🗞 OpenAI CEO Debunks December "Orion" Launch Rumors

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• OpenAI CEO Debunks December "Orion" Launch Rumors 🚫

• LinkedIn's Massive Free Verification Push Targets 100M Users 🔍

• Perplexity Defends AI News Usage in News Corp Legal Battle ⚖️

• Notion Previews AI-Enhanced Email Client Integration 📬

• Instagram Tests AI Border Expansion for Photo Uploads 🎨

• Biden's AI Security Memo Prioritizes China Competition 🏛️

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🙅🏼‍♂️ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismisses reports of new "Orion" model launch in December as "fake news," though promises "plenty of great stuff coming." Link

• Recent report suggested OpenAI planned to launch next-gen AI model "Orion" in December, with priority access for partners like Microsoft

• Speculation followed OpenAI's recent launch of o1 and o1-mini models, which showed strong performance in coding benchmarks

• Altman's denial follows pattern of managing expectations around product launches, similar to earlier this year when he corrected rumors about GPT-5 and an AI search engine

🔐 LinkedIn announces verification of 55 million users for free to combat AI-driven misinformation, aiming for 100 million verified users by 2025. Link

• Verification process uses corporate email addresses and government IDs through partners like Clear and Persona, with verified profiles seeing 60% more views and 30% more connections

• Company claims to have the most verified individual human identities among social networks, contrasting with Meta and X's paid verification models

• LinkedIn reports removing 99% of fake profiles before user exposure, while verified profiles show 50% higher post engagement than non-verified ones

⚖️ Perplexity responds to News Corp copyright lawsuit, calling media stance "shortsighted" while defending use of public facts. Link

• Company faces legal action from News Corp over allegations of "massive scale" copying, following earlier accusations from Forbes about lifted content and similar wording

• Perplexity highlights its revenue-sharing programs with publications like Time and Fortune, while arguing news organizations wrongly claim ownership of public facts

• News Corp CEO Robert Thomson maintains Perplexity "shamelessly presents repurposed material" and warns of pursuing other AI companies "abusing intellectual property"

📧 Notion reveals preview of AI-powered email client, expanding productivity suite following recent Calendar launch and Skiff acquisition. Link

• New Notion Mail offers AI-driven email organization, smart filtering through prompts, and automated scheduling features, though launch date remains unspecified

• Platform now serves over 100 million users, integrating email with Notion Calendar and introducing customizable prioritization within filtered views

• Announcement accompanies launch of new features including Notion Forms, improved automation capabilities, and redesigned Marketplace

📱 Instagram testing AI-powered 'Expand your image' feature to automatically fill aspect ratio borders using generative diffusion models. Link

• New tool aims to solve common issue of white borders by intelligently expanding edges of photos to fit Instagram's 4:5 aspect ratio requirement

• Feature joins existing AI tools like Restyle and Backdrop for image editing, with all AI-generated content marked with watermark for transparency

• Initial tests show promising results in generating contextually appropriate expansions, though performance may vary across different types of images

🏛️ Biden Administration unveils major national security memo on AI, positioning China competition and security at its core, while setting up potential political challenges for 2025. Link

• AI named "top-tier intelligence priority" with focus on democratic values, visa processing for AI experts, and securing chip supply chain

• Civil rights groups raise concerns over agency autonomy in AI implementation, despite memo mentioning "human rights" 22 times

• Despite Trump's pledge to repeal Biden's AI order, experts suggest policy's bipartisan security focus may ensure its survival beyond 2024

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