Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

AI had a massive presence at one of the world’s most-watched media events over the weekend.

From Microsoft’s Copilot to Minions generating AI videos (yes, really) — the first Super Bowl game in the AI era did not disappoint. Let’s dive in…

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI takes spotlight in Super Bowl commercials

• Altman seeks TRILLIONS for global AI chip initiative

• How to generate and edit DALL-E 3 images in Copilot

• Enabling AI to understand long videos

• 7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

THE SUPER BOWL

🏈 AI takes spotlight in Super Bowl commercials

Image source: BodyArmor

The Rundown: AI made a splash in this year's Super Bowl commercials, with companies showcasing both its benefits and its potential for absurdity during the first big game in the artificial intelligence era.

The details:

• Microsoft’s Copilot spot (which we wrote about last week) showcased its AI assistant to the masses.

• A Google Pixel spot highlighted a new AI ‘Guided Frame’ feature helping blind or low vision users to more easily take photos.

• Illumination took a shot at AI video while promoting the upcoming ‘Despicable Me 4’ film, featuring Minions prompting comically bad generations.

• A HeGetsUs ad of people washing feet (🤔) faced heavy criticism, including speculation that the images were AI-generated — though Ad Age reported they were real photographs.

• BodyArmor’s ‘Field of Fake’ took a jab at AI generations, showing low-quality AI videos while pushing its ‘real sweeteners’ over ‘artificial’ alternatives.

• Etsy’s commercial showed off its Gift Mode feature, an AI recommendation tool to help users curate gift ideas.

Why it matters: While AI-related ads have been rampant over the last year, its Super Bowl presence is a big mainstream moment. The wide range of commercials is also representative of the mixed sentiment across the country — with many brands and people still conflicted on how to feel about the tech.

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OPENAI

💰 Altman seeks TRILLIONS for global AI chip initiative

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The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly angling to raise TRILLIONS of dollars to reshape the semiconductor industry and massively boost global chip-building capacity to support AI development.

The details:

• Altman is said to be looking for between $5-7 trillion to ramp up global AI chip production, hoping to address both current and future projected shortages.

• Discussions are reportedly underway with investors like the UAE government, with plans also involving partnerships with chipmakers like TMSC.

• Altman wants OpenAI to be the primary customer of the new initiative, though US concerns over foreign tech influence could complicate plans.

Why it matters: Altman once tweeted that ‘nobody can out-accelerate him’, and aiming to raise nearly 10% of the world’s GDP would seem to back that up! Altman’s ambitions also show he sees AGI creation as a supply problem, not a tech/innovation one.

AI TRAINING

🌅 How to generate and edit Dall-E 3 images in Copilot

Image source: DALLE—3

The Rundown: Microsoft Copilot AI now supports inline image editing and styling and has improved prompt suggestions for DALL-E 3 images. This means you can now edit images directly within Copolit!

Step-by-step:

1. Head to Microsoft Copilot.

2. Enter a prompt to create your desired image.

3. Select your preferred image to change the style or elements using a menu of options.

4. Edit the background of the image, such as adding “Blur“ or “Color pop“ by moving your mouse over the image and selecting the main subject.

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AI RESEARCH

🎥 Enabling AI to understand long videos

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The Rundown: Researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Cornell just developed a method for AI systems to comprehend events across longer videos better.

The details:

• Currently, most video AI models are limited to short clip lengths due to both the complexity and computing needed.

• The new method, called MC-ViT, stores a compressed "memory” of past video segments, allowing the model to efficiently reference past events.

• The methodology is inspired by human memory consolidation theories from psychology and neuroscience.

• The system achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in tasks like action recognition and question answering, despite using far less resources than comparable and much-larger models.

Why it matters: Enabling AI to understand longer videos is a necessary step forward for expanding its reasoning and real-world application use cases. Even more impressive is accomplishing it with lower computing and off-the-shelf transformers — continuing to push boundaries in AI with fewer resources.

