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📰 Quick News 📰

🎨 Meta announced the development of new AI-powered editing capabilities for Facebook and Instagram, coined 'Emu Edit' and 'Emu Video'. These tools will allow users to effortlessly alter images and create videos from simple text descriptions.

🦿 Google is pushing back the launch of its advanced AI model Gemini to early 2024, setting back its position in the cloud services market against competitors like Microsoft and OpenAI. This delay affects the deployment of AI enhancements in Google consumer products, including YouTube and Google Assistant, and stalls potential improvements that the advertising sector could gain from Gemini's capabilities.

😔 Discord's AI chatbot Clyde will be deactivated by December 1st. The chatbot, which is based on OpenAI’s tech, was being tested as a potential staple feature for communication within the app. While the exact reasons for Clyde's shutdown remain undisclosed, the platform continues to explore AI solutions, such as AI-powered conversation summaries and resources for AI developers.

💰 French AI research lab Kyutai, with a budget of $330 million, plans to work on artificial general intelligence and will make its research papers and projects open source. The lab has received funding from various contributors, including French billionaire Xavier Niel and the foundation of Eric Schmidt.

📜The UK government has decided not to enact artificial intelligence (AI) regulations in the near future, opting for a pro-innovation stance to avoid curbing the industry's growth. By not imposing stringent laws like those seen in the EU and China, the UK aims to become an AI powerhouse without the burden of heavy-handed regulation that could potentially slow down technological advancements.

🕷️Google will watermar AI-generated audio with technology called SynthID, allowing the artificial origins of the music to be identified without altering the listening experience. The move is in response to a government initiative to regulate AI content and helps to safeguard against potential misuse of generative AI.

📚 Nerd section 📚

⚒️ Let’s use this weekend to experiment with Amazon PartyRock - where anyone can become a developer 🙂 

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🌐 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.

💓 Toku has created an AI platform that analyzes retina scans to predict heart conditions, earning recognition from the FDA as a breakthrough device, and targeting a 2025 release after completing upcoming trials.

🤖 Several hundred employees on the Amazon Alexa team will lose their jobs as Amazon redirects its focus toward generative AI and away from certain undisclosed initiatives, according to an internal memo.

🧑🏾‍⚖️The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Applied Materials for potentially shipping semiconductor equipment to China's SMIC against export rules, potentially impacting American technology's role in global military dynamics, and prompting market repercussions.

⚙️ Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset - emphasizing AI, promises high-speed AI tasks, 50% better graphics, power-saving advancements, and upgrades in camera and 5G aspects for mid-class devices.

🗣️ An AI-generated voice clone of David Attenborough hilariously narrating a developer's mundane activities has caught the internet's attention, but it also highlights issues of intellectual property and consent.

🪄 A new AI tool called "Make It Real" can transform hand-drawn images into working software, including games. The AI uses OpenAI's GPT-4V to convert sketches into code. This innovation can significantly simplify software development and design processes.

🛰️Blackshark.ai introduces Orca Huntr, a user-friendly AI tool for analyzing satellite images, backed by $15 million in new funding. Orca Huntr allows anyone to identify features or objects in images by simply scribbling on them, with real-time updates to the machine learning model. It’s applicable across industries such as real estate, government, and military. 

🎨 Realtime AI art generation is now available with LCM-LoRA, offering instant visual creation. This innovation could revolutionize design, gaming, and film production by providing quick and affordable content.

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