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📈 AI search is gaining momentum
🗣️ ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing
🎤 Meta and UMG struck an agreement to 'protect' artists from AI
🏆 CrowdStrike accepts 'most epic fail' award after outage
🚨 TikTok users are being sent fake news alerts
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
📈 AI search is gaining momentumLINK
Perplexity's AI search engine experienced substantial growth, answering 250 million queries last month, signaling a rising demand for AI-driven search technologies. In contrast, 500 million queries were processed throughout 2023, Shevelenko told the Financial Times Despite this growth, Perplexity remains significantly behind Google, which dominates the market with over 90 percent share and processes around 8.5 billion queries daily. The rise of AI in search, exemplified by Perplexity and other players, suggests a potential shift in user behavior and challenges to the traditional search engine business models.
🗣️ ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testingLINK
During testing, ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode accidentally mimicked users' voices without their consent, as highlighted in OpenAI's new GPT-4o system card released on Thursday.
OpenAI has implemented safeguards to prevent unauthorized voice imitation, although rare episodes during testing showcased the model's ability to unintentionally generate user-like voices.
The GPT-4o AI model can synthesize almost any sound, and OpenAI directs this capability by using authorized voice samples and employing an output classifier to ensure only selected voices are generated.
🎤 Meta and UMG struck an agreement to 'protect' artists from AILINK
Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) updated their licensing agreements to extend UMG’s content use across more Meta platforms, now including Threads and WhatsApp alongside Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Meta Horizon.
This multiyear agreement aims to explore new collaboration opportunities on WhatsApp and other Meta platforms, addressing issues like unauthorized AI-generated content that could impact artists and songwriters.
Meta’s collaboration with UMG dates back to 2017, allowing users to use UMG music in content and addressing copyright issues, a challenge shared by TikTok in its recent dealings with UMG.
🏆 CrowdStrike accepts 'most epic fail' award after outageLINK
CrowdStrike's president, Michael Sentonas, accepted the 'Most Epic Fail' award at the Pwnie Awards after a recent software update caused a global IT outage.
The award ceremony occurred at Def Con, following the Black Hat conference where CrowdStrike had a significant presence and expressed gratitude to the community.
Sentonas publicly acknowledged the company's mistake, stating the importance of accountability, and planned to display the trophy at headquarters as a reminder to prevent future errors.
🚨 TikTok users are being sent fake news alertsLINK
TikTok is sending push notifications that contain incorrect information and outdated alerts, causing misinformation among users.
One of the misleading alerts included a weeks-old tsunami warning, leading to confusion and potential panic for those receiving the notification.
This issue highlights concerns about the reliability of TikTok's notification system and its impact on spreading false news.
Other news you might like
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots.LINK
Linux Foundation’s latest initiative aims to promote ‘irrevocable’ open-source AI models.LINK
Here's why the creator of Gmail thinks Google fell behind in the AI arms race.LINK
Apple Intelligence will reportedly be free until at least 2027.LINK
Apple's budget-friendly Vision Pro headset to debut in 2025.LINK
Elon Musk's X was hit with 9 complaints after scraping user data to train AI.LINK
Gaming giant Valve hit with another antitrust lawsuit alleging anticompetitive practices.LINK
Latest research and tools
Blitz: a lightweight, modular web renderer that replaces the traditional JavaScript engine with a native Rust API, enabling Rust-based reactivity and state management without the bloat of standard browser features.LINK
Adbfs-rootless: enables Linux users to mount their Android phones as a filesystem using adb, without requiring root access on the phone.LINK
Tree Attention: Topology-Aware Decoding for Long-Context: the paper introduces a decoding technique that considers the structure of data to better handle tasks involving long-context information.LINK
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