United Nations creates advisory body to address AI governance

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📃 ‘EU’s AI act could kill our company,’ says Mistral’s Cédric O - The forthcoming AI act from the EU could greatly impact AI startups like Mistral. Depending on the final form of the act, it could hinder Mistral's growth or give them a chance to rival tech giants like OpenAI and Google

🛡️ OpenAI has announced the establishment of a new team to evaluate and protect against serious challenges posed by AI technologies, including autonomous replication, cybersecurity threats, and even nuclear hazards.

💗 The team behind Stable Diffusion from LAION aims to open-source emotion-detection technology. The goal is to equip AI with a better grasp on human emotions, leading to chatbots and text-to-speech models responding to users with more emotional intelligence.

🧑‍⚖️ LexisNexis has released Lexis+ AI, a generative AI tool for law firms and corporations. It simplifies legal research, drafts contracts, delivers case summaries rapidly and offers document upload capabilities. Ultimately, Lexis+ AI uses OpenAI and Anthropic large language models, translated into substantial efficiency increases in the legal profession.

🖥️ IBM launches Gen-AI-powered Watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise - Technical preview indicates increased productivity by 20-45%, with an impressive overall average acceptance rate of 85%.

📱 Honor teases the Magic 6 smartphone with eye-tracking and a built-in LLM 

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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.

📷 Leica hopes its New $9,500 camera can save photojournalism from AI - with a new watermarking mechanism which embeds each image's metadata with a verification mark. It is a direct counter against the concerning rise of AI-engineered image misinformation, ensuring every image can be traced back to its origin.

🗑️  It’s a “fake PR stunt”: Artists and writers are up in arms about Meta's dysfunctional data deletion process. They feel caught in a system that exploits their hard work and doesn't offer an opt-out option, leading to widespread frustration.

💲Abridge, a startup specializing in healthcare, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round championed by Spark Capital. Its AI-based platform assists doctors in organizing patient information, streamlining administrative duties, and can save clinicians more than two hours each day.

💰 Meet the New AI Unicorns Of 2023 - 15 AI companies joined the billion-dollar startup club, contributing $21 billion in value. The top players include AI cloud company, Databricks at $43 billion, autonomous driving startup, Cruise, and generative AI firm, OpenAI.

😨 The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's AI-powered tool, dubbed Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST), has been scanning social media for posts considered "derogatory" to the US. The system profiles potential visa applicants and assigns them a score, evaluating images and connections on their profiles that could suggest a risk.

🤖 Citigroup is planning to deploy generative AI among its coders, after testing it on a 1,089-page set of rules. The AI was able to sift through the document, making the team's job easier. The bank still insists humans are needed to oversee the tech outputs.

🐕 Spot, Boston Dynamics' robot dog, has a new asset - ChatGPT. This technological innovation enables Spot to interact dynamically with humans, offering us an insight into a fascinating future where robots are eloquent tour guides.

🔎 Forbes has launched a new AI search tool, "Adelaide", a product of Google Cloud, that can dig into a year's worth of Forbes' content, answering queries and suggesting relevant articles.

🗒️ OpenAI is reportedly under pressure as larger customers such as Salesforce look for more affordable AI options. Reports indicate that Microsoft is profiting from selling OpenAI's products, and competition from cheaper open-source models adds to the challenges faced by OpenAI.

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