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Just weeks after it’s launch of the AI Pin wearable hailed as a ‘smartphone killer’, Humane is now reportedly considering selling the company.

With several devices struggling with poor reviews and adoption, and vast upgrades coming to smartphones — is the wearable AI sector about to go bust? Let’s explore…

In today’s AI rundown:

Humane seeks buyer after AI Pin launch
Scientists plan a head transplant system
How to access Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash
Chameleon: Meta’s new multimodal LLM
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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HUMANE

📌 Humane seeks buyer after AI Pin launch

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The Rundown: Humane is reportedly exploring a potential sale of the company, just weeks after its highly-anticipated AI Pin wearable device launched to poor public reviews.

The details:

Humane's AI Pin, a magnetic device that clips onto clothing, was touted as a potential "smartphone killer".
The $699 device was criticized for issues with reliability, practicality, and its additional $24/month subscription fee.
As reported by Bloomberg, Humane is seeking a lofty sale price between $750M and $1B despite its rocky debut.
The company has raised $230M from notable investors, including Sam Altman, and was valued at $850M last year prior to the AI Pin’s launch.

Why it matters: Despite wearables like the AI Pin, Rabbit’s r1, and others hitting the market, we’ve yet to really see one truly break through to broader adoption. With AI rapidly coming on-device and Siri 2.0 on the way, our smartphones might just evolve to being the only AI device users really need.

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🛎️ Is AI About to Disrupt Hospitality?

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BRAINBRIDGE

🤯 Scientists plan a head transplant system

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The Rundown: Neuroscience startup BrainBridge just introduced a new concept for an AI-driven robotic system capable of performing head transplants — aiming to help patients with terminal illnesses and paralysis.

The details:

The CGI demo proposes a system that uses advanced robotics, AI, and real-time molecular imaging to transfer a patient’s head or face onto a donor body.
The company hopes to conduct the first surgery within eight years, and is releasing the concept early to attract top scientists.
A headband with a brain-computer interface (like Neuralink) would help patients communicate and execute tasks during recovery using their minds.

Why it matters: While the mind-blowing (🥁) system seems highly speculative and more sci-fi than reality — so did Neuralink’s brain chips. While we’re likely a long way from this becoming possible, with the rate of advancement in robotics and AI it’s tough to rule anything out over the next decade.

AI TRAINING

⚡ How to access Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash

The Rundown: Google just released Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lightweight AI model optimized for speed and efficiency, with multimodal reasoning and an impressive 1M context window.

Step-by-step:

Go to Google's AI Studio and sign in with your Google account.
Select "Gemini 1.5 Flash" from the "Models" dropdown menu.
Configure the run settings (temperature, token count, stop sequences, safety) and system instructions to your needs.
Type your prompt and click "Run" to generate high-quality results, fast!

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🦎 Chameleon: Meta’s new multimodal LLM

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The Rundown: Meta’s AI research lab just introduced Chameleon, a new family of ‘early-fusion token-based’ AI models that can both understand and generate text and images in any order.

The details:

Unlike other models that process image and text separately and then combine them later, Chameleon works with linked sequences of both.
Chameleon outperformed all rival models on image captioning and visual questions, while still matching performance on text-only.
The 34B parameter Chameleon also matched or outperformed top models like Gemini Pro and GPT-4V on tests of long-form mixed-modal generations.

Why it matters: Chameleon shows the potential for a different type of architecture for multimodal AI models, with its early-fusion approach enabling more seamless reasoning and generation across modalities and setting new performance bars.

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TikTok launched a new ‘Symphony’ AI suite for advertisers, introducing tools like the Creative Studio to generate videos, Assistant for scriptwriting, and Ads Manager to optimize videos.

IBM announced it will open-source its Granite AI models, also partnering with Saudi Arabia to train its ALLaM Arabic language model using the company’s Watsonx tool.

Amazon is reportedly set to launch an advanced AI-powered Alexa, with plans to charge a monthly fee separate from Prime subscriptions.

Nvidia reported its Q2 earnings, beating estimates and sending the company’s market valuation to over $2.3T — with CEO Jensen Huang saying the company will make new AI chips in a ‘one-year-rhythm’.

Mark Zuckerberg created an advisory group to guide Meta on AI advancements and opportunities, featuring GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, investor Charlie Songhurst, and CEOs from Shopify and Stripe.