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QUICK HITS

Researchers introduced AiSee, a a wearable device which utilizes a camera, AI algorithms, and bone conduction headphones to help visually impaired individuals "see" and understand their surroundings.

Pika Labs released a Valentine’s Day experience, allowing users to create a ‘Pika Boo’ AI video by answering a selection of questions.

Artists achieved a partial victory in a copyright battle against AI art generators, with a judge refusing requests form Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DeviantArt to dismiss a lawsuit.

Nvidia's Grace Hopper GH200 superchip performed on par with or surpassed high-end AMD and Intel CPUs in initial benchmarks, validating initial performance claims.

A reddit user discovered that both Gemini and Copilot believed the Super Bowl had already happened prior to the game, hallucinating stats and results.

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, utilized an AI video to declare victory from prison after his P.T.I. party scored a surprising win in the chaotic and contested election.

An AI deepfake video featuring deceased Indonesian dictator Suharto went viral ahead of the country’s elections, urging citizens to support his former party and raising concerns of AI voter manipulation.

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The future of healthcare might be sitting on your wrist.

Samsung's watches just became the first to earn FDA approval for sleep apnea detection — a huge leap forward for consumer wearable health tech. Let's explore…

In today’s tech rundown:

• New Samsung Watch feature tackles sleep apnea

• Meta dialing back political content on platforms

• 8 new products

• Altman seeking TRILLIONS for AI chip production

• Google One subscriptions top 100M

• Reddit defeats movie studios on piracy battle

Read time: 3 minutes

TODAY’S HEADLINES

SAMSUNG

⌚️ New Samsung Watch feature tackles sleep apnea

Image source: Samsung

The Rundown: Samsung's Galaxy Watch just became the first smartwatch to receive FDA authorization for sleep apnea detection, signaling a major expansion of the device’s health-tracking capabilities.

The details:

• Users over 22 will be able to track their sleep over two nights using the watch to be screened for signs of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

• This feature could increase detection rates for OSA, a condition that often goes undiagnosed but can contribute to other health problems.

• Samsung received FDA approval following a similar authorization from South Korea last year.

• The tool will be available on Galaxy Watches via the Samsung Health Monitor app in Q3 of this year, joining features like heart monitoring, and body composition analysis.

Why it matters: Smartwatches are transitioning from basic fitness trackers to serious medical devices — and the ability to self-monitor often overlooked conditions with a consumer device could be a game-changer for getting better diagnosis and care.

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• Find the most cost-effective pricing and swap in Mixtral in 3 lines of code

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CHARACTER AI

🇺🇸 Meta dialing back political content on platforms

Image source: Instagram

The Rundown: Meta just announced that both Instagram and Threads are actively reducing the amount of political content users will see in places like Explore and Reels, in an effort to distance itself from polarizing content surrounding the upcoming elections.

The details:

• Posts about laws, elections, and social topics from accounts users don't follow will be less likely to show up in recommended feeds.

• Users can opt back into the content appearing on their feed, and the changes won't impact posts from already-followed accounts.

• Facebook will also receive the new political content control at a later date.

Why it matters: With social media increasingly shaping political discourse in today’s age, Meta is trying to lessen its impact. Though given the massive amounts of disinformation and bots already on the platforms — the company’s influence on elections is already likely too big to curb meaningfully.

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SNIPPETS

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly seeking as much as $7 trillion (!) in funding to expand the world’s production of AI chips.

Google announced that its Google One subscription service surpassed 100M subscribers, coming on the heels of its announced AI Premium plan offering access to its top-tier Gemini Ultra model.

TikTok removed its hashtag view count feature, eliminating a key tool for analyzing the spread of content and potentially hindering transparency.

Reddit was victorious for a third time over movie studios, with courts ruling the platform does not have to reveal IP addresses of users discussing piracy due to First Amendment protections of user anonymity.

