AI News - June 30, 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 Head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman sparks controversy by declaring that anything on the internet is free to use. [Link]

2. Synthesia Corp. introduces Synthesia 2.0, a generative AI tool to create videos from text for businesses. [Link]

3. OpenAI releases ‘CriticGPT’, a large language model designed to detect errors in software code generated by GPT-4. [Link]

4. Major record labels are suing AI music generators, alleging copyright infringement. [Link]

5. Google partners with Thomson and Reuters to allow access to news content to train their AI models. [Link]

6. Google releases Gemma 2, its latest open source language model. [Link]

7. Alibaba releases its latest open source LLM, Qwen-2. [Link]

8. Anthropic releases its collaborative tools for Claude Professional and Team users. [Link]

9. Google uses AI to add 110 new languages to Google Translate. [Link]

10. Meta releases their LLM compiler, a suite of tools to optimize compiler and code development. [Link]

11. ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot repeat false claim about the Biden-Trump debate. [Link]

12. NBC to clone broadcaster Al Michaels’ voice for the 2024 Olympic games in order to broadcast recaps. [Link]

13. Anthropic expands U.S. government access to Claude through a partnership with AWS. [Link]

14. New AI tool “Flim” can identify what movie you are thinking of when you visualize a scene from it. [Link]

15. Bill Gates says that AI will help rather than hinder countries and organizations to hit climate change targets. [Link]

16. Google is integrating its Gemini LLM into Gmail. [Link]

17. Researchers at Tokyo University replicate a human face for robots made with living skin tissue. [Link]