AI News - September 23, 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. OpenAI is expected to raise 6.5 Billion USD in its latest funding round. [Link]

2. Constellation Energy will reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in order to provide Microsoft with the energy needed to power its AI data centers. [Link]

3. OpenAI threatens to ban users that try to probe GPT-4o1’s reasoning process. [Link]

4. Lionsgate film studio partners with Runway AI in an unprecedented creative deal. [Link]

5. Google rolls out new AI video creation tools for Youtube. [Link]

6. Researchers in Hong Kong find that memory in AI works much like human memory. [Link]

7. Chipotle is testing food processing robots at its restaurants. [Link]

8. GPT-4o1 measures an IQ of 120. [Link]

9. LLMs have an environmental cost. LLMs use three bottles of water per hundred words of output. [Link]

10. Starling Bank, based in the United Kingdom, issues a warning to users about AI voice cloning scams. [Link]

11. Google AI researchers release a new LLM that is trained to converse with Whales. [Link]

12. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, steps down from his role in OpenAI’s safety committee. [Link]

13. Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology, says management shouldn’t ‘BS’ employees about the impact of AI on their workforce. [Link]

14. Blackrock and Microsoft partner on a thirty billion dollar fund to develop and power AI data centers. [Link]