AI News & Launches

Microsoft caught state-backed hackers using its AI tools for cyberattacks, raising concerns about online privacy and the shifting baseline of what's considered acceptable surveillance by cloud service providers. The trend parallels overfishing in oceans, where generative AI tools track users to improve services and sell ads.

The article presents a compelling argument for the plausibility of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2027, based on the rapid progression from GPT-2 to GPT-4, discussing trends in compute, algorithmic efficiencies, and 'unhobbling' gains that could lead to another significant leap in AI capabilities.

Writer AI Studio is an AI development platform, providing AI apps and workflows integration, utilizing Developer Tools, Graph-Based RAG Technology, and AI Guardrails for creating, governing, and analyzing generated content. It ensures data privacy and enables app customization.

Stable Audio Open has been introduced as an open source model for generating brief audio samples and sound effects. Designed for creatives in music and sound design, it allows generation of up to 47 seconds of audio from text prompts, including drum beats, ambient sounds, and more.

This paper, titled 'To Believe or Not to Believe Your LLM', delves into uncertainty quantification in large language models (LLMs). It aims to detect unreliability in model outputs by focusing on epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties.

xLSTM is a new RNN architecture that aims to improve upon the original LSTM by incorporating Exponential Gating, normalization, stabilization techniques, and a new Matrix Memory. It demonstrates enhanced performance on Language Modeling tasks compared to Transformers or State Space Models.

Microsoft has developed an AI model named Aurora that can accurately predict both weather and air pollution globally in under a minute. The breakthrough AI requires significantly less computational power and can predict levels of six major air pollutants over five days.

Enchanted Pages is an innovative platform utilizing artificial intelligence to provide personalized reading experiences. Offering a vast digital library, the site caters to avid readers of fantasy genres, ensuring access to a world of magic and adventure at their fingertips.

WriteText.ai is a leading AI-powered product description generator that seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce, Magento, and Shopify. Offering unique features like keyword analysis, semantic suggestions, multilingual support, and a Chrome extension, it streamlines the content creation workflow for e-commerce platforms. Additionally, WriteText.ai provides a no-download trial and a savings calculator to demonstrate time and cost efficiency.

Second.dev is an AI-powered platform for enterprise codebase maintenance, offering automated migrations and codebase intelligence. It helps engineering teams crush their backlogs by automating routine tasks and allowing them to focus on innovation.

OrgaNice is an AI-powered HR platform designed for Slack-first teams, offering features like an org chart, birthday & anniversary celebrations, time off tracking, and engagement surveys to foster a connected and organized company culture.

Exante offers an AI-Powered Contract Repository aiming to provide enhanced visibility, streamline contract management, and deliver actionable insights for businesses. Designed with user-friendliness in mind, it offers automated data extraction, a centralized contract dashboard, and a personal AI assistant for contract-related queries.

Formshare transforms the way you create forms by providing a platform to build free, conversational AI forms without coding. It offers an intuitive, natural language-based form creation experience with unlimited forms and responses.

Fliki is an AI-powered tool that turns text into videos with AI voices. It provides a simple editor, fast creation, cost-effective solutions, and requires no technical skills.

This article on OpenCV.ai discusses the importance of camera calibration in computer vision, detailing how cameras capture the world and the need to correct lens distortions to extract meaningful insights. Techniques for calibrating cameras are outlined, including the use of a calibration template and addressing complex scenarios like high-mounted cameras or those in inaccessible locations.

USC researchers developed an AI system that identifies epilepsy by analyzing brain interactions, enhancing the diagnosis of rare seizure types. Presenting at the PAKDD conference, the system showed a 12% improvement over existing models, leveraging spatial relationships and less data for analysis.

Microsoft's new AI tool, Windows Recall, is designed to take screenshots every five seconds to enable a natural language search of users' activities on their PCs. However, security experts warn that the tool's unencrypted database makes it vulnerable to abuse. Ethical hacker Alex Hagenah demonstrated that with his tool TotalRecall, one can extract all data recorded by Windows Recall, raising significant privacy concerns.

Canadian AI startup Cohere raised $450 million, backed by Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, aiming for a $5 billion valuation. The previous valuation was $2.2 billion, and they reported $35 million in annualized revenue by March end. Cohere competes with AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

AI weather forecasting is significantly advancing as it may revolutionize predictions during the impending historic hurricane season. Utilizing extensive data sets like the publicly available ERA5, AI models provide superior outputs to traditional methods, some already surpassing decades-old global weather models without needing powerful supercomputers.

Shortbread, presented by Kurukuru Inc., offers bite-sized comics perfect for indulging in the most tantalizing, binge-worthy stories on the go. Available for mobile devices, Shortbread serves up a diverse array of comics anytime and anywhere, easily accessible through both iOS and Android platforms.

