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Elon Musk’s Plan For AI News – by Alex Kantrowitz

Musk emails with details on AI-powered news inside X. An AI bot will summarize news and commentary, sometimes looking through tens of thousands of posts per story.

https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/elon-musks-plan-for-ai-news

“EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s AI startup is set to close its funding round at a valuation of about $18 billion as soon as this week 

EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s AI startup is set to close its funding round at a valuation of about $18 billion as soon as this week https://t.co/Scn4pggnm6

— Bloomberg (@business) May 9, 2024

“New: @elonmusk emailed me about his plan for AI news on X. The idea is to use AI to blend breaking news and commentary, building real-time summaries of events. Then you can go deeper via chat on Grok. Here’s the full story! I’ll be talking more about this on Big Technology” / X

New: @elonmusk emailed me about his plan for AI news on X.

The idea is to use AI to blend breaking news and commentary, building real-time summaries of events. Then you can go deeper via chat on Grok.

Here's the full story! I'll be talking more about this on Big Technology…

— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) May 3, 2024

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Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #32: Week Ending 05/10/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 70 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

For previous issues, please visit the archives!

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