Meta backs down on using EU social media to train its AI
Meta canceled its launch of Meta AI in Europe in response to objections to its plan to train its models on users’ social media data. Earlier…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
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OpenAI appoints former NSA head Paul Nakasone to its board
OpenAI has appointed former NSA head and retired General Paul Nakasone to its board of directors. Nakasone’s views on intelligence gathering have raised concerns of civil…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Microsoft delays Recall as it prioritizes security over AI
When Microsoft launches its new Copilot Plus PCs next week they won’t have the much touted and then criticized Recall functionality built-in. The idea behind Recall…
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DAI#43 – AI Apples, search power, and Meta’s EU ‘pretty please’
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s biologically generated AI news. This week AI took over Apple products and gave us iPhone 15 envy. A Chinese…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
Meta to train its AI using social media posts from Europe
Meta plans to use social media content posted by European users of its platforms to train its Llama AI models. The company’s suite of generative AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Apple products get AI boost with OpenAI partnership
Apple used its WWDC 2024 developers conference to announce that a wide range of AI-powered features will be coming to its devices later this year. After…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
NATURAL PLAN: Benchmarking LLMs on natural language planning
Google DeepMind researchers developed NATURAL PLAN, a benchmark for evaluating the capability of LLMs to plan real-world tasks based on natural language prompts. The next evolution…
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Chinese text-to-video generator Kling released to rival Sora
Chinese tech company Kuaishou Technology released a text-to-video (T2V) generator called Kling that could rival OpenAI’s Sora. In February, OpenAI wowed us with Sora demo videos…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#42 – Hot chips, bad memory, and AI ups and downs
Welcome to this week’s roundup of triple-distilled AI news. This week, battle lines were drawn in the chip wars in Taiwan. Microsoft may need to forget…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
DOJ won’t release Biden interview audio over deepfake concerns
The US Justice Department (DOJ) cited risks of AI disinformation and deepfakes as reasons why it won’t release audio of Joe Biden’s special counsel interview over…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read