AI News - July 7, 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. Brazil has blocked Meta from using social media to train its AI models. [Link]

2. Google Cloud expands the capabilities of its Vertex AI platform. [Link]

3. Apple’s Vision Pro VR headsets get new AI capabilities. [Link]

4. Meta’s 3D Gen text-to-3D Image platform generates images in seconds. [Link]

5. Perplexity AI upgrades its search engine to make it better able to search for mathematics and research. [Link]

6. Eleven Labs launches its AI voice isolator to clean up background noise from audio. [Link]

7. NVidia earns twelve billion USD selling AI chips to China despite US restrictions. [Link]

8. French startup Kyutai unveils Moshi, a large language model that enables conversational AI. [Link]

9. Robotic government worker ‘suicide’ startles South Korea. [Link]

10. The Australian government has backed numerous university AI health projects with twenty million AUSD. [Link]

11. China leads the world in Generative AI patents. [Link]

12. OpenAI’s ChatGPT application for Macs was storing conversations in plain text, spurring privacy and security fears. [Link]

13. Japan employs a twelve meter tall robot to maintain its railway lines. [Link]

14. The city of Detroit pays a man 300,000 USD after facial recognition AI falsely points to him as a shoplifting suspect. [Link] [Link]

15. Apple gets an observer seat on OpenAI’s board of directors. [Link]