AI News - October 07, 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. Meta unveils a pre-release look at Movie Gen, its answer to OpenAI’s Sora. Link

2. OpenAI closes its latest round of VC funding, raising 6.6 billion USD. Link

3. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVidia, talks of an ‘insane demand’ for their next generation AI chip Blackwell. Link

4. The EU is at risk of falling behind in AI technology due to overregulation. Link

5. Microsoft commits to over 100 billion USD in financial leases for data centers. Link

6. Venerable Microsoft application Paint gets an AI overhaul. Link

7. OpenAI releases their real time API for GPT. Link

8. Microsoft adds voice and vision inputs to Copilot. Link

9. California governor Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047. Link

10. Alibaba and NVidia collaborate on autonomous driving solutions. Link

11. Social workers in the UK start using AI tools to increase productivity. Link

12. Robot hand can detach itself and crawl to nearby objects. Link

13. General Electric spinoff Vernova stock soars as demand for electricity generation is set to drastically increase. Link

14. Apple develops and open sources Depth Pro, a new AI model that can quickly make three dimensional depth maps from a two dimensional image in under a second. Link