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Music Industry Sues AI Startups: Sony, UMG, and Warner Music sue Suno and Udio over alleged copyright violations

A smoldering conflict between the music industry and AI companies exploded when major recording companies sued up-and-coming AI music makers.

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Challenging Human-Level Models: Hugging Face overhauls open LLM leaderboard with tougher benchmarks

An influential ranking of open models revamped its criteria, as large language models approach human-level performance on popular tests.

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OpenAI Blocks China and Elsewhere: OpenAI to halt services in China and other U.S. 'nations of concern' by next week

OpenAI will stop serving users in China and other nations of concern to the U.S. government as soon as next week.

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AI is a Tool, Not a Separate Species: Should AI developers be allowed to train models freely on the contents of the web? The lawsuit by Sony, Universal, and Warner against AI music generators Suno and Udio raises difficult questions.

On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. Their lawsuit echoes The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI in December.

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Conversing With the Departed: Lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones, a new market in video generation

Advances in video generation have spawned a market for lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones.

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Chatbot for Minority Languages: Startup Two AI launches SUTRA, a multilingual model for South Asian markets

An AI startup that aims to crack markets in southern Asia launched a multilingual competitor to GPT-4.

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U.S. to Probe AI Monopoly Concerns: U.S. antitrust regulators to investigate AI giants Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI

U.S. antitrust regulators are preparing to investigate a trio of AI giants.

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From Clip to Composition: Udio expands text-to-music generator, now extends existing recordings

Is your song’s verse in need of a chorus? A popular text-to-music generator can extend existing recordings while maintaining their musical character.

Safety, Evaluations and Alignment Lab (SEAL) Leaderboards.

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Private Benchmarks for Fairer Tests: Scale AI launches SEAL leaderboards to benchmark model performance

Scale AI offers new leaderboards based on its own benchmarks.

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Seoul AI Summit Spurs Safety Agreements: AI summit in Seoul achieves safety commitments from companies and governments

At meetings in Seoul, government and corporate officials from dozens of countries agreed to take action on AI safety.

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Audio Generation Clear of Copyrights: Stability AI releases enhanced text-to-audio generator Stable Audio Open

Sonically minded developers gained a high-profile text-to-audio generator.

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Apple’s Gen AI Strategy Revealed: Apple unveils AI features in new iOS and MacOS update during WWDC

Apple presented its plan to imbue its phones and computers with artificial intelligence.