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Microsoft AI News: Week Ending 06/14/2024

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US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/us-agencies-to-probe-ai-dominance-of-nvidia-microsoft-and-openai

GPT Builder is being retired – Microsoft Support

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/gpt-builder-is-being-retired-d1de6c3a-4c7a-4bcd-98ff-2f65f3d23cd1

Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. | by Kevin Beaumont | May, 2024 | DoublePulsar

https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e

Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step. – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-nadella-openai-inflection-9727e77a?st=8kan7s8rxto660t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“Researchers from Microsoft, Google, MIT, and Oxford released new research presenting DenseAV. It’s an AI algorithm that learns the meaning of words and sounds by watching videos, and can help better understand animal communication and discover language. 

“Microsoft presents VALL-E 2 Achieves human parity zero-shot TTS performance for the first time 

“DenseAV is an algorithm capable of discovering the meaning of language and locations of sounds just by watching unlabeled videos. DenseAV is completely unsupervised and never sees text during its training. Learn more: 

Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash | WIRED

https://archive.md/qXX6C

Microsoft’s new AI ‘Recalls’ everything

https://www.therundown.ai/p/microsofts-total-recall

“Microsoft researchers introduced Aurora, a new foundation model trained on over 1M hours of weather and climate data The 1.3B parameter model can reportedly generate a 5-day global air pollution prediction in under 60 seconds https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1799834801983181298

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AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read 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.

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