AI News - December 02, 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. A small-scale study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds that LLMs consistently hallucinate when asked to cite sources. [Link]

2. A study shows that women are less likely to use AI than men. [Link]

3. The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to break up Google due to monopoly concerns. [Link]

4. The Coca Cola corporation faces backlash from its AI generated Christmas commercial. [Link]

5. Over 70 percent of ‘Gen Z’ workers use AI, Salesforce study finds. [Link]

6. University of Tokyo affiliate brings back Panasonic’s late founder as an AI model. [Link]

7. Tesla unveils a new, improved hand with greater range of motion for its Optimus robot. [Link]

8. Meta corporation plans to build a globally spanning underwater fiber optic cable to support its AI infrastructure at a cost of ten billion USD. [Link]

9. Economists maintain that AI can reduce health care inefficiencies, thus reducing the national debt. [Link]

10. The BBC reports that AI cloned voices can defeat bank security checks. [Link]

11. OpenAI has suspended all access to its text to video model Sora after unauthorized leaks. [Link]

12. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania claim a 100 percent success rate in jailbreaking robots to allow them to run over pedestrians. [Link]

13. President-elect Trump is looking to hire an ‘AI Czar’ for his administration. [Link]

14. Zoom, the makers of a popular video conferencing platform, is rebranding itself as an ‘AI company’. [Link]

15. Perplexity, the company behind its AI-based search engine, is considering expanding into hardware. [Link]