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Microsoft's new AI 'Recalls' everything

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Microsoft just kicked off its Build event, unveiling the Copilot+ Recall feature, a new multimodal model, a slew of partnerships, and even AI agents.

But despite the massive potential and mind-blowing unlocks — is a privacy-focused world ready to embrace an always-watching AI? Let’s dig deeper…

In today’s AI rundown:

Microsoft’s new AI era
Scale AI scores massive $1B funding
Anthropic’s optimized prompt generator
Research: Mapping the ‘mind’ of an LLM
7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MICROSOFT

🚀 Microsoft’s new AI era

Image source: The Verge

The Rundown: Microsoft just kicked off its Build developer event, providing details on new AI features like Copilot+ Recall, a slew of new partnerships, a new multimodal Phi-3 model, the introduction of agent capabilities, and more.

The details:

CEO Satya Nadella expanded on the new Recall feature, which will run locally and take constant screenshots to remember user actions on Copilot+ PCs.
A new Phi-3-vision multimodal model is now available, along with the general availability of previously unveiled Phi-3-small and Phi-3-medium.
The company introduced Team Copilot, an AI agent to assist users in Microsoft apps, and Copilot Studio, a tool for developers to create and deploy AI agents.
Microsoft also announced a deal with Khan Academy, granting access to AI tools for all U.S. educators.

Why it matters: Microsoft continues its major week, continuing to deliver direct shots at Apple in its quest to take down the MacBook’s dominance. The ‘Recall’ feature feels like the biggest wildcard — with massive potential, but also requiring major trust from customers to embrace an always-watching AI.

For more info on Microsoft’s announcements, check out Monday’s newsletter.

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SCALE AI

💰 Scale AI scores massive $1B funding

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The Rundown: AI data-labeling startup Scale AI, which provides clean data to companies training advanced AI models, just raised a whopping $1B in Series F funding — valuing the company at nearly $14B.

The details:

Scale provides labeled data for AI training in sectors including autonomous vehicles, defense, and major GenAI models.
The round was led by existing investor Accel, with participation from new investors, including Amazon, Meta, and others.
Scale AI's revenue tripled in 2023 and is expected to reach $1.4B by the end of 2024.
Scale said the new raise will help ‘accelerate the abundance of frontier data’ that will pave the road to AGI.

Why it matters: Scale’s rapid growth shows that AI is nothing without usable data — and as systems continue to improve, that need will only grow. With an eye-popping company valuation, Scale is yet another example of how many different avenues to success are available for building in the AI boom.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Anthropic’s optimized prompt generator

The Rundown: Anthropic recently launched an incredible prompt engineering tool that generates optimized prompts to start a chat, based on a user’s specific goals.

Step-by-step:

Head over to Anthropic’s Console and sign up/log in.
Select the ‘Generate a prompt’ option to access the prompt creation interface.
Clearly describe your goal or task in the provided text box and click ‘Generate Prompt’ to let Anthropic craft your optimized prompt.
Select ‘Start Editing’, replace {variables} with your specific details, and click ‘Run’ once your prompt is ready.

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AI RESEARCH

🗺️ Research: Mapping the ‘mind’ of an LLM

Image source: Anthropic

The Rundown: Anthropic just published new research that successfully identified and mapped millions of human-interpretable concepts, called “features”, within the neural networks of Claude.

The details:

Researchers used a technique called ‘dictionary learning’ to isolate patterns that corresponded to concepts, from objects to abstract ideas.
By tweaking the patterns, the researchers showed the ability to change Claude’s outputs, potentially leading to more controllable systems.
The team mapped concepts related to AI safety concerns, like deception and power-seeking — providing glimpses into how models understand these issues.

Why it matters: Despite how fast AI is accelerating, we still don’t have a strong understanding of what’s going on beneath the hood of LLMs. This research is a major step towards making AI more transparent — enabling better understanding, control, and safeguarding of these powerful tools.

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Google shared new demos of upcoming releases, including its Project Astra multimodal agents solving math equations and a series of outputs from its Veo video generation model.

Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly progressing towards multimodal capabilities for its Grok chatbot, which was teased in a blog post last month as part of the upcoming 1.5V model release.

French AI startup H announced $220M in funding to develop advanced AGI that can automate complex business tasks, with investors including Bernard Arnault and Eric Schmidt.

Europe’s landmark AI Act passed its final hurdle after endorsement by the EU, which will bring comprehensive rules, strict fines, and new restrictions on high-risk AI apps.

