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📰 No-Noise News 📰

🤖 Gmail has upgraded its spam filters with a new AI text classification system called RETVec, which can understand "adversarial text manipulations" commonly used in spam emails. This upgrade helps prevent emails with special characters, emojis, typos, and other junk characters from bypassing Gmail's defenses. Google claims that RETVec improves the spam detection rate by 38% and reduces the false positive rate by 19.4%.

🔎 Bing introduces a new feature called "Deep Search" powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. Deep Search enhances search queries by providing more relevant and comprehensive answers to complex questions. It expands the description of the search query, finds all possible intents, and displays them to the user for selection.

🦾 Microsoft's Copilot will soon be powered by the latest OpenAI models - GPT-4 Turbo and DALL-E 3, enhancing query understanding and image creation, alongside a code interpreter for developers, and Bing's deep search.

👐 Meta and IBM and 50 other companies have formed an AI Alliance, aimed at advancing open innovation and open science in AI. The alliance will establish working groups, a governing board, and a technical oversight committee to develop AI resources and project standards. The goal is to foster collaboration and information sharing to accelerate innovation and mitigate risks in the AI industry.

💰 EU approves €1.2 billion of aid for European cloud computing project backed by seven EU states, with the aim of boosting EU involvement in the field dominated by US companies. The project is expected to create around 6,000 jobs and stimulate private investments of €1.4 billion. The first results are expected by the end of 2027.

📚 Nerd section 📚

⚒️ Data Engineering: A Formula 1-inspired Guide for Beginners: a beginner's guide to data engineering using a Formula 1 analogy, explaining the importance of data infrastructure and the different layers in data engineering.

🤖 A new quantum algorithm for classical mechanics with an exponential speedup from Google

🌐 Web section 🌐 

So here (but not in the email version) we're adding AI-related stories that may be slightly less attention-grabbing, but still could move the needle in specific sectors and fields.

🚧 AI platform Civitai, backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, generates images that could potentially be categorized as child pornography, according to leaked documents. Seattle-based startup OctoML, which powers Civitai, debated the ethical implications of generating such images but ultimately decided to continue working with the company.

🧑🏾‍⚖️💸 Getty's lawsuit against Stability AI, a startup accused of using copyrighted images to train its AI model, will proceed to trial in the UK. The court found evidence suggesting a conflict of evidence and potential inaccuracies in Stability's claims. This case could have implications for the use of copyrighted materials in AI training.

💲 OpenAI competitor, Mistral AI, is close to securing a funding round of approximately €450 million ($487 million) from investors including Nvidia and Salesforce, with a valuation of about $2 billion. The deal involves €325 million in equity from investors led by Andreessen Horowitz, along with €120 million in convertible debt from Nvidia and Salesforce.

🧒 OpenAI's COO states that AI for business is overhyped, as it cannot deliver significant business change in one fell swoop. While AI has potential to improve, it is still in its experimental phase and not part of critical tools and applications.

🎨 Visual Electric, a company backed by Sequoia Capital, has launched an AI-powered image generator aimed at designers. The tool allows designers to create images using generative AI in a non-linear, creative process. Users can input a prompt, select color palettes, and choose from different moods and formats to generate images.

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