TL;DR 17NOV24 + Podcast ... Musk sues Microsoft ,,, Musk sues California ... The end of LLM scalimg???

Last update: Sunday 11/17/24 

Welcome to our 17Nov24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT + podcast of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues ... 1) "Elon Musk targets Microsoft in amended OpenAI lawsuit", (2) "Musk’s X Sues to Block California’s Deepfake Deception Act", and (3) The end of LLM scaling???

Audio podcast ... 13.5 min 

 

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TL;DR 10Nov24 ... Tech pundits' post-election predictions about AI policies under Trump

Last update: Sunday 11/10/24 

Welcome to our 10Nov24 TL;DR summary by Claude + podcast of the past week's top story on our "Useful AI News" page. This podcast is a recording of the Descript app reading Claude's summary in AI imitations of the voices of the blog's editor and his AI staff ... 1) Tech pundits' post-election predictions about AI policies under Trump.

19 June 2017 photo of then President Trump with
CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon

Audio podcast ... 13 min 

 

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TL;DR 3Nov24 and podcast ... SearchGPT now embedded in ChatGPT ... Big Tech quarterly reports ... Apple Intelligence (so far)

Last update: Sunday 11/3/24 

Welcome to our 3Nov24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT + podcast of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues ... 1) SearchGPT embedded in ChatGPT, (2) Big Tech quarterly reports, and (3) Apple Intelligence (so far)

Audio podcast ... 11.5 min 

 

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TL;DR 28Oct24 ... Anthropic's new agent ... Other new Big Tech agents

Last update: Monday 10/28/24 

Welcome to our 28Oct24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT + podcast of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in AI imitations of the voice of the editor of this blog and the voices of other AI members of the blog's staff ... This week's top stories were about the arrival of the first wave of Big Tech's long awaited AI agents ... 1) Anthropic's "Compute Use" agent and (2) Other Big Tech agents

 

Audio podcast ... 21 min 

   

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TL;DR 21Oct24 + podcast of 3 top stories ... Big Tech goes nuclear, ... Enhancements to Google's NotebookLM ... Bad grades for students using AI

Last update: Monday 10/21/24 

Welcome to our 21Oct24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT + podcast of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. The podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in AI imitations of the voices of the blog's editor and  the voices of other AI members of the blog's staff ... 1) Big Tech goes nuclear, (2) Enhancements to Google's NotebookLM, and (3) Bad grades for students using AI

Audio podcast ... 13.3 min 

 

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TL;DR 12Oct24 + podcast ... Google's Demis Hassabis wins a Nobel prize for chemistry ... Google's Geoffry Hinton wins a Nobel prize for physics

Last update: Saturday 10/12/24 

Dr. Demis Hassabis (chemistry)

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton (physics}

Welcome to our 12Oct24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT (and the editor of this blog) + podcast of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. Last week, our top stories were all about OpenAI. This week our top stories feature Google, more specifically, the Nobel prizes that its current and former employees just received for their AI models. 

As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading the TL;DR summaries in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog ... 1) Google's Demis Hassabis won a Nobel prize for chemistry and (2) Google's Geoffry Hinton won a Nobel prize for physics.

Audio podcast ... 6 min 

 

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TL;DR + podcast 6Oct24 ... OpenAI just raised $6.6 billion ... Openai's Canvas ... OpenAI’s DevDay

Last update: Sunday 10/6/24 

Welcome to our 6Oct24 TL;DR summaries by SearchGPT + podcast of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page.  All three  stories were about OpenAI because, arguably, last week was the most important week in OpenAI's history since Sam Altman was suddenly fired in late November, 2023.  

As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog ... 1) OpenAI just raised $6.6 billion, (2) Openai's Canvas, and (3) OpenAI’s DevDay

Audio podcast ... 5.5 min 

 

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Special edition : TL;DR 2Oct24 + podcast ... OpenAI DevDay 2024

Last update: Wednesday 10/2/24 

Welcome to our 2Oct24 special edition TL;DR summary by SearchGPT + podcast of the announcements made by OpenAI at its DevDay 2024 conference yesterday (10/1/24). This event was posted on our Useful AI News page. The podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading SearchGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog 

Audio podcast ... 2 min 

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TL;DR 29Sep24 .+ podcast .. CTO Murati leaves OpenAI .... Google's EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft ... AI announcements at Meta Connect 2024 -- DRAFT

Last update: Sunday 9/29/24 

Welcome to our 29Sep24 TL;DR summaries by SearchGPT + podcast of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. The podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading SearchGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog ... 1) CTO Murati leaves OpenAI, (2)  ... Google's EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, and (3) "AI announcements at Meta Connect 2024"

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Audio podcast ... 5 min 

 

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Special edition -- SearchGPT's TL;DR summary of the AI-related innovations announced at Meta's Connect 2024

Last update: Thursday 9/26/24 

Welcome to our 26Sep24 special edition TL;DR summary by SearchGPT + podcast of the AI-related innovations announced at Meta's Connect 2024 conference yesterday (9/25/24). This event was posted on our Useful AI News page. The podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading SearchGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog 

Audio podcast ... 3 min 

 

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Microsoft goes nuclear for AI power ... California's ‘Deepfake’ Laws ... OpenAI's mighty miniature model ... Intel becomes takeover target . ... TLDR 22Sep24.

Last update: Monday 9/23/24 

Welcome to our 22Sep24 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT + podcast of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog ... 1) Microsoft goes nuclear for AI power , (2) California's ‘Deepfake’ Laws, (3) OpenAI's mighty miniature model, and (4) Intel becomes takeover target  

Audio podcast ... 6.5 min 

 

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OpenAI's Strawberry ... Fei-Fei Li's startup ... SearchGPT vs ChatGPT ...TLDR 15Sep24

Last update: Monday 9/16/24 

Welcome to our TL;DR 15Sep24 summary by ChatGPT + podcast of the past week's top 2 stories (plus an editor's note) on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary using an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog ... 1) New Strawberry details, (2) Fei-fei Li’s startup ... and an editor's note about 3) SearchGPT vs ChatGPT.

  

Audio podcast ... 6.5 min 

 

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TL;DR 9Sep24 -- AI related announcements at Apple's special iPhone16 event 2024

Last update: Tuesday 9/10/24 

Welcome to our 9Sep24 podcast + TL;DR summary by ChatGPT of the AI related announcements at Apple's iPhone 16 Event 2024. As Usual, the podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary in an AI imitation of the voice of the editor of this blog.

Audio podcast ... 2 min 

 

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Podcast of Chat GPT's TL;DR 8Sep24 summaries of top 5 AI stories last week

Last update: Sunday 9/8/24 

Welcome to our podcast of ChatGPT's 8Sep24 TL;DR summary of the past week's top 5 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ... 1) Nvidia's stock sinks, (2) August 2025 decision on Google monopoly case, (3) US, UK, and EU  sign AI treaty, (4) Sutskever's billion dollar AI safety start-up, and (5) Ex-Google CEO's banned interview ... Our podcast is the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summary while doing an AI imitation of our blog editor's voice.

Audio podcast ... 6.5 min 

 

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Special edition ... Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent controversial interview at Stanford University... TL;DR 3Sep24 summary and podcast

Last update: Tuesday 9/3/24 

Welcome to our special edition 3Sep24 TL;DR summary and podcast of a top story on our "Useful AI News" page about Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent controversial interview at Stanford University. The TL;DR was written by ChatGPTl; the podcast was read by the Descript app doing an AI imitation of the blog editor's voice.

Audio podcast ... 3.3 min 

 

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