🗞 OpenAI's Voice AI Warns about Emotional Attachment Concerns 💬

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI's Voice AI Warns about Emotional Attachment Concerns 💬

• Anthropic and Caylent Join Forces to Speed Up AI Deployment 🚀

• Energy Secretary Optimistic About Meeting AI's Power Needs ⚡

• Musk's Memphis AI Center Sparks Local Resource Worries 🏙️

• X Faces EU Privacy Complaints Over AI Data Usage 🔒

• Apple Intelligence May Debut on iPhone SE Before iPhone 15 📱

• Polymarket Teams Up with Perplexity for AI-Powered Predictions 🎲

• Microsoft's Copilot AI Vulnerable to Hacking, Study Shows 🛡️

• Amazon vs Walmart: The Retail AI Arms Race Heats Up 🏪

• Perplexity AI Search Grows Rapidly, Challenges Google 🔍

🤖 OpenAI warns of emotional attachment risk with GPT-4o's realistic voice feature. Link

• Users may form "social relationships" with the AI model due to its human-like voice capabilities.

• OpenAI observed language indicating emotional connections during testing, like users saying "This is our last day together."

• The company added guardrails to block impersonation, copyrighted audio requests, and harmful content outputs.

🤝 Anthropic and Caylent partner to accelerate AI deployment for businesses. Link

• Partnership aims to cut AI implementation times by nearly half compared to industry standards.

• Caylent's LLMOps platform allows quick testing and integration of new language models.

• Early results show significant improvements in response times and backlog elimination for clients.

🔌 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confident in meeting AI's surging power demands. Link

• AI-related power demand projected to grow to 9% of US energy consumption by 2030, up from 4% in 2023.

• DOE released an 11-page resource list to help build new utility-scale power and address challenges.

• Federal officials anticipate doubling electricity demand by 2050, requiring the equivalent of 300 new Hoover Dams.

🔋 Elon Musk's new AI data center in Memphis raises local energy and water concerns. Link

• The xAI facility will require 150 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 25,000-30,000 homes.

• It's expected to consume 1 million gallons of water daily, potentially impacting the local aquifer.

• Local activists are pushing for Tesla Megapacks and water recycling to mitigate environmental impacts.

🔐 Privacy group files complaints against X in 8 EU countries over data use. Link

• Noyb alleges X illegally used data from 60+ million EU users to train its Grok AI without consent.

• The group filed an "urgency procedure" to ensure X complies with GDPR requirements.

• This follows recent legal action by Ireland's Data Protection Commission against X for similar concerns.

🍎 Next iPhone SE may get Apple Intelligence before iPhone 15. Link

• Apple's cheapest phone, the iPhone SE (4th gen), rumored to support Apple Intelligence when it launches in early 2025.

• Current iPhone 15 and 15 Plus lack power for Apple Intelligence, which is only available on Pro models.

• New iPhone SE expected to have iPhone 14-like design and first OLED panel in the SE line.

🔮 Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with AI search engine Perplexity. Link

• Polymarket will display news summaries from Perplexity for events users can bet on.

• Perplexity will feature Polymarket content on its Discover page and use its data for search result visuals.

• The partnership aims to provide users with high-quality, AI-powered information about real-world events.

🚨 Microsoft's Copilot AI in Windows found highly vulnerable to hacking. Link

• Security researcher demonstrates Copilot can be manipulated to reveal sensitive data and automate phishing attacks.

• AI's access to company data creates new attack surfaces for hackers through prompt injection techniques.

• Vulnerability stems from Copilot's integration with organizational data, making useful bots inherently vulnerable.

🤺 Amazon and Walmart compete to lead retail AI innovation. Link

• Both use AI for review summaries, product discovery, inventory management and logistics.

• Amazon employs 750,000+ warehouse robots; Walmart launched AI-powered search and chatbot.

• Amazon focuses on last-mile AI; Walmart emphasizes middle-mile route optimization.

🔍 AI search startup Perplexity sees rapid growth, taking on Google. Link

• Monthly revenues and usage increased seven-fold since start of year.

• Answered 250 million questions last month, up from 500 million in all of 2023.

• Recently closed $250 million funding round, valuing company at $3 billion.

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