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Building an AI Oasis: Saudi Arabia’s $100 billion bet to become a global AI powerhouse
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Building an AI Oasis: Saudi Arabia’s $100 billion bet to become a global AI powerhouse

Saudi Arabia plans to spend billions of dollars to become a global AI hub. 
Why ChatGPT Acts That Way: OpenAI introduces guidelines for model behavior, seeks public feedback
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Why ChatGPT Acts That Way: OpenAI introduces guidelines for model behavior, seeks public feedback

OpenAI pulled back the curtain on revised rules that will guide its models. 
Landmine Recognition: AI supports specialists in battlefields by detecting landmines and other unexploded ordnance.
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Landmine Recognition: AI supports specialists in battlefields by detecting landmines and other unexploded ordnance.

An AI system is scouring battlefields for landmines and other unexploded ordnance, enabling specialists to defuse them.
Timeline of OpenAI's news licensing agreements
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OpenAI Licenses News Archives: OpenAI licenses Financial Times archive in fifth deal with major news publishers

OpenAI has been making deals with publishers to gain access to high-quality training data. It added Financial Times to the list. 
GitHub Copilot Workspace preview
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Coding Assistance Start to Finish: GitHub previews Copilot Workspace for end-to-end software development

GitHub Copilot’s latest features are designed to help manage software development from plan to pull request. 
Amazon's Just Walk Out store
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Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service

Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...
Results from Stanford's AI Index Report 2024
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AI Trends in Depth: Stanford’s AI Index Report shows the state of AI in 2024

More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year. 
Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.
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Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.

Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.
Benchmarks that rank large language models’ performance of industry tasks
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Benchmarks for Industry: Vals AI evaluates large language models on industry-specific tasks.

How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.
Udio and Suno web pages
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Songs Made to Order: Text-to-music services evolve with Udio and Suno’s customized song creations.

A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.
Screen recording of the GPT Store's homepage
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GPT Store Shows Lax Moderation: A report exposes policy violations in OpenAI’s GPT Store.

OpenAI has been moderating its GPT Store with a very light touch. In a survey of the GPT Store’s offerings, TechCrunch found numerous examples of custom ChatGPT instances that appear to violate the store’s own policies.
Hallucination Creates Security Holes: Researcher exposes risks in AI-generated code
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Hallucination Creates Security Holes: Researcher exposes risks in AI-generated code

Language models can generate code that erroneously points to software packages, creating vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.
Custom Agents, Little Coding: All about Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder
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Custom Agents, Little Coding: All about Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder

Google is empowering developers to build autonomous agents using little or no custom code.
Chart showing how people are using generative AI according to a recent survey
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What Users Do With Generative AI: Studies from Filtered and Pew uncover trends in generative AI usage

Generative AI is being used mostly to generate ideas. The tech consultancy Filtered studied the most common uses for generative AI. While most gen AI users produced text, the study surprisingly found that users were slightly more likely to generate videos than images.
Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges
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Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges

The CEO of Stability AI resigned as the company faces an increasingly competitive market.
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