AI News - May 19, 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. OpenAI and Reddit reach deal to allow OpenAI to train its chatbots on Reddit data. [Link]

2. AI used to trick employees at architectural design firm Arup out of 25 million USD. [Link]

3. Regulators in the United Kingdom decline to investigate Microsoft’s partnership with French AI company Mistral. [Link]

4. Researchers at MIT use machine learning to remotely map crop fields. [Link]

5. OpenAI released GPT-4o, its fastest and most powerful chatbot, which is also free to use. [Link]

6. Stability AI, the maker of stable diffusion, runs out of cash and is in discussions to sell itself off. [Link]

7. Microsoft’s expansion of data centers to support its AI programs causes a 30 percent rise in carbon emissions. [Link]

8. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, is leaving OpenAI after failing to oust Sam Altman as CEO. [Link]

9. Google announces plans to incorporate AI into the Android ecosystem. [Link]

10. Apple announces new eye-tracking software powered by AI to its iOS operating system for Apple phones. [Link]

11. Google demos Project Astra, a competitor to GPT-4o, at Google I/O. [Link]

12. U.S Senate unveils its AI Roadmap to shape government policy towards AI. [Link]

13. NASA appoints its first Chief AI officer, highlighting the technology’s rising importance. [Link]

14. Recursion, a leading clinical stage biotechnology company, unveils its new AI supercomputer, Biohive-2, in conjunction with partner NVidia. [Link]

15. Anthropic makes its chatbot, Claude, available across Europe. [Link]

16. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), releases two versions of Falcon, its open source LLM. [Link]