AI Industry News and Updates

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Perplexity Raises Series B Funding Round of $73.6 million from investors including IVP, NEA, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Databricks, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos

https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/perplexity-raises-series-b-funding-round

CEO Sam Altman met with Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros Discovery. To show off Sora AI video generator - Ars Technica

https://apple.news/AHqsM1fM2Ruywf4jwH9WWUw

Meta Unveils Emu Video: Instagram integrated AI Technology for High-Quality Text-to-Video Generation and Enhanced Image Editing Tools

https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-editing-research/

Microsoft is bringing its AI Copilot to Windows 10 soon - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963576/microsoft-copilot-windows-10-ai-features-release-preview

Volkswagen is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/volkswagen-is-adding-chatgpt-to-its-infotainment-system/

Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/nvidias-chat-with-rtx-is-a-chatgpt-style-app-that-runs-on-your-own-gpu/

Assistants API Overview (Python SDK) | OpenAI Cookbook

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/assistants_api_overview_python

Data Extraction attack leaks several MB of Training Data from ChatGPT

https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/microsoft-swallows-openais-core-team

Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline’s chatbot | Canada | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit

@lightspeedvp leading a $35M Series A in @pika_labs, the company that’s redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience with AI.

https://twitter.com/mignano/status/1729510740246020403

Au Large | Mistral AI | Frontier AI in your hands

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

YouTube now requires creators to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI (blog.google)

https://blog.google/intl/en-in/products/platforms/how-were-helping-creators-disclose-altered-or-synthetic-content/

No "malfeasance" behind Sam Altman's firing, per an internal memo from chief operating officer Brad Lightcap

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/openai-memo-altman-firing-malfeasance-communications-breakdown

X Lags Behind TikTok, Meta In Restricting ‘Nudify’ Apps for Non-Consensual AI Porn

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7b4b3/x-lags-behind-tiktok-meta-in-restricting-nudify-apps-for-non-consensual-ai-porn

Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080165/google-reddit-ai-training-data

Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepfake-scammer-walks-off-with-25-million-in-first-of-its-kind-ai-heist/

Meta will label AI-generated content from OpenAI and Google on Facebook, Instagram

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/meta-will-label-ai-generated-content-from-openai-and-google-on-facebook-instagram/

NYC’s government chatbot is lying about city laws and regulations - Ars Technica

https://apple.news/A_cpX2ssHTSGiQpYsBoJHsA

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/30/ai-psychologist-chatbot-00132682

OpenAI in Upheaval: Sam Altman's Ouster Sparks Employee Resignation Threat, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Backs New Subsidiary as Interim CEO Emmet Shear Steps In

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/openai-staff-letter-board-resign-sam-altman

Report: Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/report-sam-altman-seeking-trillions-for-ai-chip-fabrication-from-uae-others/

ChatGPT’s new @-mentions bring multiple roles into your AI conversation

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/chatgpts-latest-feature-brings-different-ai-personalities-into-a-single-chat/

USPTO says AI models can’t hold patents

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/us-says-ai-models-cant-hold-patents/

FCC officially declares AI-voiced robocalls illegal | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/fcc-officially-declares-ai-voiced-robocalls-illegal/?utm_source=aitoolreport.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=google-announces-major-bard-updates

US, UK ink AI pact modeled on intel sharing agreements | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/04/us-uk-ink-ai-pact-modeled-on-intel-sharing-agreements/

Google DeepMind Unveils 'Lyria' - A Breakthrough AI Music Generation Model, Launches Innovative Experiments with YouTube to Revolutionize Creative Music Making

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/transforming-the-future-of-music-creation/

Google says running AI models on phones is a huge RAM hog - Ars Technica

https://apple.news/ABIEH-GVLToqlzGpwLSlTxQ

AI firms’ pledges to defend customers from IP issues have real limits | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/ai-firms-pledges-to-defend-customers-from-ip-issues-have-real-limits/

The Super Bowl’s best and wackiest AI commercials

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/the-super-bowls-best-and-wackiest-ai-commercials/

AI scientist Fei-Fei Li: ‘Maths is pretty clean. Humans are messy’

https://www.ft.com/content/d5f91c27-3be8-454a-bea5-bb8ff2a85488

OpenAI's board vs Sam Altman and Greg Brockman; Altman would want significant governance changes if he were to return as CEO per The Verge sources

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/the-king-is-dead-claude-3-surpasses-gpt-4-on-chatbot-arena-for-the-first-time/

Sam Altman's letter after his fire-rehire at OpenAI

https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/sam-altmans-letter-firerehire-openai

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/nvidia-passes-googles-market-cap-now-worlds-fourth-most-valuable-company/

GPT-4 architecture, datasets, costs and more leaked

https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-architecture-datasets-costs-and-more-leaked/

@emad announces Stability AI Memberships with core models commercially licensed, a Netflix for generative AI models

https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1729582128348664109

Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real

https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/

Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards | Federal Trade Commission

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/rite-aid-banned-using-ai-facial-recognition-after-ftc-says-retailer-deployed-technology-without

Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity to immediately join Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese per Marc Benioff on X

https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/1726695914105090498

Google debuts more powerful “Ultra 1.0” AI model in rebranded “Gemini” chatbot

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/google-debuts-more-powerful-ultra-1-0-ai-model-in-rebranded-gemini-chatbot/

Deepmind launches SynthID for Identifying AI-generated content with digital watermarks

https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/

Google upstages itself with Gemini 1.5 AI launch, one week after Ultra 1.0

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/google-upstages-itself-with-gemini-1-5-ai-launch-one-week-after-ultra-1-0/

Microsoft agrees to union contract terms on AI use in the workplace

https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-makes-history-by-agreeing-to-union-contract-terms-on-ai-use-in-the-workplace/

OpenAI in Sudden Leadership Shift: Mira Murati Steps Up as Interim CEO Amidst Uncertainty Over Sam Altman's Abrupt Departure

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

Unity opens closed beta for PolySpatial and visionOS support letting unity developers build for Apple Vision Pro

https://create.unity.com/spatial

Reddit cashes in on AI gold rush with $203M in LLM training license fees | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked-203m-in-revenue-licensing-data-for-ai-training/

Dudesy's AI Misfire: Admitting their Carlin special was human-penned, not AI, after lawsuit alleges routine rip-offs. | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/

Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/nvidia-ceo-calls-for-sovereign-ai-as-his-firm-overtakes-amazon-in-market-value/