Scott Arciszewski's blog post discusses the often undefined threat model for Encryption At Rest, focusing on web and cloud applications. He highlights the importance of clearly understanding the risks and the limitations of full disk encryption, which does not protect against an online attacker accessing application or database software. The post emphasizes the need for client-side encryption and proper key management, as well as the dangers of 'confused deputy' attacks, which can be mitigated by context-binding mechanisms.

A security researcher found Microsoft's newly introduced AI feature, Windows Recall, on Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs, to be insecure. The data collected by Recall is stored locally and is unencrypted when a user is logged in. Although encrypted when logged out, the data is vulnerable to malware attacks when the user is active, raising security concerns.

StatuteMatcher.org is an AI-powered platform providing real-time legal resources tailored for domestic violence survivors. It offers seamless statute matching to aid legal advocacy and is free, bilingual, and maintains anonymity. Not a substitute for professional legal advice.

apna AI is India's premier multilingual generative AI app that aims to bring the AI revolution to India. It is supported by Invenics, offering tools to embrace AI technologies.

ChatGPT service faced an outage, and OpenAI has identified and is mitigating the issue. Users were first notified of the problem as the team began investigating, followed by an identification and ongoing fix updates.

MailMaestro is an AI email assistant compatible with Outlook and Gmail designed to help users write better emails faster, offering a 2-week free trial without the need for a credit card. Trusted by professionals, it provides a range of features for quick, high-quality, and personalized email composition with enterprise-grade security.

Clixie AI offers an interactive video platform that transforms traditional video and audio content into engaging interactive experiences with quizzes, chapters, bookmarks, and more. Its no-code solution caters to corporate training, sales, education, and continuing education, fostering deeper student involvement and providing insightful data analytics for learning improvements.

DevRev offers a customer support and product experience platform powered by AI, providing self-service support and personalized search capabilities for websites and apps.

Time tracking standups - Jira Timesheets & Resource Planner by Standuply, Inc. is designed for Jira Cloud with an aim to automate time tracking, enhance workflow integration, and improve project deadline management. It offers AI-driven features for dynamic resource planning and task management within Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Underlord by Descript is an AI-powered editing assistant positioned within Descript, providing a variety of tools for video and podcast editing, transcription, and creative content generation. It simplifies audio and video editing processes and enhances content with features like AI voices and automatic retake removal.

Roundtable AI offers an easy-to-integrate API solution for cleaning survey data. It saves manual work by auto-flagging suspicious responses, supports real-time behavioral tracking, and has multilingual functionality. The platform is trusted by industry leaders and designed for speed and scalability, with over 5 million open-ends analyzed.

Roast My Design offers a free AI-powered design audit service where users can upload their design images and receive an AI-generated critique. This platform allows designers to get quick feedback on their work.

Circled is a platform designed to facilitate community engagement and management, offering tools for content organization, member collaboration, and subscription-based monetization.

OAM AI is a virtual concierge service designed to manage guest inquiries and property operations for AirBNB hosts and hoteliers. Offering seamless check-in and check-out, a reference library, instant recommendations, multi-lingual support, and a central mission control dashboard, OAM aims to reduce the workload on property managers for just $5 a month.

Kroolo is an AI-powered productivity platform designed to optimize team performance and efficiency. It offers over 80 features, including project management tools, document generation and summarization with AI, task assignment and management, and integration with 20+ apps, all with a workspace tailored to various needs. The platform facilitates agile project coordination, goal setting with OKR, chat functions, and team collaborations without requiring a credit card for its free tier.

Windows 11’s new AI-powered Recall feature, set to launch on June 18th, is criticized for potential security flaws. It takes snapshots of everything users do, stores data in plain text, and may allow malware to scrape data, warned cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont.

The article by Narayanan and Kapoor warns against over-reliance on AI in scientific research due to issues with hype and flawed methodology leading to non-reproducible results. They discuss the prevalence of data leakage and other errors, highlighting the need for better practices and scrutiny in using AI as a tool, rather than an oracle.

SnapMagic is seeking a Technical Project Manager for their San Mateo, CA office offering $130K-$180K/year. The role includes leadership in software project sprints, communications with stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement. Candidates should have 5+ years of project management experience.

Trellis, an AI-powered platform akin to Snowflake for unstructured data, is seeking a Founding Engineer with 3+ years experience and expertise in backend development and ML infrastructure. Offering a salary range of $110K to $225K with equity options, the role seeks individuals with skills in languages like Python or Go, and familiar with ML/NLP libraries. The position is based in San Francisco, CA.

Tri Dao's recent blog post introduces Mamba-2, enhancing the earlier State Space Model (SSM) with a Structured State Space Duality (SSD) approach for efficiently processing sequences in deep neural networks. Key advancements include linear computation in SSM mode and efficient matrix multiplication in SSD mode, which enables larger state dimensions and faster training. Mamba-2's dual mode algorithm combines both approaches during training for high efficiency.