🗞 OpenAI Teams Up with Los Alamos Lab for Bioscience AI Research 🧬

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI Teams Up with Los Alamos Lab for Bioscience AI Research 🧬

• Apple Banks on AI to Boost iPhone 16 Sales in 2024 📱

• Microsoft's VALL-E 2 AI Voice Clone Achieves Human-Like Quality 🗣️

• Google DeepMind Unveils JEST: A Game-Changer for AI Training 🧠

• Amazon Rolls Out AI Upgrades to Stay Competitive 🤖

• Elon Musk Predicts Robot Population Surge in Future 🦾

• Musk Criticizes OpenAI's Altman Over Luxury Car Video 🚗

• Ex-OpenAI Employee Warns of Safety Concerns in AI Development 🛳

• Smartphones Shift Focus to AI as Key Selling Point 📲

• Intuit Reshuffles Workforce for AI-Centric Roles 💼

• Hedge Funds Eye South Korean Chip Makers as AI Investment 💰

• K-pop Industry Embraces AI, Sparking Authenticity Debate 🎵

🧬 OpenAI partners with Los Alamos National Laboratory for AI in bioscience research. Link

• OpenAI is collaborating with LANL's bioscience division to evaluate how AI models like GPT-4o can assist scientists in physical lab tasks.

• The partnership will focus on "wet lab techniques" and new AI modalities to potentially expedite learning among scientists.

• This collaboration comes as large tech companies like Microsoft begin distancing themselves from OpenAI amid growing regulatory concerns.

📱 Apple aims for 10% iPhone shipment growth in 2024, banking on AI features. Link

• Apple is targeting 90 million iPhone 16 shipments in 2024, up from 81 million iPhone 15 units in 2023.

• All iPhone 16 models will use A18 chips supporting "Apple Intelligence" AI features, which Apple hopes will drive upgrades.

• Challenges include limited language support at launch and potential delays in European availability due to regulatory concerns.

🗣️ Microsoft's new AI speech generator VALL-E 2 reportedly achieves "human parity" but won't be released publicly. Link

• VALL-E 2 can recreate human voices using just seconds of audio, reaching a level of quality comparable to real human speech.

• The system uses "Repetition Aware Sampling" and "Grouped Code Modeling" to improve speech fluidity and generation efficiency.

• Microsoft won't release VALL-E 2 publicly due to potential misuse risks, like voice impersonation, despite its potential applications.

🧠 Google DeepMind develops new AI training method JEST, targeting eCommerce applications. Link

• JEST (joint example selection) reportedly delivers 13x performance increase and 10x power efficiency improvement over existing methods.

• The technique could reduce AI development costs and energy consumption, potentially impacting eCommerce and multilingual customer support.

• JEST focuses on entire batches of data rather than individual points, using a smaller AI model to grade data quality before training a larger model.

🤖 Amazon announces incremental AI improvements to compete with rivals. Link

• Amazon unveiled refinements to several AI products at a conference in New York, including enhanced memory for AI agents and improved code suggestions for its Q chatbot.

• The company updated its Bedrock service to help reduce AI hallucinations by about 75% for certain uses.

• These improvements aim to counter perceptions that competitors like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have taken the lead in generative AI development.

🤖 Elon Musk predicts robots will far outnumber humans in the future. Link

• Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque tweeted that China will be the first nation with 100 million and then 1 billion robots.

• Musk responded, reiterating his prediction that "The future will have far more robots than people."

• This aligns with Musk's previous statements, including his belief that humanoid robots could eventually outnumber humans by 10 to 1.

🚗 Elon Musk takes swipe at OpenAI's Sam Altman over luxury hypercar video. Link

• A video showing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman driving a Koenigsegg Regera, worth over $1.9 million, sparked online debate.

• Musk sarcastically responded to questions about how OpenAI became for-profit, highlighting ongoing tensions between the tech leaders.

• The Koenigsegg Regera is a limited edition hypercar, with only 85 models made, combining a twin-turbo V8 engine with electric motors.

🛳 Ex-OpenAI safety employee warns company is "building the Titanic" of AI. Link

• William Saunders, who worked on OpenAI's superalignment team for 3 years, resigned due to concerns about the company prioritizing new products over safety.

• Saunders compared OpenAI's approach to the Titanic, emphasizing hubris around safety measures and insufficient "lifeboats" for potential AI disasters.

• He suggests OpenAI should delay releasing new language models to allow more time for researching potential harms, and calls for greater prioritization of safety work.

📱 Smartphone makers focus on AI features as key selling point for latest devices. Link

• Samsung heavily emphasized AI capabilities in unveiling its new Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 phones, mentioning AI 24 times in the press release.

• Google and Apple are expected to similarly highlight AI features in their upcoming Pixel and iPhone launches.

• Key AI features include translation, transcription, image search, and chatbots, with companies aiming to prove these are more than just gimmicks.

💼 Intuit to restructure workforce, laying off 1,800 while planning to rehire for AI-focused roles. Link

• The company will cut 10% of its workforce but plans to rehire 1,800 new employees in engineering, product, and customer-facing positions.

• Intuit aims to invest in its "Big Bets," including a generative AI-powered financial assistant and an AI-driven expert platform.

• The restructuring is not cost-driven but intended to reallocate resources for growth, with overall headcount expected to increase from fiscal year 2025.

💰 Hedge funds target South Korean chipmakers as next AI investment wave. Link

• Major funds like Man Group and FengHe are buying SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, seeing them as undervalued compared to other AI stocks.

• SK Hynix, a key supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips to Nvidia, is up over 70% this year but still trades at a lower valuation than peers.

• South Korea's KOSPI index saw its best month in 7 months in June, with the country attracting the strongest inflows among Asian emerging markets in 2024.

🎵 K-pop embraces AI for music production, sparking fan debate over authenticity. Link

• Popular K-pop group Seventeen admits to using AI for songwriting and music video creation, following industry trend.

• Fans are divided, with some accepting AI as a creative tool while others worry about losing connection to artists' genuine expressions.

• Industry insiders note K-pop's tendency to embrace innovation, but highlight potential demand for more personal, AI-free content in response.

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