The Batch

Oct 09, 2024

6 Posts

Diagram illustrating the process of developing, deploying, and promoting a malicious LLM application.
Oct 09, 2024

AI’s Criminal Underground Revealed: Researchers uncover black market for AI-driven cybercrime services

Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.
Collage of various images featuring a baseball player, movie scenes, portraits, landscapes, and diverse wildlife.
Oct 09, 2024

German Court Says LAION Didn’t Violate Copyrights: LAION wins copyright case in Germany

A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.
A smartphone on a table showing an incoming call with voice waveform displayed on screen.
Oct 09, 2024

Voice-to-Voice and More for GPT-4o API: OpenAI unveils tools for speech, vision, and cost-efficiency at DevDay

OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.
A demonstration of video editing through text input, altering a runner’s background and costume.
Oct 09, 2024

Familiar Faces, Synthetic Soundtracks: Meta debuts Movie Gen for text-to-video generation with consistent characters

Meta upped the ante for text-to-video generation with new systems that produce consistent characters and matching soundtracks.
Three people, Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng, and Geoff Hinton, stand together at Hinton’s retirement party.
Oct 09, 2024

Nobel Prizes for AI!: Nobel committees for physics and chemistry honored AI researchers. How can the AI community itself can celebrate the next generation of innovators?

Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!
How Meta’s Movie Gen Does It, AI’s Criminal Underground, Court Says LAION is Legal, OpenAI’s New Voice API
Oct 09, 2024

How Meta’s Movie Gen Does It, AI’s Criminal Underground, Court Says LAION is Legal, OpenAI’s New Voice API

The Batch AI News and Insights: Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!

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