Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!
And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
(00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App
(00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive
(00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
Applications & Business
(00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit
(00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million
(00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push
(00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.
(00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots
(00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
Projects & Open Source
(00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts
(00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures
Research & Advancements
(00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI’s ‘Black Box’
(01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models
(01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model
(01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models
(01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning
(01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models
Policy & Safety
(01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light
(01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill
(01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation
(01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models
(01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI
(01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses
(01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?
(01:42:01) Outro + AI Song
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