AI News - November 18, 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. The European Union has released draft rules to implement its AI act. [Link]

2. Architecture AI startup Gendo secures 4.3 million UKP. [Link]

3. ESPN is testing a new AI Avatar called ‘FACTS’. [Link]

4. Mobile Telecom O2 creates an ‘AI Granny’ to waste telephone scammers’ time. [Link]

5. New social media platform, a rival to X/Twitter, says that it will not train its AI on users’ posts. [Link]

6. US Companies like Apple and Google are slowing deployment of AI in the EU due to regulatory uncertainties. [Link]

7. Google adds an AI image generator for clip art for documents. [Link]

8. In a blind test, readers prefer AI generated poetry to human generated. [Link]

9. OpenAI releases ChatGPT Desktop app upgrade, introduces partial MacOS support. [Link]

10. Anthropic is partnering with the US Department of Energy to prevent AI from leaking nuclear secrets. [Link]

11. Google releases its latest model of Gemini. [Link]

12. Google Deepmind open sources AlphaFold 3, its AI model for protein folding discoveries. [Link]

13. Research organization Epoch AI releases a new benchmark FrontierMath to test LLMs math solving skills. [Link]

14. John Hopkins medical school trains a surgical robot by showing it videos of surgeries. [Link]

15. AI data centers are projected to run out of power by 2027. [Link]