Suno raised $125M in funding for its AI music generation platform, aiming to increase product development and expand the company.

Google announced that its new data analysis feature in Gemini Advanced is now live, allowing users to upload Google Sheets, CSVs, and Excel files for data exploration.

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Microsoft's AI-first MacBook rival

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Did an AI infusion just reignite the old Windows vs. Mac rivalry?

Microsoft just unveiled Copilot+ PCs, with features that inch closer to ever-present AI assistants — and put major pressure on Apple to step up its AI game. Let’s dive in…

In today’s AI rundown:

Microsoft unveils ‘AI-first‘ PCs
Dell doubles down on AI with Nvidia
Master AI image prompting through gaming
CAA protects celebrity AI identities
7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MICROSOFT

💻 Microsoft unveils ‘AI-first‘ PCs

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The Rundown: Microsoft just introduced a whirlwind of AI announcements ahead of its BUILD conference, including the world’s first ‘AI-first’ PCs, a feature that allows Copilot to speak, ‘Recall’ to remember everything you’ve done on your screen, and more.

The details:

A new system enables Copilot+ PCs to run AI workloads up to 20x faster and 100x more efficiently than traditional PCs.
Windows 11 has been rearchitected specifically for AI, integrating the Copilot assistant directly into the OS.
New AI experiences include a new feature called Recall, which allows users to search for anything they’ve seen on their screen with natural language.
Copilot’s new screen-sharing feature allows AI to watch, hear, and understand what a user is doing on their computer and answer questions in real-time.
Copilot+ PCs will start at $999, and ship with OpenAI's latest GPT-4o models.

Why it matters: Tony Stark’s all-powerful JARVIS AI assistant is getting closer to reality every day. Once Copilot, ChatGPT, Project Astra, or anyone else can not only respond but start executing tasks autonomously, things will start getting really exciting — and likely initiate a whole new era of tech work.

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DELL & NVIDIA

🤝 Dell doubles down on AI with Nvidia

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The Rundown: Dell just announced an expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, alongside the release of new servers, PCs, and services to enhance the company’s AI offerings.

The details:

New Dell PowerEdge servers support NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs to handle AI tasks, offering fast processing and improved efficiency.
Dell and Nvidia’s AI Factory is an enterprise solution to help organizations simplify and accelerate AI adoption, reportedly reducing setup time by 86%.
The company is launching a new GenAI solution for organizations to deploy personalized digital assistants.
Dell is also launching new solutions for organizations to set up and locally run AI applications.

Why it matters: As businesses increasingly recognize the transformative potential of AI, Dell is positioning itself as a key partner in assisting organizations in navigating the complexities of the tech’s adoption — especially with the helping hand of a powerhouse like Nvidia.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Master AI image prompting through gaming

The Rundown: Google recently created a free interactive game that teaches you how to craft effective prompts for AI image generation.

Step-by-step:

Head over to Google's ‘Say What You See’ game and click on ‘Start Level 1.’
On each level, you’ll be given different images. Identify the key elements in the target image and write them in the prompt box.
The AI will generate an image with your prompt and compare it to the target image.
To advance to the next level, you need to get more than a 50% match. If you fail, the AI will give you tips on how to improve.

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⭐️ CAA protects celebrity AI identities

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The Rundown: Creative Artists Agency just teamed up with Veritone to provide a solution for its clients' AI likenesses — aiming to protect consent, credit, and compensation rights for Hollywood and broader media.

The details:

“The CAA Vault" is a system that allows clients to store digital assets like names, images, digital scans, and voice recordings to create AI clones.
The partnership with Veritone ensures secure storage and authorized access to clients' data.
The move comes amid growing concerns over the misuse of celebrities' digital likenesses without proper consent or compensation.

Why it matters: A major agency like CAA making proactive moves to both enable and protect high-profile clients’ AI likenesses is a great indicator of how widespread the tech is about to become. Secure, controlled monetization of digital clones could also change the conversation around AI’s use in the industry.

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OpenAI is pausing the use of the female ‘Sky’ voice featured during the company’s recent demo, following negativity surrounding its resemblance to Scarlett Johansson and the film ‘Her’.

Lmsys introduced a ‘Hard Prompts’ category in its Arena chatbot testing, aiming to help better evaluate models on more complex, problem-solving-oriented questions.

Inflection announced its new leadership team and pivoted focus on bringing empathetic, emotionally intelligent AI to enterprises via an API program.

