Meta's new AI Assistant ... Meta's Llama 3 ... Microsoft's billion dollar deal with Emirati ... Boston Dynamics' new Atlas robot ... TL;DR summary 21Apr24

Last update: Tuesday 4/23/24 

Welcome to our 21Apr24 TL;DR summary of the past week's top 4 out of 8 new stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) Meta's AI Assistant, (2) Meta's Llama 3 small language models, (3) Microsoft's $1.5 billion deal with Emirati, and (4) Boston Dynamics' new Atlas robot 

 

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OpenAI's robot ... Humane's Ai Pin ... Claude's 2 min summary of Klein's 90 min interview with Amodei ... TL;DR 14Apr24 (no podcast this week)

Last update: Wednesday 4/17/24 

Welcome to our 14Apr24 TL;DR summary of the past week's top 3 AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) OpenAI's new Robot, (2) Humane's Ai Pin, and (3) Claude's 2 min summary of Klein's 90 min interview with Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic  

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Anthropic's "many-shot jailbreaking" LLM hack ... Two recent Ezra Klein genAI podcasts ... TL;DR + podcast 7Mar24

Last update: Sunday 4/7/24 

Welcome to our 7Mar24 podcast + TL;DR summary of the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) Anthropic's "many-shot jailbreaking" LLM hack and (2) Two recent Ezra Klein genAI podcasts 

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Building the most powerful LLMs -- Amazon/Anthropic, Databricks, Musk, and Microsoft/OpenAI ... TL;DR + podcast 31Mar24

Last update: Sunday 3/31/24 

Welcome to our 31Mar24 podcast + TL;DR summary of the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) Amazon adds $2.75 billion to Anthropic 2) DBRX = most powerful open source LLM (3) Elon Musk's Grok-1.5 LLM and (4) Microsoft/OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer,

Audio podcast ... 9 min 

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Nvidia's new chips ... Musk's Grok-1 ... Microsoft hires DeepMind founder .. GPT-5 ... Gemini on iPhones ... TL;DR + podcast 24Mar24

Last update: Sunday 3/24/24 

Welcome to our 24Mar24 podcast + TL;DR summary of the past week's top 5 AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page ... (1) More powerful Nvidia chips, (2) Musk releases his chatbot's code, 3) Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder, (4) OpenAI's GPT-5 "soon", and (5) Apple might use Google's Gemini for iPhones

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➡ Nvidia + Musk + Microsoft + GPT-5 + Apple/Google 

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EU AI regs ... Google blocks Gemini election queries ... more amazing SORA videos ... and is GenAI the new crypto ...TL;DR and podcast 18Mar24

Last update: Monday 3/18/24 

Welcome to our 18MAR24 podcast + TL;DR summary of the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) EU approves AII regulations (2) Google blocks Gemini responses to election queries everywhere (3) OpenAI freaks out Wall Street Journal with Sora's videos and (4) Little evidence so far that generative AI really boosts profits

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➡ EU + Google + OpenAI + GenAI        

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Musk sues Altman/OpenAI ... TL;DR and podcast 3Mar24

Last update: Monday 3/11/24 

Welcome to our 3Mar24 podcast + TL;DR summary of the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page. Unfortunately the editor of this blog only had time to produce a TL;DR and podcast for only one top story ➡ Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman ... in two parts.

The first part considers Musk's goal in funding the establishment of OpenAI -- the development of AI via open source code available to everyone; the failure of this strategy; and the likelihood that Musk will lose his lawsuit. The second part briefly sketches a high-powered revision of this strategy that replaces Musk with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) as the sponsor of a dual use initiative. 

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➡  1. Musk's failed 2015 AI strategy and subsequent lawsuit 
➡ 2. High-powered 2024 version of Musk's AI strategy       

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Google's Gemma, Intel chips designed by Microsoft, and Gemini's "diverse" hallucinations ... TL;DR and podcast 25Feb24

Last update: Sunday 2/25/24 

Welcome to our 25Feb24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top 3 AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) Google'e new open source model Gemma, (2) Microsoft's chip partnership with Intel, and (3) Gemini's "woke" hallucinations ... Plus links to other notable new reports.

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➡ Google + Microsoft + Google     

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Google's new Gemini 1.5 ... plus OpenAI's disruptions ... TL;DR and podcast 18Feb24

Last update: Monday 2/19/24 

Welcome to our 18Feb24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ 1) Google's new Gemini 1.5, (2) ChatGPT's personal memory, (3) OpenAI's Sora video generator, and 4) OpenAI's Internet search 

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➡  Google + OpenAI + OpenAI + OpenAI      

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Google runs Microsoft's playbook very badly; well-intended public policies; and Altman's $trillions ...TL;DR and podcast 12Feb24

Last update: Monday 2/12/24 

Welcome to our 12Feb24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  ➡ (1) US AI Consortium, (2) FCC, (3) Altman , and (4) Google

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➡ Consortium + FCC + Altman + Google 
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Big Tech's investor conference calls ... TL;DR and podcast 5Feb24

Last update: Wednesday 2/7/24 

Welcome to our 5Jan24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ GenAI related comments by CEOs during investor conference calls about the latest quarterly reports from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft 

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    ➡ Google + Apple + Amazon + Microsoft 

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Microsoft's new “small” AI team ... TL;DR and podcast 28Jan24

Last update: Monday 1/31/24 

Welcome to our 28Jan24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top AI story on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Microsoft creates new team to build “small” AI, 

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➡ Microsoft creates new “small” AI team         

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Sam Altman (AI's Oracle at Davos) and AI smartphones ... TL;DR and podcast 21Jan24

Last update: Sunday 1/21/24

Welcome to our 21Jan24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  

1) AI's Oracle at Davos, and (2) Samsung's new AI smartphones

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 ➡ AltmanAtDavos + SamsungAIPhones

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Massive copyright violations and a ChatGPT app store ... TL;DR and podcast 14Jan24

Last update: Tuesday 1/16/24 

Welcome to our 14Jan24 TL;DR summary + podcast about the top two stories that were posted on our "Useful AI News" page during the first two weeks of 2024:

1) The massive copyright violation lawsuit filed by the New York Times against OpenAi and Microsoft, and (2) OpenAI's strategy to convert ChatGPT into a revenue generating platform..

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➡ Massive copyright violations + ChatGPT app store

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Happy New Year!!! Top AI stories of 2023 ... TL;DR and podcast 9Jan24

Last update: Friday 1/12/24 

Happy New Year!!! ... And welcome to our TL;DR summary + podcast about the top AI stories that were posted on our "Useful AI News" page in 2023. We selected the stories that we thought will prove to be the most useful for predicting what the top AI stories will be in 2024.

Our first top story is OpenAI's movement of ChatGPT to its new GPT-4 model in March 2023, a move that led to ChatGPT's domination of the AI news sector for the rest of the year. Our second top story is about the most significant Big Tech challenges to OpenAI's supremacy in the final weeks of 2023, i.e., challenges from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft ... yes, Microsoft.

These top stories framed our prediction of the top stories for 2024. Spoiler alert, here's our prediction: Whereas large language models (LLMs) dominated AI news throughout 2023, the rapid and widespread proliferation of small language models (SLMs) will be the dominant AI news stories throughout 2024. 

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