Notion announced the acquisition of Skiff, expanding its privacy-focused offerings with end-to-end encrypted file storage, documents, calendar events, and email.

Tesla's iPhone app was updated to support ultra-wideband (UWB), offering improved security and reliability when using iPhones as digital car keys.

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The rumors from Monday’s newsletter were true… Just a day late!

Google’s highly-anticipated Ultra model has finally arrived — alongside a full Gemini rebrand, new mobile apps, and more exciting updates. Your move, OpenAI…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Bard officially becomes Gemini as Ultra arrives

• OpenAI developing AI agents to automate work

• How to customize your Chrome theme with AI

• Huawei: AI needs physical body for AGI

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

✨ Bard officially becomes Gemini as Ultra arrives

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google just officially rebranded its AI chatbot Bard as Gemini and launched major upgrades, including a new mobile app and access to its highly anticipated Ultra model.

The details:

• Gemini Advanced gives access to Ultra 1.0, Google's "largest and most capable" AI model that competes with GPT-4 on performance benchmarks.

• The Advanced model is accessible as part of a $19.99/month Google One AI Premium subscription plan (the same as ChatGPT plus 👀).

• A Gemini mobile app rolls out on Android and iOS in the U.S., allowing enhanced on-device assistance via typing, voice, and images.

• The Android app supports some existing Google Assistant features, including making calls, controlling smart devices, and accessing info from other Google apps.

• Images generated with Gemini will now feature an invisible digital watermark using a tool called ‘SynthID’.

• Gemini (finally) made its debut in Canada, where it is now available in both English and French.

Why it matters: The transition from Bard to Gemini is finally complete — and Google just took the LLM race to the next level. With Ultra now pushing ChatGPT for top model status, all eyes turn to OpenAI for a counter-punch with a GPT-4.5 or 5 release.

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OPENAI

⚙️ OpenAI developing AI agents to automate work

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly building two types of AI agents — one for devices and another for web tasks that can autogenerate expense reports, transfer data between docs, book travel, and more.

The details:

• The device agent can take over the user's device to perform productivity tasks requiring text and clicks.

• The web agent will collect data online and book services autonomously without the need for third-party APIs.

• The agents vision is a step towards evolving AI into a more personal assistant with deep knowledge of individual users and workplaces.

Why it matters: AI agents were a trendy buzzword last year, but none of the iterations on the market truly seemed capable of carrying out ambitious tasks autonomously. High-functioning agents would blast us into a new era of AI possibilities — and OpenAI is once again leading the charge.

AI TRAINING

💻 How to customize your Chrome theme with AI

The Rundown: Google continues to incorporate AI into its core tools — and now you can even customize your Chrome theme using generative AI.

Step-by-step:

1. Enable Experimental AI in Chrome settings and relaunch Chrome.

2. Open a new tab in Chrome, select the side panel icon next to the G in the top right of your browser, and select Customize Chrome from the drop-down.

3. Select Change Theme and Create with AI option.

4. Choose your subject, style, mood, and color, and select Create.

5. Choose your favorite generated design and apply it to your theme.

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AI RESEARCH

🦿 AI’s next step — physical bodies

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The Rundown: Huawei researchers just published a new paper arguing that embodied AI agents that can continuously interact with and learn from the real world represent the next step towards artificial general intelligence.

The details:

• The researchers detail that static LLMs like ChatGPT lack bodies, so they can't actively sense or interact with the real world.

• Embodied AI will be able to see and hear environmental input, take physical actions, and learn from experiences.

• This interactivity mirrors how humans and animals gain understanding through trial-and-error, with researchers arguing a physical body is a necessary step in the quest for AGI development.

• A proposed framework details how to potentially embody AI, but hardware limitations still currently pose challenges.

Why it matters: Though the hardware is an obvious challenge, advances in robotics (even some in today’s newsletter!) indicate that giving AI a functional body to enable dynamic learning is not far off — and may be the missing ingredient for progress towards truly intelligent agents.

