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- Applications & Business
- Google's Shuffles Assistant Leadership to Focus on Bard AI
- Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI
February 2023 Robotics Investments Total $620 Million- With Human Metalworkers Hard to Come By, Robotic Blacksmiths Step Up
Lighting Round- Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads
Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companiesGoogle Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHubBirth of a Salesman: OpenAI Sheds Its Lab Coat to Seek Big Deals- Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AILighting Round- Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons
Policy & Societal Impacts
- The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explainedLighting Round- How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images go mainstream
FTC Is Reviewing Competition in Artificial IntelligenceMidjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse- Art & Fun Stuff
- Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”
Artificial intelligence deepfake video of Harry Potter characters in faux-Balenciaga fashion show goes viral