📈 How are companies using AI?

➜ AI's New Frontier: A secretive AI hardware company from Jony Ive and Sam Altman seeks $1 billion in funding. 

ArsTechnica

➜ Talent Wars Heat Up: Tesla escalates AI engineers' salaries to deter poaching by rivals. 

WSJ

➜ Personalized Playlists: Spotify’s AI, still in beta, crafts playlists to match any mood or setting on demand.

Spotify

➜ AI Behind Paywalls: Amidst exploring sustainable AI business models, Google considers premium features for its AI-powered search.

Reuters/FT

➜ Cutting Corners: An investigative piece examines how tech giants were willing to cut corners and might have compromised ethics to accumulate data for AI.

NYTimes

➜ Government Automated: The Alan Turing Institute suggests AI could automate 84% of repetitive government transactions. Honestly, I can't wait. 

The Alan Turing Institute

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ Overcoming AI Restraints: A study reveals "many-shot jailbreaking" techniques to bypass LLMs' restrictions with persistent queries.

Scientific paper 

➜ The Open Source AI Engineer: OpenDevin emerges as an open-source counterpart to autonomous AI software engineers.

MarktechPost

➜ AI for Hand Tracking: Cornell researchers create a wristband that uses AI and soundwaves to monitor hand positions and interactions.

Cornell

➜ Next-Gen AI Chips: SiMa.ai gathers $70M for its multimodal GenAI system-on-chip (SoC) platforms.

TechCrunch

➜ Inspiring Go Players: AI's victory over Go professionals leads to enhanced creativity and skill among players.

HenrikKarlsson

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