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QUICK HITS

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced the launch of the AI Safety Institute Consortium, with over 200 stakeholders (including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta) uniting to support the safe development of the tech.

Nvidia has reportedly tapped Intel Foundry Services to ramp up its GPU packaging, which could scale production to 300,000 H100 GPUs per month.

Brilliant Labs announced Frame, the first glasses with a built-in multimodal AI assistant capable of enhancing daily activities and interacting with digital and physical worlds.

Perplexity announces a partnership with Brilliant Labs’ Frame to integrate real-time answers into the AI-enhanced glasses.

1X Tech posted a new demo showing off the startup’s autonomous Android robots carrying out complex tasks without manual intervention.

Stable Audio released a new model called AudioSparx 1.0, capable of creating long-form music with more varied structure than competing models.

HyperWrite teased two new features called Agent Trainer and Agent Studio, allowing users to teach AI better to learn and repeat tasks.

Midjourney opened Alpha testing of their web platform for users with >1000 images, alongside a quiet announcement of a planned mobile app for the AI Image generator.

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Move over Taylor Swift — AI is coming for that Super Bowl spotlight.

Microsoft just dropped several upgrades to Copilot, along with a new commercial airing during the big game. Let’s explore…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Copilot heads to the Super Bowl

• YouTube bets big on AI for 2024

• How to learn a language with a personal GPT tutor

• Apple unveils AI model for image editing

• 8 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MICROSOFT

🏈 Copilot heads to the Super Bowl

Image source: Microsoft

The Rundown: Microsoft celebrated Copilot’s one-year anniversary with several major updates, including a new-look interface, in-line image editing, ‘Designer GPT’ integration, and more — alongside the release of the company’s upcoming Super Bowl ad.

The details:

• Copilot’s main interface gets a makeover with a sleeker, streamlined design and a refreshed carousel of suggested prompts.

• Users can now edit images inline during chats, like changing colors or blurring backgrounds.

• Copilot Pro subscribers gain the ability to resize and regenerate images, with a new direct 'Designer GPT integration also coming soon.

• Microsoft returns to the Super Bowl with its first ad in four years, with a commercial showing off Copilot (and not mentioning Bing once).

Why it matters: It might be time to pour one out for Bing Chat as Microsoft fully pivots to the Copilot brand. The company’s Super Bowl ad also signals a marketing shift — positioning Copilot as more AI assistant and less search tool to the masses.

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YOUTUBE

📺 YouTube bets big on AI for 2024

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The Rundown: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan listed generative AI as the platform’s top ‘big bet’ for 2024 in a new blog post outlining his vision for empowering creators and democratizing access to the tech.

The details:

• Mohan said the mission is using AI to help "everyone create", not replace creators.

• YouTube Shorts and its explosive 70B+ daily views will be a key target for testing new video AI capabilities.

• The blog also highlighted new experiments like Dream Screen, which allows users to make AI-generated backgrounds for shorts, and Dream Track for AI-generated music.

Why it matters: While AI still faces existential backlash from many creatives — platforms like YouTube working to empower creators can help change broader sentiment. And the more integrated AI becomes, the more the conversation shifts to a creative ‘tool’ instead of a creative ‘replacement’.

AI TRAINING

🗣️ How to learn a language with a personal GPT tutor 

The Rundown: You can use ChatGPT’s voice capabilities and custom GPTs to learn any language with your own personal tutor GPT.

Step-by-step:

1. Open ChatGPT on your phone and search for a language tutor GPT. There are many GPTs, but we recommend starting with the TereraAI Learn Language GPT.

2. Prompt the GPT with the language you would like to learn and your experience level.

3. The GPT will provide you with a list of options (e.g., vocabulary, phrases) for your lesson.

4. Plug in your headphones and speak to learn your selected language.

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AI RESEARCH

🍎 Apple unveils AI model for image editing

Image source: Apple and UC Santa Barbara

The Rundown: Apple and UC Santa Barbara researchers just released MGIE, an open-source AI system for editing images via natural language commands.

