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After Apple discontinued its Music Memos app, which was popular among musicians for sketching song ideas, a startup named Tape It has emerged to fill this gap. Tape It has developed a unique app that utilizes AI to automatically detect instruments and annotate recordings. This week, the startup took a significant step forward by launching a free web app featuring an AI-powered noise reduction algorithm that promises studio-quality results for any audio, not just speech.

This week’s AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas unfolded in an unexpectedly low-key manner. While the event typically generates a wealth of news, this year's most prominent announcements centered around artificial intelligence (AI). Notably, Amazon appears to be in a challenging position, lagging behind Microsoft in the AI race.

Samsung Medison to Acquire AI Startup Sonio for $92.7 Million

Google Assistant, as we once knew it, is undergoing a significant transformation—at least in terms of its core functionality.

The U.K. Internet regulator has unveiled draft guidelines detailing how adult websites must comply with new legal requirements to prevent children from accessing explicit content. The much-anticipated British age checks for porn sites are finally on the horizon. The goal is to ensure adult content is securely shielded behind age gates aimed at safeguarding children, greeting U.K. users on porn site landing pages in the near future.

Developers often find themselves bogged down by mundane tasks, spending far less time actually coding. According to Stack Overflow’s 2022 developer survey, a staggering 63% of developers reported dedicating over 30 minutes daily to search for solutions to problems. This translates to an estimated loss of 333 to 651 hours per week for a team of 50 developers. Additionally, a survey conducted by Propeller Insights and Rollbar revealed that more than a third of developers spend around 25% of their time fixing bugs, with 26% allocating up to half their time on this task.

Google Maps is set to unveil an exciting generative AI feature designed to enhance your exploration of new locations, as announced by the company today.

EU Unveils Draft Election Security Guidelines for Major Tech Platforms

OpenAI, the leading AI startup, announced on Wednesday its intention to reject all claims made by Elon Musk in a recent lawsuit. The company implied that Musk, despite being a co-founder, had minimal influence on its journey and achievements.

If you ask Gemini, Google’s leading GenAI model, to generate misleading content about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it can do so with the right prompt. Inquire about a future Super Bowl game, and it will create an invented play-by-play. If you ask about the Titan submersible implosion, it can produce disinformation, complete with convincingly fabricated citations.

Amazon introduced generative AI-powered features last year to help sellers swiftly create product listings with just a few words. The company is now enhancing this process, making it easier for sellers to create listings for items already available on their platform.

CommentSold, the innovative e-commerce technology startup known for its web and video tools, introduced a cutting-edge generative AI tool on Wednesday. This feature is designed to analyze livestream footage and create concise product explainer videos that sellers can easily share across their websites, mobile apps, and social media channels.

Kolena, a promising startup focused on developing tools for testing, benchmarking, and validating the performance of AI models, has successfully secured $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital, with participation from SignalFire and Bloomberg Beta. This latest round brings Kolena’s total funding to $21 million. The new capital will be used to expand the company’s research team, collaborate with regulatory bodies, and enhance its sales and marketing initiatives, as co-founder and CEO Mohamed Elgendy shared in an email interview.

OpenAI has paused the "Sky" voice feature for ChatGPT due to concerns it resembles Scarlett Johansson’s character from "Her." While the Sky voice is under review, users can choose from four other options. OpenAI insists the voice was not an imitation, but a different actress's work.

OpenAI will not launch a search engine at its event on May 13, as confirmed by CEO Sam Altman. Instead, updates for ChatGPT and GPT-4 will be showcased. Speculation centers on advancements in “agentic AI.” Stay tuned for live coverage of the event.