Elon Musk commented on how AI will impact X’s feed algorithm, saying that the platform will soon move to a ‘fully AI-based post recommendation system’.

Microsoft’s Copilot appears to be sourcing some responses via advertisements, raising questions on the ethics of how LLM responses and ads will coexist in the future.

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton said that universal basic income will be a necessity to address job losses and inequality caused by AI.

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OpenAI dissolves AI safety team

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The shake-up at OpenAI continues, with the reported dissolution of the AI safety team following the departures of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike.

While some cheer the move as a push towards acceleration, others see the future of responsible AI development hanging in the balance. Let’s investigate…

In today’s AI rundown:

OpenAI dissolves AI safety team
Apple and OpenAI plan major announcement
Easily ingest user data for your AI app
DINO 1.5 advances AI object detection
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

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OPENAI

🚨 OpenAI dissolves AI safety team

Image source: Ilya Sutskever on X

The Rundown: OpenAI has reportedly effectively dissolved its AI safety team focused on long-term risks, following the departure of key leaders Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike last week.

The details:

The Superalignment team, formed less than a year ago to ensure the safety of future AI systems, will reportedly be integrated into broader research efforts.
Ilya and Leike both resigned last week following months of tension — with Leike citing disagreements over the company's core priorities.
Leike stated that safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to "shiny products", and OpenAI must become a "safety-first AGI company."
President Greg Brockman posted a response to Leike’s claims on X, reiterating the company’s commitment to AI safety.

Why it matters: Another week, another round of OpenAI drama. The disbanding of the superalignment team is a polarizing one — raising major concerns from more cautious AI factions that want safety as a focus while drawing cheers from those that want acceleration at any cost.

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APPLE & OPENAI

🍎 Apple and OpenAI plan major announcement

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The Rundown: As reported by Bloomberg, Apple and OpenAI are planning a major joint announcement at WWDC on June 10th to bring OpenAI’s AI tech to iOS 18.

The details:

Apple recognizes the need for a chatbot to compete with rivals but believes its own genAI tech isn't advanced enough.
To bridge this gap, Apple is partnering with OpenAI to integrate the startup's AI into the next version of the iPhone's software, iOS 18.
The partnership will complement Apple's homegrown AI features, which include an improved Siri, auto-summarizing notifications, "proactive intelligence", and more.

Why it matters: After months of back-and-forth between both Google and OpenAI, Apple has finally decided to team up with OpenAI. With Siri 2.0, proactive intelligence, and other major AI features coming to an iPhone near you, WWDC might be “Christmas come early“ for the AI community.

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Build background jobs for real-time updates via managed webhooks or CRON jobs and embed the white-labeled authentication modal in your app via the SDK.
Inject the data chunks into your initial prompt and pass it on to your LLMs to generate the final response!

📈 Study: Trust in AI drives business results

The Rundown: Salesforce's recent "Your Data, Your AI" study, which surveyed nearly 6,000 workers across nine countries, revealed the critical role of trust in AI data for driving business outcomes.

Key findings:

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AI RESEARCH

👁️ DINO 1.5 advances AI object detection

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The Rundown: IDEA Research just unveiled Grounding DINO 1.5, a set of AI models that can accurately detect and ID objects in images and videos without specified training.

The details:

DINO 1.5 has two models — Pro for a wide variety of tasks and scenarios and Edge optimized for running on devices like smartphones.
The models were trained on over 20M curated and labeled images, allowing to reliably detect a variety of real-world objects.
DINO 1.5 Pro achieved record-breaking accuracy in testing, correctly identifying objects it hadn’t seen before up to 55.7% of the time.

Why it matters: DINO 1.5 is a major step towards AI object detection systems that are accurate and efficient enough to be used in the real world. These systems will pave the way for more reliable robotics, self-driving vehicles, automated surveillance, and more while requiring less training time and data.

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QUICK HITS

Google just released the full technical report on its Gemini 1.5 model family, showcasing improvements in math, coding, and multimodal benchmarks, with 1.5 Pro also surpassing Ultra in most text and vision tasks.

OpenAI is rolling out new data analysis tools in ChatGPT, including interactive and customizable charts and tools to simplify tasks like merging datasets and creating pivot tables.

Synthesia announced a new partnership with ElevenLabs, offering Enterprise users access to natural-sounding voices and personalized voice cloning to create more immersive video content.

