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💥 Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’
🎥 OpenAI seeks Hollywood partnerships ahead of Sora AI video generator release
🍎 Apple gives up on its MicroLED dream
🔍 Google begins public testing of its generative AI search
🧠 AI could detect early risk of psychosis based on brain images
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’LINK
Emad Mostaque has resigned as CEO of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, to focus on pursuing decentralized AI and will also step down from the company's board of directors. Stability AI has appointed Shan Shan Wong and Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs while they look for a permanent replacement, amid a week of significant changes including key developers resigning and legal challenges. Stability AI faces leadership changes amidst departures of key developers and a lawsuit from Getty Images in the UK over the data used to train its popular AI model, Stable Diffusion.
🎥 OpenAI seeks Hollywood partnerships ahead of Sora AI video generator releaseLINK
OpenAI is exploring partnerships with Hollywood by engaging with film studios, media executives, and talent agencies to promote its AI video generator, Sora, ahead of its release. Sora is not yet publicly available, but well-known actors and directors have been granted access. While OpenAI's advancements offer new content creation possibilities, there is concern within the entertainment industry about the impact of AI on jobs, highlighted by a recent strike and caution from figures like Tyler Perry.
🍎 Apple gives up on its MicroLED dreamLINK
Apple has halted its efforts to develop a MicroLED display for the Apple Watch, finding the project too expensive and complex, as reported by Bloomberg.
The discontinuation of the MicroLED project led Apple to cut several dozen engineering jobs, including some at its screen manufacturing facility in California.
Despite stopping the MicroLED display development for the Apple Watch, Apple continues to explore other ways to utilize MicroLED technology in the future.
🔍 Google begins public testing of its generative AI searchLINK
Google is publicly testing AI-generated summaries for complex queries in search results for a small percentage of U.S. users, even if they haven't opted into the Search Generative Experience.
The AI-generated summaries aim to provide value by synthesizing information from multiple sources for complex searches, without requiring users to sign up for the test.
Through this testing phase, Google seeks feedback to refine the technology, while continuing to serve ads around these AI features, with the competition from companies like OpenAI and new AI search approaches emerging.
🧠 AI could detect early risk of psychosis based on brain imagesLINK
A recent study utilized structural MRI data and machine learning to identify individuals at high risk of developing psychosis, potentially aiding in early detection.
The research, part of the ENIGMA Clinical High Risk for Psychosis working group, achieved an accuracy of up to 85% in classifying those at risk of psychosis using data from 1165 individuals.
The study highlights the importance of combining AI with structural MRI to predict psychosis risk and aims to enhance early detection and prevention strategies.
Other news you might like
Researchers find a way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life in a single grain of ice.LINK
Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO.LINK
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman more or less confirms work on AI search engine.LINK
High demand for SpaceX's Starship ceramic tiles on eBay.LINK
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers.LINK
Financial Times tests an AI chatbot trained on decades of its own articles.LINK
Latest research and tools
The Elements of Differentiable Programming: the paper explains how programming with derivatives can enable more efficient and flexible problem solving in computational systems.LINK
DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers: the paper introduces a method to improve the effectiveness of Transformers by increasing the flow of information between layers.LINK
Bertie: a minimal, high-assurance TLS 1.3 implementation written in hacspec, focusing on simplicity, verification, and security, initially developed by Karthikeyan Bhargavan at Inria and now maintained by Cryspen, not recommended for production use yet.LINK
FXYT: a tiny, esoteric, stack-based, postfix, canvas colouring language inspired by Martin Kleppe's Tixy project, designed to create graphical outputs on a 256x256 grid by evaluating input code for each cell to determine its colour.LINK
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