AI News & Launches

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.

Linkz.ai provides live link previews to enhance user engagement, reduce bounce rates, and improve website performance. Installation is simple and quick, with just one line of code. The service includes rich previews for popular URLs and analytics with the premium plans.

Deepshot 2.0 is a cutting-edge software offering fully customizable dialogue generation and replacement, revolutionizing the way professional videos are produced. With features like multilingual translation, A/B content testing, and easy error correction, Deepshot streamlines video production for creators.

Advomate is an AI-powered platform that automates legal processes such as research generation, document review, and working with legislation and case law, helping legal professionals work more efficiently.

Experts debate the feasibility of replacing CEOs with AI, arguing that many of a CEO's tasks are data-driven and could be handled by AI. Phoebe Moore and Anant Agarwal contribute to the debate, with some CEOs already relying on AI like ChatGPT for decision-making. Despite the potential for bias and flaws, the trend towards AI leadership, exemplified by companies like Dictador, continues to grow.

At Computex 2024, AMD announced an accelerated pace for data center AI innovation with an expanded Instinct GPU roadmap. The AMD Instinct MI325X accelerator will be available in Q4 2024, featuring 288GB of HBM3E memory. Following in 2025, the MI350 series based on AMD CDNA 4 architecture is expected to bring a 35x generational increase in AI inference performance. Dr. Lisa Su highlighted the annual cadence of leadership AI performance and memory capabilities that each generation will deliver.

Neven Mrgan shares feelings of repulsion upon receiving an AI-written email from a friend. Mrgan, uninterested in AI for personal creativity, draws a line between helpful tools and AI takeovers. The AI email felt impersonal, like a form letter from a friend. Mrgan values human effort and presence, worrying about future indistinguishable AI communications from real ones.

A study titled 'Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance' critically examines the claim of GPT-4's 90th percentile score on the Uniform Bar Exam, revealing methodological shortcomings and suggesting overinflated estimates of its legal reasoning capabilities.

AI startup Hugging Face detected 'unauthorized access' to Spaces, their platform for AI model hosting. Suspected accessed secrets may have prompted token revocations, and users are advised to update their credentials. Investigations with cyber security experts and reports to law enforcement are underway.

A study by Arizona State University reveals a strong similarity between Scarlett Johansson's voice and OpenAI's 'Sky' voice assistant, causing a stir with Johansson's disapproval and raising questions about AI voice creation ethics.

Novy, a consultancy firm, collaborated with economist Emily Oster to develop Zelma, an AI-driven educational app designed to make U.S. state assessment data accessible. The project entailed overcoming data accuracy and query speed challenges, optimization using AI, and a robust stack including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres.

New York Tech Week offers a diverse set of events tailored for founders, investors, and tech enthusiasts. Highlights include networking dinners, pitch competitions, and insightful panels focused on AI and the Latinx tech community.

LearnerOn is an AI-powered smart learning platform geared towards satisfying individual and organizational learning needs. It integrates a catalog of over 500,000 learning resources with customizable learning paths, allowing talent leaders to focus on human-centric aspects of Learning & Development (L&D).

Vagabond is your go-to platform for effortless and immersive travel planning, offering a personalized journey with unforgettable itineraries suited to your preferences.

The article 'What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs' by Eugene Yan and colleagues compiles tactical, operational, and strategic insights gained from a year of building real-world applications with large language models (LLMs). It provides practical guidance on prompt engineering, evaluation, data consideration, workflow optimization, and team collaboration aimed at developing successful products around LLMs.

Artizyou offers cutting-edge, blockchain-backed copyright protection for artists and creators, ensuring their work is secured against theft and unauthorized use with vigilant digital monitoring and immediate legal action support.

Sony Pictures plans to adopt artificial intelligence in movie and show production as stated by CEO Tony Vinciquerra. Amidst negotiations with Hollywood's major crew union, AI utilization emerges as a focus point. Vinciquerra mentions AI's role in streamlining productions in a cost-effective manner. The move aligns with current trends in the entertainment industry, where AI tools, despite causing job concerns, are seen as potential enhancers of the filmmaking process.

Veggie AI offers a platform to create fully controllable videos using AI, without requiring AI knowledge. Users can input images, action videos, or text prompts, and Veggie AI's advanced technology generates high-quality videos in minutes.

LinkedCRM is a Chrome Extension designed to enhance LinkedIn sales activities using AI-driven tools. It streamarts workflows, provides insights for lead generation, and syncs with various CRMs to magnify sales productivity.

A Stanford study cautions the legal industry about AI-powered legal research tools that hallucinate false information. With AI tools reported to fabricate data in up to 17-34% of legal queries, the study vies for transparent, public evaluations and rigorous benchmarking. The researchers find that even retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, touted as a solution, are prone to errors, emphasizing the challenge of integrating AI responsibly in the law sector.

A Winnipeg man was scammed out of hundreds of dollars after AI confirmed a fake Facebook customer support number as legitimate. Dave Gaudreau, ex-Manitoba NDP legislator, mistakenly received phone support from scammers pretending to be from Facebook, which ended with unauthorized transactions on his account.

DocentPro is a mobile application that offers an extensive library of online courses, enabling users to learn at their own pace. With interactive materials and expert instruction, the app caters to learners seeking to advance their knowledge in a variety of subjects.

Google scales back AI-generated search overviews after high-profile errors, such as advising users to eat glue or misinforming about Obama's religion, caused concern. The cutback follows a two-week full-scale U.S. launch that led to more direct user interaction but also revealed unanticipated scenarios.

Oh A Potato is a Chat GPT-powered iOS app designed for meal planning. It lets users save recipes from various sources, plan weekly meals using ingredients at hand, and compile focused grocery lists to streamline shopping and reduce food waste.

Eve Coach is an innovative AI-powered stress management tool designed to support individuals through stressful situations at work. It offers personalized guidance and an action plan to tackle work-related stress effectively.

Jeff Johnson collaborates with experts on a project to run multi-camera machine vision applications using Zynq UltraScale+ and Hailo-8 AI accelerator. See live demo at Embedded World 2024. Detailed instructions on usage and setup provided.

Google discussed recent feedback and considerations regarding the roll-out of AI Overviews in Search, which improve user satisfaction by answering complex queries more effectively. Despite a high accuracy rate, oddities and errors have occurred, particularly with nonsensical, satirical queries or due to data voids. Google has made over a dozen improvements to AI Overviews, including better detection for nonsensical queries and restrictions on satire, unreliable content, and specific query types.