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The AI-generated George Carlin comedy special by Dudesy is permanently removed following a lawsuit from Carlin's estate over publicity rights and copyright infringement. The estate's settlement prohibits future use of Carlin's likeness without approval, highlighting broader legal concerns surrounding AI and creative works.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is enhancing its Amazon Bedrock platform by adding the Mistral Large model for generative AI development, alongside previously included Mistral models. Vasi Philomin highlights the integration of advanced AI technologies in a secure environment. Mistral Large excels in multilingual tasks and has a 32K token context window. Accessible in U.S. and EU regions, AWS and Mistral aim to develop AI solutions using Amazon’s chips. Amazon Bedrock also launches in France, ensuring data security.

Cloudflare is enhancing its platform for developers by integrating AI applications from Hugging Face, making its serverless GPU-powered solution, Workers AI, widely available. This integration allows for easy deployment of AI models, supporting tasks like text generation and embeddings, while improving access and scalability globally.

Microsoft has enhanced its AI-powered Copilot for Microsoft 365, now utilizing GPT-4 Turbo for faster, comprehensive responses and offering unlimited chats. Emphasizing data protection, Microsoft aims to reassure users after security concerns. Copilot is available for $30/month, with future updates like increased image generation planned.

OctoAI has launched OctoStack, a platform enabling enterprises to deploy private generative AI models on their own or in a virtual private cloud. It offers optimized inference, model customization, and data control, catering to growing demand for private AI solutions. While competitors exist, OctoAI emphasizes its unique cross-technology optimizations.

Microsoft announced an expansion of its Priva platform, adding five automated tools to enhance enterprise data privacy and compliance. Aimed at transitioning organizations from reactive to proactive data management, these AI-powered tools help address privacy regulation challenges.

Read AI secured $21 million in Series A funding to enhance AI-driven meeting summaries and streamline workplace interactions. With new integrations across various platforms, the company aims to save knowledge workers significant time. Read AI emphasizes data privacy and plans to innovate with multimodal analyses while expanding its team and features.

Hailo, an Israeli startup, launched the Hailo-10, an energy-efficient generative AI accelerator for edge devices, allowing AI applications to run without cloud reliance. Backed by $120 million in funding, it targets sectors like automotive and computing, promising improved performance and lower energy consumption.

Reltio has launched the Reltio Customer 360 Data Product, enhancing its master data management platform with AI capabilities. It offers a holistic customer view, rapid entity resolution using Flexible Entity Resolution Networks, and user-friendly data interaction through the Reltio Intelligence Assistant. The product aims to streamline data access and insights across industries, with plans for future expansions.

Salesforce has launched Einstein Copilot for Tableau, a beta AI tool that helps users overcome the challenges of data analysis by providing guided recommendations and simplifying calculations. This conversational assistant enhances user engagement, making data exploration more intuitive and accessible.

OpenAI has launched a feature allowing users to access ChatGPT without an account, aiming to widen access and gather more training data. This update offers users a chance to explore GPT-3.5 easily while implementing stricter safeguards for non-logged-in individuals.

Apple has introduced ReALM, an AI system that enhances voice assistants' understanding of context and ambiguous references, improving interactions. This system uses large language models for better on-screen reference accuracy, surpassing GPT-4's performance. Despite its advancements, Apple faces stiff competition in the AI field and plans to unveil more AI features at its upcoming Developers Conference.

At Fal.Con 2024, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz emphasized the importance of a "resilience-by-design" approach following a July IT outage. He introduced core elements of resilience, highlighted cloud security plans, and announced flexible financing options. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stressed collaborative security innovations for the future.

Anthropic launched a public beta for prompt caching in its API, enhancing context retention and reducing costs for developers using Claude models. Cached prompts significantly lower token rates, with prices for Claude 3.5 Sonnet at $0.30/MTok. Early users report improved efficiency in various applications. The feature aims to compete with rivals like Google and OpenAI, addressing developer requests for cost-effective solutions.

Meta is enhancing its AI chatbot across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook by introducing celebrity voices such as Awkwafina and John Cena, initially for US users. Users can also choose standard voices. The chatbot can answer questions about uploaded images and execute image modifications.