Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson
  • (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
  • (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App
  • (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive
  • (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
  • (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles
• Applications & Business
  • (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit
  • (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million
  • (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push
  • (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.
  • (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots
  • (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:48:35)