OpenAI appears to be opening an office in France, with current job listings hiring in Paris and a developer event in the region this week.

Stability AI is reportedly in talks with a ‘large tech investor syndicate’ that includes former Facebook president Sean Parker, seeking a major equity investment.

OpenAI’s May 16th trademark filing for GPT-4o frequently mentions agents, including ‘virtual, autonomous, semi-autonomous, and intelligent’ variations.

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Control your iPhone using AI-eyes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

With Apple’s new eye-tracking AI feature coming to iOS 18, users will be able to control iPads and iPhones with just their eyes.

Between ChatGPT’s new voice upgrades, Project Astra, and now Apple’s eye tracking, it’s been a HUGE week for AI accessibility. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

Apple’s iOS 18 eye-tracking AI
ChatGPT gets real-time Reddit access
How to bring logo sketches to life
Sony Music warns AI developers
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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APPLE

👀 Apple’s iOS 18 eye-tracking AI

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The Rundown: Apple just announced a slew of new accessibility features coming to iOS 18, including AI-powered Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, Vocal Shortcuts, and more.

The details:

Eye Tracking allows users to control an iPad or iPhone using just their eyes, without the need for additional hardware or accessories.
Music Haptics will enable users to experience music through the iPhone's Taptic Engine.
Vocal Shortcuts will let users assign custom phrases that Siri can understand to launch shortcuts and execute tasks.
The new features are set to go live later this year with software updates like iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.

Why it matters: While it does seem like a party trick, AI-powered eye-tracking could be a major unlock in extending accessibility for users with physical disabilities. With a slew of AI features now on the way (and a rumored OpenAI partnership), Apple’s WWDC conference on June 10th will be on high alert for the AI community.

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OPENAI & REDDIT

🤝 ChatGPT gets real-time Reddit access

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The Rundown: OpenAI just signed a deal to access real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which will now allow OpenAI to link discussions from the site within ChatGPT.

The details:

OpenAI will have access to Reddit's Data API, providing real-time, structured, and unique content from the platform.
In return, Reddit will leverage OpenAI's technology to build new AI-powered features for its users and mods.
OpenAI will also become a Reddit advertising partner as part of the agreement.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but Reddit signed a similar deal with Google earlier this year reportedly worth $60 million.

Why it matters: With the new partnership, ChatGPT will be able to compete with the way xAI’s Grok has automatic news updates through X by using Reddit news. Also, OpenAI’s upcoming AI Search chatbot will likely benefit in a big way from Reddit’s real-time information.

AI TRAINING

🎨 How to bring logo sketches to life

The Rundown: Adobe Firefly can turn your logo sketches into rendered images for free using a new feature called “Structure Reference”.

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Head over to Adobe Firefly’s website and create a free account.
Select a logo sketch that will serve as a reference.
Upload it on the left bar where it says ‘Structure’.
Edit the prompt to closely match your desired picture and experiment with other settings, such as aspect ratio, style, effects, or angle.
Click ‘Generate’ and it will provide you with multiple images to choose from 🎉

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SONY MUSIC

🚨 Sony Music warns AI developers

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The Rundown: Sony Music, the world's second-largest music group, is sending warning letters to over 700 AI developers, restricting unauthorized use of its artists' content for training, developing, or commercializing AI systems.

The details:

Sony Music's letter expressly prohibits AI developers from using its music, which includes artists such as Harry Styles, Adele, and Beyoncé.
The letter is being sent to major AI companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Suno, and Udio.
Separate letters are being sent to Spotify and Apple, asking them to protect artists and songwriters from unauthorized AI use.
Sony Music believes its music may have already been used without permission.

Why it matters: Sony is taking a strong stance to make sure it’s views around AI training on unothorized content are heard. But with developers craving for fresh training data, and no clear regulations in sight — the lawsuits will likely only continue to get worse.

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QUICK HITS

OpenAI cofounder John Schulman predicted that AGI could arrive in two to three years, with AI models autonomously carrying out entire coding projects in one to two years.

Hugging Face commits $10 million in free shared GPUs through its new ZeroGPU program to help developers, academics, and startups create AI apps without the burden of GPU costs.

Researchers in the Netherlands have built an AI-driven sarcasm detector, aiming to improve human-machine communication and potentially detect abuse and hate speech.

Stability AI is reportedly facing a cash crunch and has been discussing a potential sale as it struggles to generate revenue and manage expenses.

