Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nWith guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or\xa0hello@gladstone.ai\nTimestamps + Links:\n(00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections\nTools & Apps\n(00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson\n(00:16:14) Microsoft\u2019s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft\u2019s key to unlocking the future of PCs\n(00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App\n(00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it\u2019s impressive\n(00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US\n(00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit\n(00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million\n(00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push\n(00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.\n(00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots\n(00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo\n(00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts\n(00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box'\n(01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models\n(01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model\n(01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models\n(01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning\n(01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:15:01) World\u2019s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light\n(01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill\n(01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation\n(01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models\n(01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments \u2014 including a \u2018kill switch\u2019 if they can\u2019t mitigate risks\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over \u2018unauthorized\u2019 use of its content to train AI\n(01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses\n(01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?\n\n(01:42:01) Outro + AI Song