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AI News - August 27, 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. Man in Florida is arrested for creating illegal content generated with AI. [Link]

  2. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump denies responsibility for sharing AI generated deep fakes of Taylor Swift endorsing him. [Link]

  3. North Korea tests new suicide drones. President Kim Jong Un urges incorporation of AI into them. [Link]

  4. Inexpensive AI voice bots are proliferating in India. [Link]

  5. Perplexity AI, the company behind its AI assisted search engine, plans to start featuring ads in the fourth quarter of this year. [Link]

  6. Chinese tech giant Baidu blocks Google and Bing from scraping web sites from its web sites. [Link]

  7. Companies building AI driven coding assistants pull in nearly one billion USD in funding. [Link] [Link]

  8. Boomy, a company that uses generative AI to help artists create music, reaches distribution deal with Warner Brothers. [Link]

  9. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims that generative AI has saved the company 260 million USD and 4500 man years of development time. [Link]

  10. Cruise Robotaxis are coming to Uber’s App next year. [Link]

  11. Google Deepmind employees sign an open letter urging the company to end military contracts. [Link]

  12. OpenAI comes out in opposition to a new California proposed AI regulatory bill. [Link]

  13. The second Neuralink brain implant patient is already playing video games with his mind. [Link]

  14. Meta releases its new web crawler bot to obtain data to train its Large Language models. [Link]

  15. ElevenLabs releases its text to speech application Reader globally. [Link]

  16. Chinese scientists develop new AI models that simulate neurons and require lower energy consumption. [Link]

  17. Voters in Cheyenne, Wyoming will choose whether or not to allow an AI Bot to help run the city. [Link]

  18. Waymo, the autonomous robot taxi company, is now delivering 100,000 rides per week. Still hasn’t fixed its honking problem. [Link]

  19. US Power generators boosted supply in response to rising demand due to AI. [Link]