Stable *VIDEO* Diffusion announced

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📰 No-Noise News 📰

🎞️ Stability AI unveils Stable Video Diffusion, an AI model for generating videos from text, open-sourced for feedback but not for real-world application, with potential to impact industries such as advertising, education, and entertainment.

🤖 Anthropic released Claude 2.1 AI, doubling its context understanding to 200K tokens and improving accuracy and integration with tools, enabling better business operations and data handling.

🦾 Windows 10 users can now test Microsoft's Copilot feature; it's similar to Windows 11's version but with some differences, and despite new AI inputs, no major system updates are planned.

🎤 ChatGPT released for free their voice feature that allows users to communicate with the AI chatbot using their voice in the mobile app. Voice was previously only available to paying users.

🖥️ Inflection AI released a new AI model, Inflection-2, claiming it nearly matches OpenAI's GPT-4 while outperforming Google's and Meta's models, with integration into their chatbot Pi planned soon.

🏢 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its process to expedite investigations into illicit activities involving artificial intelligence. This unanimous decision was driven by a commitment to fight increasingly sophisticated forms of fraud, such as AI-generated phishing attacks, that are growing concerns in consumer protection.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🖥️ A gentle introduction to Steerable Neural Networks: the article introduces SNNs, which are an evolution of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). SNNs offer enhanced flexibility and can capture a wider range of transformations, such as rotation, making them valuable for tasks like image segmentation and 3D object recognition.

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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.

🤖 Elon Musk announced that xAI's chatbot, Grok, will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers next week. Grok, which has a personality and can respond "with a bit of a wit," aims to differentiate itself from other AI chatbots. The addition of Grok to the higher-priced subscription tier could help boost sign-ups for X's Premium service.

⚖️ Julian Sancton, representing non-fiction authors, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for not compensating authors whose works were used to train AI algorithms

💉 Oxford researchers have developed a method that uses AI to detect antibiotic resistance faster than traditional testing methods. By analyzing bacterial cell images, the AI model can accurately detect antibiotic resistance and return results within 30 minutes.

🎭 And the rest of the OpenAI drama unfolded ~around they reinstated him as CEO:

OpenAI has announced its new board of directors, including Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. The appointment of Summers, an economist and political veteran, is strategic for OpenAI as it seeks to establish connections with governments, businesses, and academia. This move comes after OpenAI's previous board of directors fired Sam Altman as CEO, and Altman is expected to return as CEO with the new board. The board is currently described as "initial" and may change in the future.

Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI - Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk stirred up the OpenAI controversy by sharing an anonymous letter critical of former CEO Sam Altman, which was quickly removed from GitHub.

OpenAI employees threw a party with a smoke machine to celebrate Sam Altman's return, which set off the fire alarm and brought two fire trucks.

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