AI News - February 18, 2024

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

  1. NVidia unveils a first look at EOS, a supercomputer optimized for generative AI. [Link]

  2. Google is open sourcing Magicka, its AI-powered file identification tool. [Link]

  3. Google quickly updates Gemini to Version 1.5, enhancing its capabilities. [Link]

  4. Lenovo is poised to release a Microsoft Windows OS competitor powered by AI. [Link]

  5. OpenAI introduces SORA, its new text to video model that allows users to create realistic videos from text prompts. [Link]

  6. An Austin, TX resident develops an AI-powered interactive map of homeless camps. [Link]

  7. Microsoft Corp. announces a $3.2 billion investment in AI and Cloud technologies in Germany. [Link]

  8. OpenAI and Microsoft team up to disrupt malicious threat actors using AI. [Link]

  9. OpenAI adds a new feature to ChatGPT called Memory that allows it to remember previous conversations. [Link]

  10. Major tech corporations team up to crack down on misleading voter information. [Link]

  11. Canadian film and TV producers ask government for protection against AI-generated content. [Link]

  12. Buckingham Palace consults lawyers after books about King Charles’ cancer, written with AI, are featured on Amazon. [Link]

  13. Amazon reports that its new LLM BASE-TTS, trained on 980 million parameters, shows signs of “emergent abilities”. [Link]