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The Center for Investigative Reporting is suing OpenAI and Microsoft – The Verge
Time strikes a deal to funnel 101 years of journalism into OpenAI’s gaping maw
Google AI Overviews: New Research Study by SE Ranking
Comparing pre and post-rollout results on 100K keywords
“THE LITTLE TECH AGENDA Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz July 5, 2024 Little Tech is our term for tech startups, as contrasted to Big Tech incumbents. Little Tech has run independent of politics for our entire careers. But, as the old Soviet joke goes, “You may not be interested” / X
Meta changes its labels for AI-generated images after complaints from photographers
Pro Search: Upgraded for more advanced problem-solving
“We’re excited to announce an updated version of our Pro Search that can perform deeper research on more complex queries with multi-step reasoning, Wolfram|Alpha, and code execution.
“@AndroidAuth Perplexity announced an updated version of Perplexity Pro Search. The AI search engine can now perform multi-step reasoning, use Wolfram|Alpha, and perform code execution on complex queries. The Perplexity team just keeps on shipping.
“@AndroidAuth ElevenLabs announced a new ‘Iconic Voices’ feature It allows users to have text read by AI-generated voices of Hollywood stars Most notably, the co. reached licensing agreements for the AI voices of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and more
Listen to your favorite books and articles voiced by Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier | ElevenLabs
“Introducing ElevenLabs Iconic Voices. Listen to your favorite books and articles voiced by Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier on our Reader App. The app is completely free to download and use. Get it here:
“Extract crystal-clear speech from any audio. Our vocal remover strips background noise for film, podcast, and interview post production.”
“Introducing Voice Isolator. Remove unwanted background noise and extract crystal clear dialogue from any audio to make your next podcast, interview, or film sound like it was recorded in the studio. Try it free:
“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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Cloudflare offers 1-click block against web-scraping AI bots • The Register
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 | TechCrunchhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/07/01/youtube-now-lets-you-request-removal-of-ai-generated-content-that-simulates-your-face-or-voice/
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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
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/
- 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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