The details:

• MGIE leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interpret instructions and guide edits.

• The model can perform tasks like modifying colors or objects, optimizing brightness/contrast, and applying filters from simple text prompts.

• The model is trained end-to-end, so edits align with instructions while preserving unrelated areas.

Why it matters: Apple has been bringing the AI research heat lately — and this open-source model is particularly spicy. While text-to-image leaders have added inpainting and edit-region type features, MGIE’s instruction editing could eventually unlock Photoshop-type control with simple prompting.

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QUICK HITS

Stability AI launched the first update to its open-source Stable Video Diffusion model, enhancing motion and consistency in generations.

ChatGPT’s system prompt is now reportedly up to 1700 tokens, leading users to speculate if the lengthy directions are to blame for previous laziness concerns.

The Biden administration appointed Elizabeth Kelly, a White House economic policy adviser, to head the newly formed AI Safety Institute, focusing on developing safety standards for AI development.

Outtakes AI posted a demo of its app running locally on Apple Silicon, showcasing the ability to generate immersive worlds on the Vision Pro.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced plans to provide AI skills training to 2 million workers in India, emphasizing the country’s significant role in the AI landscape.

OpenAI introduced new endpoint-specific API keys for enhanced permissions control and security.

Elon Musk tweeted his support of the ancient scroll-deciphering Vesuvius Challenge, saying that The Musk Foundation will help fund the next stage of the contest.

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The X app just hit the top spot in the US App Store rankings.

With Tucker Carlson announcing his interview with Putin will go live on the app first — the anticipation is real. Let’s get into it…

In today’s tech rundown:

• X hits #1 app on US App Store

• Hong Kong firm scammed for HK$200M by deepfakes

• 8 new products

• Disney partners with Epic Games

• Apple is working on foldable iPhones

• YouTube Premium hits 8 million paying subscribers

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TODAY’S HEADLINES

X (FORMERLY TWITTER)

🚀 X hits #1 app on US App Store

Image source: Screenshot from Apple App Store

The Rundown: X (formerly Twitter) surged to the top spot on the U.S. App Store following Tucker Carlson's announcement of his interview with Vladimir Putin overnight.

The details:

• Carlson's announcement led to a spike in X app downloads, which began climbing the charts at around 7 PM EST.

• The interview is Putin's first with Western media since the Ukraine invasion.

• The interview has been confirmed to have already happened and will air on Elon Musk’s X app on Thursday.

Why it matters: With the interview being Putin’s first with a Western media figure since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it will likely be one of the most watched interviews of all time — and X is profiting from it, big time.

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DEEPFAKE SCAMS

🚨 Hong Kong firm scammed for HK$200M by deepfakes

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The Rundown: A Hong Kong firm lost HK$200 million to scammers using deepfake AI tech in a fake video meeting, where the company's CFO and others were impersonated.

The details:

• Deepfake tech was used to impersonate the CFO and others in a video call.

• The employee was deceived into making 15 transfers to fraudulent accounts.

• This scam, a first of its kind in Hong Kong, involved a significant sum of HK$200 million.

Why it matters: This highlights the growing threat of deepfakes in cybercrime, challenging the security of corporate transactions and emphasizing the need for advanced verification methods. As deepfake tech continues to improve, the risk will only increase.

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SNIPPETS

Disney has partnered with Epic Games, investing $1.5 billion to create an expansive metaverse featuring Disney's vast array of characters and stories.

The Biden administration is mandating that large U.S. cryptocurrency miners report their energy consumption amid concerns over the industry's potential strain on electricity grids and its environmental impact.

Apple is reportedly working on developing foldable iPhone and iPad models with horizontal folding designs similar to Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip.

Google's YouTube TV, priced at $73 per month, has reached 8 million subscribers, positioning it as a major player among cable TV providers.

Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that a comprehensive ESPN standalone streaming service will launch by fall 2025, offering live games, studio programming, and additional features such as ESPN Bet.

Microsoft has partnered with various journalism groups to promote AI integration within the industry, aiming to enhance reporting efficiency.

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AI may be the future — but it’s also helping us unlock the past.

A charred, 2,000-year-old ancient scroll was just deciphered using new AI algorithms, a triumph that could rewrite history as we know it. Let’s get into it.

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI helps reveal ancient Herculean texts

• Meta takes on AI image labeling

• How to generate HTML from screenshots using GPTs

• Research enables more agile, safe robot movement

• 8 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI & HISTORY

📜 AI helps reveal ancient texts in Vesuvius Challenge

Image source: Vesuivius Challenge

The Rundown: AI algorithms just unlocked text from a charred, 2,000-year-old scroll from Herculaneum's vast Roman library, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius' in 79 A.D.

The details:

• A $1M contest sponsored by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman challenged teams to extract Greek text from scans of damaged scrolls called the ‘Herculaneum papyri’.

• Hundreds of the scrolls were excavated in the 18th century but were previously undecipherable due to damage from the eruption.

• The winning software used AI to detect patterns missed by humans, revealing over 2,000 readable letters.

Why it matters: While AI is being hailed as the future — don’t underestimate its ability to uncover the past. The newfound ability to decipher texts and artifacts previously lost to time could completely rewrite our knowledge of history.

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META

♾️ Meta takes on AI image labeling

Image source: Meta

The Rundown: Meta just published a blog outlining new efforts to label AI-created images and media across its platforms while pushing for common standards around identifying synthetic content.

The details:

• Meta plans to add labels to photorealistic AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads over the next year using invisible watermarks and metadata.

• The company co-founded technical standards for AI markers and is currently building tools to detect the metadata at scale.

• Meta is adding user disclosure requirements for realistic images, videos, and audio posts that lack identifiers, with potential penalties for violations.

Why it matters: While AI deepfakes and deceptive media are clearly a massive problem — it feels like an issue that is going to be near impossible to regulate. Meta’s solutions are a step in the right direction, but workarounds will likely pop up that turn enforcement into a game of whack-a-mole.

AI TRAINING

💻 How to generate HTML from screenshots using GPTs

The Rundown: With ChatGPT’s vision capabilities and custom GPTs, you can now generate code for a website by simply providing a screenshot.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to the GPT store and search for the Screenshot To Code GPT.

2. Upload a screenshot of a website or application.

3. The GPT will generate the HTML code using Tailwind CSS to replicate the layout and style of the webpage in the screenshot you have provided.

4. You can now use this code to create your version of the website and even get ChatGPT to help you with the rest of the setup or any potential changes/configurations — just ask!

AI RESEARCH

💨 Research enables more agile, safe robot movement

Image source: Carnegie Melon University and ETH Zurich

The Rundown: Researchers at Carnegie Melon University and ETH Zurich just developed a framework allowing four-legged robots to navigate cluttered spaces at high speeds of nearly 7 MPH without collisions.

The details:

• An agile program enables the robot to move rapidly around obstacles, while another program stops it if dangerous situations arise.

• A special prediction function decides when to switch between fast and safe, helping better guide the robot’s motion.

• A perception system predicts where obstacles are from camera angles to allow the robot to react in real time.

• The complete system was tested on a Unitree Go1 robot moving through tight and crowded real-world spaces.

Why it matters: As robots are deployed into more complex situations, the ability to perform quick, agile, and safe movements will be absolutely necessary. This research could help unlock new models for building more dynamic robots to better navigate the chaos of the real-world.

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QUICK HITS

Stanford University and Stability AI introduced CheXagent, a new model for automated Chest X-Ray interpretation that outperforms existing models in clinical tasks.

Google’s Lookout App released a new feature called ‘Image Question and Answer’, using AI to provide audio responses describing an uploaded image to help blind and partially-sighted people better perceive the world.

