AI News - June 16, 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. Microsoft delays its AI tool Recall over privacy concerns. [Link]

  2. Amazon unveils two new AI professional certifications for its AWS cloud environment. [Link]

  3. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed an AI agent structure that attempts to find vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure. [Link]

  4. LinkedIn offers a new range of AI tools including an AI written cover letter. [Link]

  5. Luma unveils Dream Machine, another text to video tool to rival Sora and others in this space. [Link]

  6. Apple unveils its new AI platform Apple Intelligence, at the WWDC 2024 conference. [Link]

  7. Swedish company FinalSpark claims to have built a “living computer” using human brain cells as part of their architecture. [Link]

  8. “Ai Steve” An AI agent is running for election as a Minister of Parliament in the UK. [Link]

  9. In an ironic twist, a photographer’s image was disqualified from an AI photographic contest because it was human generated. [Link]

  10. Meta pauses plan to use EU public and non-public data to train its AI models after pushback from privacy advocates. [Link]

  11. Pope Francis warns about the threat of AI to human dignity in a sermon at the G7 conference. [Link]

  12. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declares that he used AI to ‘beautifully rewrite a speech’. [Link]

  13. Google Deepmind and Harvard University create a ‘virtual rodent’ with an AI brain. [Link]

  14. AI uncodes the language of Sperm Whales revealing complex communication behaviors. [Link]

  15. University of South Florida researchers develop an AI powered smart mosquito trap to help prevent the spread of malaria. [Link]