AI News - December 08, 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 owner of the Los Angeles Times plans to introduce an AI ‘bias meter’ to all articles, sparking outrage amongst staff. [Link]

2. Meta releases Llama-3.3 70B model, claiming it outperforms the competition on benchmarks. [Link]

3. OpenAI introduces GPT Pro for 200 USD per month, offering subscribers unlimited use of their latest GPT 4o model. [Link]

4. Microsoft introduces ‘Vision’ for Copilot, allowing Copilot to ‘see’ pages in the Edge Browser. [Link]

5. Uber is rolling out robotic taxis in Abu Dhabi. [Link]

6. Incoming President Donald Trump names David Sacks as his AI and Cryptocurrency ‘czar’. [Link]

7. AWS brings prompt routing and caching to its AI platform Bedrock. [Link]

8. Starting on December 5th, OpenAI has declared ‘12 days of Shipmas’ with new product announcements every day for 12 days. [Link]

9. Google has launched Veo, their text to video language model, in private preview. [Link]

10. Amazon has announced Nova, a set of frontier LLMs. [Link]

11. Petbarn, in collaboration with Microsoft, has released ‘PetAI’, an AI-powered application for Australian pet owners. [Link]

12. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit to prevent OpenAI from converting to a for-profit enterprise. [Link]

13. Pongbot introduces two AI-powered robotic tennis players. [Link]

14. British PM Keir Starmer opens Google’s first AI Campus in the UK for young students. [Link]

15. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Board places Google under scrutiny. [Link]