AI News - November 03, 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. Perplexity.ai has launched an election tracker hub to monitor the upcoming U.S. Elections. [Link]

2. Nvidia Corporation joins the Dow Industrial Average, replacing Intel. [Link]

3. Anthropic has rolled out visual analysis of PDF documents to its Claude Sonnet 3.5 model. [Link]

4. Scientists have developed a Neural Network model that can perform three-dimensional reconstructions of a two-dimensional image. [Link]

5. Experts at the University of Southampton test a new drone containing a ‘nervous system’. [Link]

6. Google’s new AI project, dubbed ‘Big Sleep’, is able to find bugs in production software. [Link]

7. Amazon has delayed the rollout of its new Alexa Assistant due to problems integrating AI models as well as management problems. [Link]

8. Gelsight and Meta have teamed up to release a tactile sensor for robots. [Link]

9. OpenAI has added a new search feature to ChatGPT. [Link]

10. Anthropic has released its Claude desktop application. [Link]

11. Google will integrate generative AI into its Maps product. [Link]

12. Waymo investigates training its robotaxis with Google’s Gemini LLM. [Link]

13. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman endorses Vice President Harris for President citing concerns about AI. [Link]

14. Walt Disney Corporation is forming a new business unit to coordinate its integration of AI to its products. [Link]

15. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says that GPT-5 will not ship this year, citing difficulties in training the model. [Link]