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📰 Quick News 📰

🍻 Lenovo and NVIDIA are broadening their collaborative efforts to provide AI capabilities worldwide. This move transforms AI consumption by tying it closely with other functions, amplifying the potential use-cases of AI in various systems globally.

🤼‍♀️ In a second AI Insight Forum, the US Senate and Silicon Valley discussed AI regulation. The experts asserted that robust investments in the private and public sectors are necessary, estimating the annual funding cost at $32 billion. A proposal for clear labeling on AI-generated content was also introduced.

🖼️ Amazon is beta testing an AI tool that enables advertisers to create lifestyle backgrounds for product images. The company suggests that placing products within creative scenes helps increase click-through rates by 40%.

🌇 Europe's newest AI hub is being built in a German city no one's heard of: Heilbronn, a quaint German town, is in the process of a massive transformation – thanks to the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Injecting a serious amount of money, the foundation aims to turn the town into a significant AI hub, nurturing startups, creating an ecosystem comparable to the likes of Silicon Valley

🚕 California's DMV has suspended Cruise's robotaxi permit and driverless vehicle testing permits in a decisive move. The decision followed accusations that Cruise had been less than forthcoming with video evidence from an accident that left a pedestrian pinned under one of their autonomous vehicles.

🎤 Google's CEO Sundar Pichai discussed potentially adopting subscription models for their AI offerings. This follows the upward trend of YouTube's subscription revenues. If implemented, such changes would significantly influence the monetization of AI technology and decrease the accessibility of AI for everyday consumers.

ℹ️ Google announces tools to help users fact check images, including access to an image's history, metadata, and user context on multiple platforms. helping users ascertain when it was first indexed by Google, facilitating the debunking of false claims.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🏷️ HumanSignal has launched Adala, an open source framework for autonomous data labeling. Adala is an AI-integrated agent designed to fast-track data labeling, transforming it from an often strenuous effort into a more efficient process.

🗂️ Intelligent document processing with Amazon Textract, Amazon Bedrock, and LangChain - to transform unstructured data into structured insights.

🌐 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.

🤖 Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have introduced an innovative robot that, leveraging machine learning, identifies people's locations solely based on the incidental sounds of human movement. Apart from reducing accidents, it offers a less intrusive mode of human detection.

🤳 Adult film icon Riley Reid's latest project is Clona.AI, an online platform featuring AI chatbots modeled after adult content creators. These bots are carefully trained based on consent and guidance from the models, ensuring users can interact with avatars that behave consistent with the original creators' preferences and boundaries.  

🖲️ Humane's AI Pin, set to launch on November 9th, uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to perform myriad tasks. It magnetically attaches to clothing and includes a 'Trust Light' that indicators when it's recording. Despite stiff competition and unanswered questions on its functioning, Humane's gadget deserved a spot in Time's Best Inventions of 2023.

💰 Signos has announced a successful $20M Series B funding round to broaden its AI-based metabolic health platform. Employing real-time data from a continuous glucose monitor, the platform aids users with personalized recommendations for weight control.

🌐 At the Webex One customer conference, Cisco announced a suite of AI tools with functionalities ranging from meeting automation to speech and video enhancement. They also threw in an efficient AI-powered audio codec and a respectful approach to user privacy.

🩺 Heidi Health, backed by Blackbird, relieves doctors of excessive paperwork by transforming consultation transcripts into necessary documents via AI. Based in Melbourne, it currently serves over 100 general practitioners across 30 clinics in Australia, making patient visits more informative and productive.

🖼️ Misuse of artificial intelligence is leading to a troubling influx of child sexual abuse images on the internet. About 3,000 such images have been catalogued by the Internet Watch Foundation that break the UK law. The AI techniques include creating explicit images using existing images of victims and de-aged celebrities.

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