OpenAI also released new AI image labeling efforts, with generations from ChatGPT and GPT APIs now including C2PA metadata — though the company notes the metadata can still be removed.

Tencent released a new version of its DynamiCrafter video generation model, showcasing enhanced capabilities and upgraded resolution.

Britain announced a $125M investment to educate regulators on AI and establish nine new AI research hubs, focusing on areas including healthcare, chemistry, mathematics, and responsible AI.

New research found that a ChatGPT-like system with minimal adjustments showed impressive capabilities in predicting chemical properties and reactions.

Life Corporation, a Texas firm already caught in past illegal call schemes, was found to be behind recent AI-generated robocalls of President Biden telling New Hampshire primary voters to skip the election.

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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.

NASA just discovered a new ‘super-Earth‘ that has the potential to sustain human life.

Sitting at only 137 lightyears away, the new finding opens up further possibilities for human civilization to expand beyond Earth. Let’s get into it.

In today’s tech rundown:

• NASA discovers a new ‘super-Earth’

• Woman has a robotic limb merged with bone

• 10 new products

• Bluesky opens public sign-ups

• Apple Vision Pro heads to China

• Mozilla opens up a new subscription-based service

Read time: 3 minutes

TODAY’S HEADLINES

SUPER EARTH

🌍 NASA discovers a new ‘super-Earth’

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The Rundown: Scientists have discovered a super-Earth called TOI-715 b, in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, sparking excitement about potential life-supporting conditions 137 light-years away.

The details::

• TOI-715 b is 1.5 times wider than Earth.

• It resides in the star's "conservative" habitable zone, with a second Earth-sized planet also possibly existing in the same zone.

• Advanced instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope could probe its atmosphere.

Why it matters: TOI-715 b's discovery within a habitable zone may advance our search for extraterrestrial life, as it's a prime candidate for detailed atmospheric study, potentially revealing conditions for life.

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BIONIC WOMAN

🦾 Woman has a robotic limb merged with bone

Image source: Anna-Lena Lundqvist / Ortiz-Cata SWNS

The Rundown: Karin, dubbed "the real bionic woman," is the first to receive a robotic limb that integrates with her nervous and skeletal systems, offering new hope for amputees

The details:

• Karin lost her right hand in a farming accident over 20 years ago.

• The bionic limb allows her to perform 80% of tasks she could do with both hands.

• The limb, developed by a team from Sweden, Australia, and Italy, uses osseointegration and AI.

Why it matters: This breakthrough represents a significant advancement in prosthetic technology, potentially transforming the quality of life for amputees worldwide by offering more natural and intuitive control over artificial limbs.

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SNIPPETS

Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, is now open for public sign-ups and is preparing to let developers host their services on its AT Protocol.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a warning against using Apple Vision Pro headsets while driving due to the distraction they pose.

YouTube is experimenting with color-filtered video recommendations for a tailored visual browsing experience.

Dell is revising its remote work policy by requiring hybrid employees to spend more time in the office.

Spotify's Q4 2023 financial report reflects growth in subscribers and monthly users despite layoffs and a loss.

Apple's Vision Pro headset is slated for release in China by May, with ongoing trademark negotiations with Huawei for the name.

Mozilla introduces a new subscription service that proactively removes users' leaked personal information from numerous data broker websites.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

In today’s surprising twist of events, Microsoft is teaming up with news outlets to bring AI-assisted stories, amid a lawsuit with the NYT.

The new partnerships are set to integrate AI into the news research process — though journalists will still write the actual articles. Let’s get into it.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Microsoft partners with news orgs for AI research

• Roblox bridges language barriers with AI chat translator

• How to create coloring book images with AI

• Apple boosts AI speech recognition with new method

• 8 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MICROSOFT

📰 Microsoft partners with news orgs for AI research

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Microsoft just announced a series of new partnerships with media organizations to provide AI tools and guidance on using generative models for news gathering and operations.

