • Vids is driven by Google's Gemini AI, which can generate a video presentation based on a user's vision

  • It differs from AI like OpenAI's Sora that generates realistic footage from scratch

  • Users can also start presentations manually using templates and royalty-free stock content

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This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well (link)

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Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (link)

Apple’s public betas: all the news on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and more (link)

Gemini extensions roll out to Google Workspace add-on subscribers (link)

U.S., Singapore Cooperate on Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (link)

Elon Musk blames robo-taxi delay on ‘important design change,’ but he claims to have a surprise up his sleeve (link)

New Sora demo from OpenAI and Tammy Lovin (link)

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Cohere and Fujitsu Announce Strategic Partnership To Provide Japanese Enterprise AI Services (link)

The Summer of Suno - $100k competition for videos feat. AI songs made with Suno (link)

Perplexity collaborates with Amazon Web Services to launch Enterprise Pro (link)

This website is offering to let me negotiate with an AI to buy a mattress (link)

UN launches the first artificial intelligence tool for rapid natural capital accounting (link)

Hayden AI Raises $90 Million in Series C Led by TPG’s The Rise Fund (link)

Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out (link)

Amazon launches App Studio and new gen AI guardrails at AWS Summit (link)

OpenAI is working on AI models that are capable of reasoning and ‘deep research’ (link)

Microsoft Introduces SPREADSHEETLLM: an AI a spreadsheet boost(link)

AI breakthrough improves Alzheimer's predictions (link)

Disney Music Group Teams With AudioShake to Separate Stems of Classic Songs Using AI (link)

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✨ OpenAI Releases New SORA Footage

We don’t know when OpenAI will release SORA, its AI video creation tool, but today, it debuted some new footage.

They did say “ We’re continuing to slowly expand Sora testing to more creatives (digital VFX pioneers, architects, choreographers, engineering artists, and creative entrepreneurs) to help us understand the model's capabilities and limitations, shaping the next phase of research to create increasingly safe AI systems over time. While access is still extremely limited while safety testing is underway, we wanted to celebrate these artists’ work with their reflections on how they use Sora in their process. (The underlying visuals were generated solely with Sora without any VFX, but artists added sound and edited using traditional filmmaking software.)”

Check out the video here (link)

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Eazy Response - a user feedback collection tool appropriate for product owners. It aims to turn user feedback into actionable insights instantly to shape strategic growth.

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