AI News - September 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. Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Tesla’s Elon Musk beg Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, for more AI chips for their supercomputing clusters. [Link]

2. AI is failing to live up to hype around pharmaceutical drug discovery. [Link]

3. OpenAI previews its latest model, GPT-4o1, a first of its kind ‘reasoning’ LLM. [Link]

4. The White House is launching a new task force on AI datacenter infrastructure. [Link]

5. Speaking to an AI Chatbot seems to reduce conspiracy theory beliefs in users. [Link]

6. Meta scrapes all information from its Australian users to train their AI models. [Link]

7. New paper reveals that LLMs can generate novel research ideas. [Link]

8. Apple Computer’s iPhone 16 arrives with AI augmentation. [Link]

9. The Republic of Ireland opens a GDPR investigation into Google over AI practices. [Link]

10. JP Morgan Chase, the international investment bank, is rolling out its AI assistant to 140 thousand employees. [Link]

11. Actor James Earl Jones, who died this week, signed his voice rights over to allow AI to replicate it. [Link]

12. The government of New Zealand is launching their new chatbot, Gov-GPT, modeled on ChatGPT that is designed to help their citizens interact with government services. [Link]

13. Weave Robotics introduces Isaac, its first generation home assistant robot. [Link]