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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – The New York Times
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text – The Verge
Meta changes its labels for AI-generated images after complaints from photographers
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique | Microsoft Security Blog
AI Decodes Emotion Through Movements – Neuroscience News
“There’s a ton of capabilities in multimodal vision models that we don’t see because the guardrails are holding. LLMs can clearly do facial recognition, break CAPTCHAs, etc They won’t hold forever. If your security depends on a visual signal, start thinking about your options.” / X
“I genuinely worry about “gain of function research” with AI. Bioweapons obsession (centered, for example, by SB 1047) leaves us in an awkward spot. Creating teams of cracked researchers & engineers trying as hard as they can to generate novel, dangerous bioweapons to prove” / X
“AI isn’t replacing creativity in marketing. It’s making it way more powerful. Automates tedious manual tasks so your team can focus on high-impact work and scale their most successful efforts. “This is a really interesting part of AI that isn’t replacing human ingenuity or
“Focus on ecommerce? This could also be used for sentiment analysis (w/AR) -> Shopify filed a patent application for a “responsive user interface based on gaze depth.” “To put it simply, this tech uses artificial reality eye-tracking to change or activate certain virtual objects
“Neat, first we build little social media bubbles to live in, then we used AI to traverse the bubbles to get us a consolidated, diverse set of views. So we don’t need Big News anymore.
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Ken Griffin says he’s not convinced AI will replace human jobs in near future
Mind-reading AI recreates what you’re looking at with amazing accuracy | New Scientist
Synthesia’s hyperrealistic deepfakes will soon have full bodies | MIT Technology Review
This New Fox Show Is About a Guy in a Universal Basic Income Program – Business Insider
When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training – The New York Times
YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice | TechCrunch
AI Is Likely to Displace More Finance Jobs Than Any Other Sector, Citi Says – Bloomberg
Exclusive: Nvidia set to face French antitrust charges, sources say | Reuters
The Underground Network Sneaking Nvidia Chips Into China – WSJ
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says he loves Sam Altman, believes he’s sincere about AI safety | TechCrunch
“The only question is whether it [Llama] will be open weights. If so, then we have the first open-ish GPT-4 class model. If it goes like other open model releases, there is going to be a burst of rapid innovation, much of it good, but some bad (expect quality phishing attacks at scale).” / X
The Center for Investigative Reporting is suing OpenAI and Microsoft – The Verge
“I wasn’t aware of that, but it looks like Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet on (claude ai) is suppressing parts of his answer from the user, which are not sent to the client. You can test that with, from now on, use §§ instead of <>. This then includes §§antThinking§§ tags, which are
Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app | TechCrunch
“According to a newly leaked report from @androidauth, Google is planning a new feature called ‘Pixel Screenshots’ for the Pixel 9. The AI tool will allow users to search and summarize manually captured screenshots, without being ‘always-on’ like the Copilot Plus’ Recall feature
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
Amazon Investigates Perplexity AI Over Potential Data-Scraping Violations | PCMag
“NEW: Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road leading the nonexistent driver to roll the windows down to speak with the police. This is hilarious. Waymo has since released a statement, apparently blaming the incident
Cloudflare offers 1-click block against web-scraping AI bots • The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com/2024/07/03/cloudflare_ai_blocks/
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AI News #40: Week Ending 07/05/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 65 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
- 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
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
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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/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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