Ampere Computing and Qualcomm announced a partnership to offer a combined AI chip solution aimed at lowering power consumption in data centers.

Researchers from MIT and University of Basel developed a physics-informed AI to automatically map out phase diagrams for novel physical systems, potentially aiding in the discovery of unknown phases of matter.

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OpenAI co-founder officially leaves

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

OpenAI is nothing without its people… But what happens when they keep leaving?

AI safety team leaders Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike just resigned — reopening a chapter that left the world with more questions than answers. Let’s investigate.

In today’s AI rundown:

Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAI
Join us live: GPT-4o workshop
Android phones enter the AI era
How to clone your voice using AI
Report: Gen Z and Millennials optimistic on AI
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

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OPENAI

😱 Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAI

Image source: Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut on X)

The Rundown: OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced that he is leaving the company — following months of speculation of Sutskever’s role from the November 2023 Sam Altman ousting.

The details:

Sutskever said he is confident that OpenAI will ‘build AGI that is both safe and beneficial’ under the current leadership.
Also leaving is Sutskever’s superalignment group co-lead Jan Leike, announcing his departure with a cryptic resignation post.
The news follows months of departures largely coming from OpenAI’s superalignment and safety teams, fueling speculation.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Jakub Pachocki as the new chief scientist, a key researcher on the creation of GPT-4.

Why it matters: After months of tensions, the speculation around Ilya’s future with Sam is finally put to rest. But questions surrounding the safety team departures still remain. Also important to watch is where Sutskever and Leike land next, with two of AI’s brightest minds now officially on the market.

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🎓️ Join us live: GPT-4o workshop

The Rundown: GPT-4o just launched, and tomorrow we’re going hands on to teach you everything you need to know about it in our weekly live workshop.

Learn about:

The difference between GPT-4o and GPT-4, and how to access it.
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The workshop will be beginner-friendly and does not require coding skills.

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GOOGLE

📱 Android phones enter the AI era

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The Rundown: Google announced a host of new AI integrations coming to Android phones at its I/O Developer Conference, bringing its powerful Gemini model on-device to enable upgraded smartphone experiences.

The details:

Google’s Gemini Nano model will be integrated into the Pixel later this year, allowing for enhanced multimodal capabilities.
Gemini features will be easily accessible with a new overlay, which improves and understand context to provide dynamic suggestions.
A Circle to Search feature, allowing users to query anything on screen, gains homework help features via a LearnLM model.
Google is also bringing a new AI security feature soon, providing real-time alerts on calls that appear to be scams.

Why it matters: While everyone awaits the iPhone AI announcements, Google’s Android AI era is rolling. With Gemini coming directly on-board, the potential is there — but if Apple integrates ChatGPT, it may remain tough sledding against the dominant market leader.

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🗣️ How to clone your voice using AI

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Access OpenVoice on Replicate here and log in with your GitHub account.
Upload the audio file of the voice you want to clone where it says ‘audio’. The longer, the better.
Fill the ‘Text’ field with the text you want to convert into a speech.
Click on the ‘Run’ button and listen/download the generated audio with the cloned voice!

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DELOITTE

📊 Report: Gen Z and Millennials optimistic on AI

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The Rundown: Deloitte just released its 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, polling 23,000 workers across 44 countries — revealing cautious optimism on the coming AI wave but broader concerns on future job security.

The details:

Frequent AI users believed GenAI use would improve work/life balance, enhance work, and free up time.
60% of workers said AI-driven automation would eliminate jobs in the future, with power users sharing higher concerns than non-users.
Only 45% of millennials and 51% of Gen Z respondents felt their employers were providing sufficient training on AI.
Despite the current lack of training, 59% of Gen Z and 57% of millennials reported plans to reskill to adapt to AI’s career impacts.

Why it matters: Millennials and Gen Z workers are about to live through the most drastic change in work in modern history, and many seem to already grasp what may be needed to compete in the future — even if their employers don’t.

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QUICK HITS

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger announced that he is joining Anthropic as the company’s Chief Product Officer.

ElevenLabs launched its first consumer app called Reader: AI Audio, capable of reading web pages, PDFs, and other documents in 11 different voices.

Hume AI unveiled Chatter, an interactive voice AI podcast that uses real-time web search to provide daily news updates.

U.S. senators released its AI policy roadmap, calling for at least $32B in funding annually to maintain AI leadership and outcompete China.

