Machine Learning Research
AI’s Criminal Underground Revealed: Researchers uncover black market for AI-driven cybercrime services
Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.
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Tech & Society
German Court Says LAION Didn’t Violate Copyrights: LAION wins copyright case in Germany
A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.
Machine Learning Research
Voice-to-Voice and More for GPT-4o API: OpenAI unveils tools for speech, vision, and cost-efficiency at DevDay
OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.
Machine Learning Research
Familiar Faces, Synthetic Soundtracks: Meta debuts Movie Gen for text-to-video generation with consistent characters
Meta upped the ante for text-to-video generation with new systems that produce consistent characters and matching soundtracks.
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Nobel Prizes for AI!: Nobel committees for physics and chemistry honored AI researchers. How can the AI community itself can celebrate the next generation of innovators?
Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!
The Batch Newsletter
How Meta’s Movie Gen Does It, AI’s Criminal Underground, Court Says LAION is Legal, OpenAI’s New Voice API
The Batch AI News and Insights: Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!
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Apple’s new models punch above their weight: Liquid explores a new multimodal modal architecture
Copilot may lead to more bugs than productivity gains. OpenAI prunes its Whisper model for faster completions. A new study measures top AI companies’ redteaming efforts. An open-source CLI coding assistant, o1-engineer.
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Emu3 claims “next-token prediction is all you need”: Black Forest updates FLUX image model, adds a developer API
OpenAI introduces new canvas UI for editing with ChatGPT. Google’s chip design model gets a new (but familiar) name. Microsoft launches some of the features it promised with Recall. Aider wants to give the right models the right jobs.
Letters
A Victory for Innovation and Open Source: California’s governor vetoed SB 1047, which would have hurt innovation without making anyone safer. Now let’s work on mitigating AI’s real risks and realizing its potential benefits.
We won! California’s anti-innovation bill SB 1047 was vetoed by Governor Newsom over the weekend.
The Batch Newsletter
Llama Goes Multimodal, Pros Embrace Generative Video, Military AI Guidelines, LLMs That Read Spreadsheets
The Batch AI News and Insights: We won! California’s anti-innovation bill SB 1047 was vetoed by Governor Newsom over the weekend.
Machine Learning Research
Enabling LLMs to Read Spreadsheets: A method to process large spreadsheets for accurate question answering
Large language models can process small spreadsheets, but very large spreadsheets often exceed their limits for input length. Researchers devised a method that processes large spreadsheets so LLMs can answer questions about them.
Tech & Society
International Guidelines for Military AI: Global coalition endorses blueprint for AI’s military use
Dozens of countries endorsed a “blueprint for action” designed to guide the use of artificial intelligence in military applications.