This Week’s News

  1. United Healthcare company Optum exposed an internal AI chatbot to the internet. [Link]

  2. The BBC issues a complaint to Apple after its AI rewrote a BBC headline to say that the shooter of the United Healthcare CEO shot himself rather than being murdered. [Link]

  3. OpenAI and Elon Musk in a legal battle over OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company. [Link]

  4. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now watch and interact with users in real time. [Link]

  5. Anthropic releases its Claude-3.5 Haiku model to users. [Link]

  6. Harvard University and Google release one million books into the public domain for AI training purposes. [Link]

  7. A chatbot has told a child that killing his parents is a ‘reasonable response’ to discipline. [Link]

  8. Microsoft has announced its new model Phi 4 which performs better with mathematical and reasoning problems. [Link]

  9. Google reveals DeepSearch, a new research tool that can scour the web and write a report for you. [Link]

  10. OpenAI blames a massive outage on December 11th on its new telemetry tool. [Link]

  11. Frontier AI models can now successfully self-replicate. [Link]

  12. OpenAI releases its text to video generation tool Sora to the general public. [Link]

  13. Science Corporation, a Japanese tech company, has released its AI powered washing machine. [Link]

  14. Generate limitless 3D worlds from text with Google’s Genie-2. [Link]

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