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Dr. Ashley Beecy from NewYork-Presbyterian discussed the potential of multimodal LLMs for creating advanced virtual doctor assistants to improve proactive patient monitoring and care. Currently, generative AI is being used for administrative tasks, with goals of enhancing diagnostics and workflow within a year, while addressing risks through doctor oversight.

OpenAI addressed Elon Musk's lawsuit alleging it prioritized profits over public welfare in AI development. OpenAI's emails reveal Musk's support for less transparency in AI advancement, discussions about a for-profit model, and concerns over unsafe open-sourced AI, emphasizing a focus on safety and sustainable funding.

Salesforce launched Einstein 1 Studio at TrailblazerDX, enhancing its generative AI capabilities with tools like Copilot Builder, Prompt Builder, and Model Builder for personalized user experiences. Despite high expectations from IT professionals, many face challenges in AI implementation. The studio promotes flexibility and innovation in AI development.

OpenAI is responding to a lawsuit from co-founder Elon Musk, who claims the company has deviated from its nonprofit origins. OpenAI intends to dismiss his claims, supported by emails suggesting his prior acceptance of a for-profit model for funding AI development. The case raises issues about transparency and Musk's proposed collaboration with Tesla.

Accenture has partnered with AI innovator Cohere to enhance business language models and search capabilities, aiming for improved productivity across industries. Their collaboration focuses on customizable generative AI solutions while ensuring data privacy. As demand for scalable AI grows, they seek to transform business operations and the workforce in an AI-driven future.

Generative AI raises First Amendment concerns, with some legal experts arguing its outputs might be protected speech, including harmful content. Peter Salib advocates for regulation to mitigate potential risks, highlighting the need to distinguish AI outputs from human speech to ensure safety.

Haiper, a new AI video startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, secured $13.8 million in seed funding to enhance its video creation platform. Competing with OpenAI's Sora and others, it allows users to generate videos from text prompts and aims to develop AGI with advanced perceptual abilities, enhancing creativity and content quality.

The letter “Build AI for a Better Future” by Ron Conway and over 300 signatories, including major tech firms, lacks specificity and urgency, failing to address critical AI issues. Critics argue it resembles corporate marketing rather than a genuine call for accountability and progress in AI development.

Microsoft's Orca team announced Orca-Math, an innovative AI model designed to excel at math word problems. With only 7 billion parameters, it outperforms larger models like GPT-4 and MetaMath. The team created a dataset of 200,000 math problems, available for public use, to enhance learning tools.

Boston's Metaplane raised $13.8 million in Series A funding to enhance its AI-driven data observability platform, competing against established rivals. With a rapidly growing customer base, the company aims to improve data quality monitoring and plans future developments for tailored insights and automated solutions.

AMD has launched its Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs, targeting cost-sensitive edge applications. Part of its Xilinx acquisition, these chips offer high I/O counts, power efficiency (up to 30% lower consumption), and advanced security, enhancing usability across industries. Sampling kits will be available in early 2025.

Snowflake has partnered with AI startup Mistral to integrate its large language models into Snowflake's Data Cloud, enhancing AI capabilities for app development. This collaboration includes an undisclosed investment from Snowflake, aiming to provide customers with advanced LLMs and improved AI-driven resources through Snowflake Cortex.

Amazon has made a significant move by investing an additional $2.75 billion in the AI powerhouse Anthropic on Wednesday, following an earlier investment decision made last September. The initial investment of $1.25 billion appears to be yielding positive results for Amazon, or perhaps they have realized that they have limited options for backing other AI contenders.

A recent legal victory has been achieved by artists combating major AI image generator platforms, as a federal judge has allowed their copyright infringement claims to proceed. This ruling indicates that AI models like Stable Diffusion may infringe copyrights inherently through their operation. Cartoonist Sarah Andersen, illustrator Kelly McKernan, and concept artist Karla Ortiz have sued Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, alleging that their works were used without permission to train these generation models. The artists claim that this unauthorized use resulted in the reproduction of their original works in new AI-generated images.

Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot, now available for Android, assists with various tasks, including coding and email drafting. It can also generate images using GPT-4 and DALL-E 3. The app is free on Google Play, but iOS availability remains undisclosed. This expansion enhances access to Microsoft's AI tools.