Anthropic updates Sonnet, says it beats everything else, updates smaller faster cheaper Haiku model. Also 'computer use', watching and operating your computer?
Mollick on Claude Computer Use capabilities.
Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability - Simon Willison
In maybe a year or two we should see AI models that understand what you are doing on the screen and let you tell them to write a script to automate it.
Joanna Stern talks with Craig Federighi, discusses Apple AI features about to be released, and the roadmap. - WSJ
Full interview
Apple’s Tim Cook meets Chinese regulators but no word on AI roll-out. They will presumably want everything localized and nerfed to avoid sensitive topics. - South China Morning Post
AI to detect when your phone is snatched and automatically lock it.
In a lawsuit, the mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before he committed suicide. (But maybe lock up the .45 tho?) - NY Times
Enterprise process automation company UiPath adds gen-AI agents. - SiliconANGLE
Highlight AI is an always-on assistant that run on Macs with Apple Silicon, that transcribes, summarizes, critiques, finds your calendar availability.
AI in space at low power, high latency. - Fast Company
AI tech to let police follow suspects' cars from camera to camera without license plate reading. - Fox News
FTC issues rules against fake product reviews. - Futurism
AI to automatically analyze your bowel movements. - digitalcameraworld
TMI for your IBS?
Added an automatic podcast creation to the notebook using 'podcastfy' module, elevenlabs and ffmpeg, not quite as fluid as NotebookLM but could fully customize the prompt to generate the pod, the voices in elevenlabs etc. https://youtu.be/-wn2sjzpbXY - YouTube
Qualcomm, Google partner to create intense AI-powered car dashboards and voice controls. - Android Central
ABBA, Radiohead, The Cure, Kevin Bacon, Kate McKinnon, and thousands of artists sign AI protest letter against 'unlicensed use' of works - ABC News
Joseph Gordon-Levitt says if he'd known his contracts let AI train on his performance and recreate his image, he wouldn't have signed them. We must go deeper. I say: don't think about AI. What are you thinking about? - WSJ
Runway introduces a sick motion-capture tool. - Runway ML
Can you sus out the deepfakes? Likenesses Of Michael Douglas, Amy Schumer And Chris Rock Warn Voters Of Election “Deepfakes” In New PSA - Deadline
Genmo says its Mochi 1 model the best open source text-to-video system. - Genmo
Asana adds no-code agents - ZDNET
Meta tests facial recognition to help combat ads using celebrity images, and to facilitate account recovery. - TechCrunch
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 - Stability AI
Maybe having an AI that's the best version of one candidate debating an AI that's the best version of the other candidate, and only making points that are linked to reputable sources, would be a step up. - Fast Company
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