The details:

• Semafor’s 'Signals’ feed will be sponsored by Microsoft and leverage AI to research and curate insights, with the stories still written entirely by journalists.

• Semafor’s writers will also use AI to sift through info across global news sources and various languages to enhance research capabilities.

• Other Microsoft partnerships include CUNY’s journalism school, The Online News Association, The GroundTruth Project, and Nota.

• The announcement comes on the heels of the NYT’s lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company trained ChatGPT on its news articles.

Why it matters: AI still produces occasional hallucinations in text (AKA it makes things up) — which is why we, ironically as an AI newsletter, still write every newsletter by hand. Media organizations are making the right move here by leveraging AI to streamline work across everything other than the writing.

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ROBLOX

💬 Roblox bridges language barriers with AI chat translator

Image source: Roblox

The Rundown: Roblox just unveiled a real-time AI chat translator that enables players speaking different languages to seamlessly communicate in-game, supporting 16 languages and achieving near-instantaneous translation.

The details:

• The system translates text between any combination of supported languages, bridging communication barriers between its diverse 70M daily active users.

• Roblox trained an LLM on in-game terminology and public and internal datasets, helping it recognize internet slang and other platform-specific language.

• The company also plans to expand translations across the platform, including text on images, 3D models, and voice chat.

Why it matters: We’ve posted often about AI’s ability to break down language barriers, and Roblox just provided a perfect real-world implementation. Pretty soon, every platform will likely have an AI system of its own — ending communication barriers as we know them.

AI TRAINING

🖍️ How to create coloring book images with AI 

Image source: Chase Lean (@chaseleantj on X)

The Rundown: With a good prompt, you can generate a coloring book version of any images for free using Microsoft Image Creator.

Thank you to Chase Lean for sharing this creative idea and prompt with us.

Step-by-step:

1. Head to Microsoft Image Creator or Midjourney.

2. Describe the image you want to generate using the following prompt:

   • “On the left, a black and white simple children's coloring book illustration featuring a [insert description of image] with no shading, with a white background. On the right, the same illustration with color. --ar 2:1 --style raw --sref [see image below] --stylize 250 --v 6

3. After a few minutes you will receive a set of images you can choose from.

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AI RESEARCH

🗣️ Apple boosts AI speech recognition with new method

Image source: Apple

The Rundown: Apple researchers just introduced a new technique called "acoustic model fusion" that integrates an additional model into speech recognition systems, helping better recognize unfamiliar words and names.

The details:

• End-to-end models (which complete speech-to-text processes in a single step) can often struggle with rare words not seen much during training.

• The researchers found that fusing a secondary acoustic model to the end-to-end model during recognition provided useful additional pronunciation and audio data.

• For some test sets, the approach cut word error rates by over 14%, with higher gains for less common words.

Why it matters: Apple providing new research on enhancing speech recognition is notable given Siri’s… comically lackluster capabilities in the area. But given the paper’s focus (and other rumored Apple AI developments), everyone’s least favorite voice assistant may get a serious upgrade soon.

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QUICK HITS

Bumble launched a new AI-powered tool called Deception Detector, which automatically identifies and blocks 95% of spam and fake profiles on its dating platform.

Sam Altman posted that GPT-4’s performance should now be improved, saying the model had ‘a slow start on its new year’s resolutions’ to be less lazy.

Bayreuth University scientists are using AI to analyze galaxy structures and behaviors, a new method that efficiently tests astrophysical theories using Einstein’s principles of relativity.

Alibaba researchers released Qwen1.5, open-sourcing six model sizes with performance surpassing GPT 3.5 and Mistral-Medium, and competitive with GPT-4 on certain benchmarks.

A Hong Kong company lost $25.6M after scammers created a meeting with deepfake audio and video for multiple recreated coworkers, convincing a finance employee to transfer funds.

Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly had to slow its phone production despite leading the country in smartphone sales, prioritizing AI chips amid surging global demand.

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