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AI News - June 02, 2024

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💌 Welcome to Our AI Weekly Roundup! 💌

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. Dr. Geoff Hinton, one of the pre-eminent researchers in AI, says that an expert consensus was reached that AI will soon exceed human intelligence. [Link]

  2. Google Research introduces AGREE, a framework that allows LLM’s to provide accurate citations for their output. [Link]

  3. OpenAI establishes a new safety and security committee to make recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for their LLM’s. [Link]

  4. Microsoft introduces new AI tool Recall for Windows 11 to track all of your actions on your PC. [Link]

  5. New AI powered headphones developed by University of Washington researchers allow users to zero in on one voice in a crowd. [Link]

  6. Google’s new AI overview tool for search gives wrong answers, such as endorsing ‘eating rocks’ and ‘putting glue on pizza’. [Link]

  7. New details about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s firing are revealed. [Link]

  8. OpenAI continues to strike content deals, this time with Vox Media and The Atlantic Magazine. [Link]

  9. Mistral, the French AI company backed by Microsoft, releases Codestral, its first generative LLM for writing software. [Link]

  10. Google AI now available as a built-in feature for Chromebook Plus notebooks. [Link]

  11. Tech giants Microsoft, Google, Intel, and others, form a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) promoter group, to guide the development of next-generation AI hardware components. [Link]

  12. ElevenLabs creates a new AI tool to create sound effects and instrumental music from text prompts. [Link]

  13. Fable Studio creates Showrunner, an AI app to allow users to create their own TV shows. [Link]

  14. Cartesia announces Sonic, a low latency model for generating lifelike speech. [Link]

  15. AI4Finance launches FinRobot, an open source platform for creating agents for the financial community. [Link]

  16. OpenSora, an open source competitor to OpenAI’s Sora, launches. [Link]

  17. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is putting AI to practical use to help prevent burnout among employees. [Link]