D’Youville University held a graduation ceremony on Saturday that featured an AI robot named Sophia as the commencement speaker, drawing mixed reactions form students.

Microsoft’s focus on AI has reportedly increased its carbon emissions by 30%, challenging the company’s commitment to becoming carbon-negative by 2030.

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Google I/O's AI avalanche

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google’s highly anticipated I/O Developer Conference just got rolling — and day one already featured an avalanche of new AI announcements.

From huge Gemini model updates, a new video generation model, AI agents and more, the tech giant just took things to a whole new level. Let’s break it all down…

In today’s AI rundown:

Google’s Gemini updates and Sora competitor
New AI agents and AI search upgrades
Use ChatGPT's highlighting for context
Ilya Sutskever officially quits OpenAI
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

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GOOGLE

🎥 Google’s Gemini updates and Sora competitor

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The Rundown: Google just kicked off its I/O Developer’s Conference, announcing a wide array of updates across its AI ecosystem — including enhancements across its flagship Gemini model family and a new video generation model to rival OpenAI’s Sora.

Gemini model updates:

New updates to 1.5 Pro include a massive 2M context window extension and enhanced performance in code, logic, and image understanding.
Gemini 1.5 Pro can also utilize the long context to analyze a range media types, including documents, videos, audio, and codebases.
Google announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new model optimized for speed and efficiency with a context window of 1M tokens.
Gemma 2, the next generation of Google’s open-source models, is launching in the coming weeks, along with a new vision-language model called PaliGemma.
Gemini Advanced subscribers can soon create customized personas called ‘Gems’ from a simple text description, similar to ChatGPT GPTs.

Video and image model upgrades:

Google revealed a new video model called Veo, capable of generating over 60-second, 1080p resolution videos from text, image, and video prompts.
The new Imagen 3 text-to-image model was also unveiled with better detail, text generation, and natural language understanding than its predecessor.
VideoFX text-to-video tool, featuring storyboard scene-by-scene creation and the ability to add music to generations.
VideoFX is launching in a ‘private preview’ in the U.S. for select creators, while ImageFX (with Imagen 3) is available to try via a waitlist.

Why it matters: Gemini’s already industry-leading context window gets a 2x boost, enabling endless new opportunities to utilize AI with massive amounts of information. Additionally, Sora officially has competition with the impressive Veo demo — but which one will make it to public access first?

Google’s announcements were too big to fit in one section — keep scrolling for more updates from I/O.

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GOOGLE

🔎 Google’s AI agents and AI search upgrades

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The Rundown: Google just showcased its new AI agent project ‘Project Astra’, alongside a slew of updates to infuse AI across search and enable Gemini to reason and take more advanced actions for users.

Progress on AI agents:

Google announced Project Astra, a real-time AI agent prototype that can see, hear, and take actions on a user’s behalf.
The demo showcased a voice assistant responding to what it sees and hears, including code, images, and video — capable of advanced reasoning and recall.
Public access for Astra is expected through the Gemini app later this year.
Google also showed off ‘AI teammates’, agents that can answer questions on emails, meetings, and other data within Workspace.
Live is also rolling out in the coming months, allowing users to speak and converse with Gemini in near real-time.

Search upgrades:

Google Search now features expanded AI Overviews, advanced planning capabilities, and AI-organized search results.
Gemini will be able to execute more complex planning, such as planning, maintaining, and updating trip itineraries.
Search will also receive ‘multi-step reasoning’ capabilities, allowing Gemini to break down questions and speed up research.
Users can also now ask questions with video, allowing Search to analyze visual content and provide helpful AI Overviews.

Why it matters: We officially have a new voice assistant battle — with OpenAI and Google both showcasing mind-blowing new capabilities in just the last two days alone.

Also, despite rumblings of an OpenAI search product and excitement over platforms like Perplexity, it’s going to be difficult to unseat the king of search. Especially as they integrate advanced AI across the entire ecosystem in an impressive fashion.

See Google’s I/O keynote and more footage from the conference here.

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🤖 Use ChatGPT's highlighting for context

The Rundown: ChatGPT now allows you to highlight parts of its responses for quick follow-up questions, partial response rewrites, reusing old context, and more.

Step-by-step:

Prompt ChatGPT and generate a response.
Highlight relevant parts of the response you want to follow-up on and click the double quote icon above the highlighted text.
The highlighted text will be automatically added in the next prompt so you can ask for clarification, rewrites, counterpoints, and more.

