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🫠 Google's AI panic looks like Google+ fiasco
🎤 OpenAI pauses Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT
⚖️ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wins bid to appeal against US extradition
💸 Snapchat focuses on AI with $1.5 billion yearly investment
🍏 Apple and OpenAI plan major announcement at WWDC
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🫠 Google's AI panic looks like Google+ fiascoLINK
Scott Jenson, a former Google employee, criticizes the company's AI projects as poorly motivated and driven by panic, comparing the situation to the Google+ fiasco.
According to Jenson, Google aims to create a Jarvis-like assistant to keep users within its ecosystem, driven by fear that competitors might get there first, similar to Apple’s strategy with Siri and OpenAI.
Many of Google's AI projects revealed at I/O 2024 are still experimental or limited in availability, with uncertain value, and features like "AI Overviews" in Google Search have received criticism for potential copyright issues and misinformation.
🎤 OpenAI pauses Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPTLINK
OpenAI is pulling the ChatGPT voice known as Sky, which sounds similar to Scarlett Johansson, due to concerns about mimicking celebrities' voices.
The company asserts that Sky's voice is the natural voice of a different professional actress and not an intentional imitation of Johansson.
The decision to pause Sky's use follows recent enhancements to ChatGPT's voice mode, part of the new GPT-4o model, which aims to make the assistant more expressive and capable of reading facial expressions and translating spoken language in real-time.
⚖️ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wins bid to appeal against US extraditionLINK
London's High Court ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US.
Assange faces 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse in the US, with a potential sentence of up to 175 years in prison if convicted.
US submissions regarding Assange's treatment and the applicability of First Amendment protections were deemed insufficient by the court, allowing the appeal process to proceed.
💸 Snapchat focuses on AI with $1.5 billion yearly investmentLINK
Snap's CEO, Evan Spiegel, announced a major investment of $1.5 billion annually in AI and machine learning to improve Snapchat's features and competitiveness.
After successfully revamping Snapchat's advertising model, the company will now focus on collaborating with tech giants like Amazon and Google for cloud partnerships to enhance AI product innovations.
With growing ad revenue and new successful ad campaigns, Snapchat plans to expand content offerings and augmented reality experiences, enhancing user engagement and competing with platforms like TikTok.
🍏 Apple and OpenAI plan major announcement at WWDCLINK
Apple and OpenAI are planning a major joint announcement at WWDC, focusing on integrating OpenAI's technology into iOS 18, according to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg.
Apple aims to improve its AI capabilities with this integration, including enhancements to Siri and features like automatic summaries of notifications and transcription of voice memos.
While Apple acknowledges it is behind in AI and lacks a chatbot like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, the company believes the collaboration with OpenAI is a sufficient, though temporary, solution.
Other news you might like
Apple COO reportedly attends secret meetings with TSMC to reserve first batch of 2-nanometer production.LINK
Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs at Build developer conference.LINK
First Black astronaut candidate finally reaches space at age 90.LINK
Meta and LG’s headset partnership is on the rocks.LINK
Computer scientist ‘lied extensively’ in Bitcoin founder claim, judge rules.LINK
FDA approves Neuralink's brain chip implant in second patient.LINK
Latest research and tools
Llama3: a machine learning model that requires manual implementation of tensor and matrix multiplication and employs tensors directly loaded from Meta's provided model file, utilizing TikToken for tokenization and focusing on individual attention head processing within its architecture.LINK
C Style: a guide emphasizing the importance of writing correct, readable, simple, and maintainable C code, advocating for simplicity over speed and modern practices over backward compatibility.LINK
ffmpeg-english: translates descriptive English commands into FFmpeg syntax for video and image processing tasks.LINK
Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review: this paper summarizes various approaches and methodologies for teaching algorithm design identified in academic literature.LINK
Grothendieck’s use of equality: the paper discusses the innovative approach to the concept of equality in mathematics developed by Alexander Grothendieck.LINK
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