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QUICK HITS

OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving the company, with both he and CEO Sam Altman sharing the news via posts on X.

TikTok is testing AI-generated search results using ChatGPT for in-app search queries like recipes and tech recommendations with a new "search highlights" feature at the top of results pages.

Google announced Trillium, its 6th-generation TPUs that deliver 4.7x the performance of the previous model for advanced AI model training and tasks.

Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly nearing a $10B deal with Oracle to rent cloud servers in an effort to compete with AI rivals like OpenAI and Google.

Entrepreneur and All In host David Sacks launched Glue, a new startup that provides AI services that integrate with apps like Google Meet and Zoom.

Verizon announced new AI tools to enhance customer service, including a personal research assistant, resolution ‘Fast Pass,’ and in-store experiences to streamline support and customer satisfaction.

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ChatGPT's new voice

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

A new future of how we interact with AI is here, and it's speaking loud and clear.

OpenAI just dropped its impressive new ‘GPT-4o’ model, alongside new voice capabilities you have to see (and hear) to believe. Let’s break it down…

In today’s AI rundown:

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o and new voice capabilities
Meta developing AI-powered ‘Camerabuds’
Create a website in seconds with AI
7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news

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OPENAI

🗣️ OpenAI unveils GPT-4o and new voice capabilities

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The Rundown: OpenAI just unveiled GPT-4o, a new advanced multimodal model that integrates text, vision and audio processing, setting new benchmarks for performance – alongside a slew of new features.

The new model:

GPT-4o provides improved performance across text, vision, audio, coding, and non-English generations, smashing GPT-4T’s performance.
The new model is 50% cheaper to use, has 5x higher rate limits than GPT-4T, and boasts 2x the generation speed of previous models.
The new model was also revealed to be the mysterious ‘im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot’ found in the Lmsys Arena last week.

Voice and other upgrades:

New voice capabilities include real-time responses, detecting and responding with emotion, and combining voice with text and vision.
The demo showcased feats like real-time translation, two AI models analyzing a live video, and using voice and vision for tutoring and coding assistance.
OpenAI’s blog also detailed advances like 3D generation, font creation, huge improvements to text generation within images, sound effect synthesis, and more.
OpenAI also announced a new ChatGPT desktop app for macOS with a refreshed UI, integrating directly into computer workflows.

Free for everyone:

GPT-4o, GPTs, and features like memory and data analysis are now available to all users, bringing advanced capabilities to the free tier for the first time.
The GPT-4o model is currently rolling out to all users in ChatGPT and via the API, with the new voice capabilities expected to arrive over the coming weeks.

Why it matters: Real-time voice and multimodal capabilities are shifting AI from a tool, to an intelligence we collaborate, learn, and grow with. Additionally, a whole new group of free users (who might’ve been stuck with a lackluster GPT 3.5) are about to get the biggest upgrade of their lives in the form of GPT-4o.

If you missed it, you can rewatch OpenAI’s full demo here.

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🎧 Meta developing AI-powered ‘Camerabuds’

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The Rundown: Meta is reportedly in the early stages of developing AI-powered earphones, known internally as "Camerabuds,” — aiming to compete with OpenAI and Apple as tech giants rush to infuse AI into wearable devices.

The details:

‘Camerabuds’ would map user surroundings, capable of identifying objects and translating foreign languages using built-in cameras.
Meta already has its AI-powered Ray Ban smart glasses, while OpenAI and Apple are also exploring similar AI wearable earbud tech.
Potential challenges include bulkiness, heat generation, and privacy concerns, especially for users with long hair that might obstruct the cameras.

Why it matters: Despite Meta’s shaky track record with hardware ventures, Mark Zuckerberg is investing heavily in a future that he believes includes AI embedded into every device. But will standalone devices like this be able to win over users if and when a fully AI-integrated phone hits the market?

AI TRAINING

🖥️ Create a website in seconds with AI

The Rundown: Gamma’s free AI website builder helps users create websites in seconds by simply describing what they want – no coding skills required.

Step-by-step:

Head over to Gamma and sign up for free.
On the left-hand menu, select “Sites” and then press “Create Site”
You’ll be directed to a menu where you can either choose a given prompt or describe your website in detail.
Pick your theme, edit it as much as you want with its no-code interface, and hit “Publish”.

Hot tip: Gamma can also generate images for your website!

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