AI News & Launches

Microsoft has revised their usage terms for Azure OpenAI Service to ban U.S. police departments from utilizing their generative AI technologies, which includes language models like GPT-4. The decision comes amidst concerns over potential biases and inaccuracies, and follows the announcement of Axon's new product leveraging AI to summarize police bodycam audio. While global law enforcement agencies are now prohibited from real-time facial recognition via Azure OpenAI Service, questions remain about the specifics of these restrictions and existing law enforcement contracts.

Researchers demonstrate a methodology using non-expert crowdsourcing to obtain high-quality surgical tissue annotations for training AI models in real-time colorectal surgery assistance. This approach saved hundreds of expert hours and produced a model, Bowel.CSS, accurate in segmenting surgical tissues.

Nurses have protested the introduction of AI systems in hospitals, arguing that the lack of empathy and human touch in AI could be detrimental to patient care. They stress that AI cannot replace the expertise and experience nurses bring to healthcare. Amidst attempts to automate to cut costs, there are concerns over rushed AI implementations causing problems and potentially dangerous outcomes.

OpenAI, known for ChatGPT, is reportedly working on a web search product, leveraging Microsoft Bing's technology. Despite skepticism, this development suggests a potential new player in the search engine market, challenging Google's dominance.

AI Bot is a platform at aibot.how that enables users to create AI Assistant ChatBots using models such as OpenAI, Claude & Azure. It offers no-code integration, instant connections to databases, and shipping as an API or Chatbot with HTML embed widgets. Users can start quickly with templates for various applications like city advisor, document retrieval, databases, quizzes, and more.

GeoSpy AI is a company specializing in geospatial intelligence that offers advanced location tracking and data analytics solutions. Their technology enables various industries to optimize operations through sophisticated GIS services.

Typewise is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer (f/m/x) with a salary range of €75K - €120K EUR and equity between 0.10% - 0.20%. The position can be filled remotely and requires 6+ years of experience. Typewise, part of Y Combinator S22, specializes in AI-driven text prediction software, increasing productivity for customer service and sales. The engineering role involves working with TypeScript, Node.js, and React to develop a browser extension and web-based admin portal.

Dashworks is an AI-powered knowledge assistant that centralizes organizational knowledge for accurate, AI-generated answers accessible across apps. It offers precise AI answers, comprehensive integrations, and is designed with privacy and security in mind.

The online platform 'Generic Anything' allows users to create resumes and cover letters tailored to specific job descriptions in seconds. It simplifies the application process.

Mockey.ai is an AI-powered online platform providing a wide range of mockup templates for various items such as apparel, tech gadgets, and home accessories. It features a user-friendly interface to easily upload designs and create professional-looking mockups without the need for complex software.

Monterey AI is a user feedback aggregation platform that utilizes AI to analyze user feedback, tickets, conversations, surveys, and transcripts at scale. Developed by AI and data leads from companies like Uber and MIT, it captures customer insights across various communication channels, helping businesses decipher customer satisfaction and pain points quickly and accurately.

WaxWing AI offers an innovative AI-driven platform designed for marketers and growth hackers to streamline their marketing strategies. With a focus on role-based KPI alignment, market insights, and intelligent content creation using MarketingGPT, Waxwing AI provides adaptive planning and advanced intelligence to help businesses achieve their marketing goals efficiently.

Playbook is a collaborative creative space celebrating 900K artists and designers. It features the integration of GPT for efficient searches within creative teams. Playbook promises to streamline project management, file sharing, and asset utilization, empowering freelancers and design teams.

QueryPal offers an AI-driven chatbot aimed at resolving repetitive workplace questions quickly by utilizing existing company documents. It is compatible with Slack and Teams, providing instant answers with secure and customizable permissions. QueryPal emphasizes SOC2 compliance for security and offers easy setup with numerous integrations.

1Flow is a user survey software designed for SaaS and mobile apps, aimed at understanding user preferences and improving customer engagement and retention. It provides AI-powered survey creation, targeting based on user behavior, and comprehensive integration options.

FileKitty is a public GitHub project providing a GUI for selecting and concatenating text files. It's designed for easy file combination for use in single file formats or as context for prompts in language learning models (LLMs). The repo has a MIT license, features a simple build process, and is written in Python.

Transformative Action Process is a comprehensive course designed to guide job seekers through finding their ideal career in Germany. Created by a psychologist and a recruiting enthusiast, the program provides individuals with the tools to self-assess, identify career paths, create standout applications, ace interviews, and secure job offers. With success stories like Anna, who landed 4 job offers after 30 applications and 14 interviews, and a 14-day money-back guarantee, the course is geared towards (inter)national job seekers, white-collar professionals, and those looking to master their field.

Google has urged the US to revise its immigration policies to attract more AI talent. They have sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting that the Schedule A list, which has not been updated in 20 years, include AI and cybersecurity roles to meet growing demand. Google emphasizes that modernizing this policy will help the US remain competitive in the global AI space.

ListenUp AI offers a Chrome extensions that simplifies how product teams record video calls and meetings with users. It records directly from the source, ensuring compatibility with headphones and clear audio, and it transcribes sessions into 32 languages.

Noodle4 is an AI-powered platform designed to streamline the review of user-generated and influencer content at scale, helping brands ensure compliance with briefs, guidelines, and product classification while offering collaboration tools for a more efficient process.

Rankify is an AI-powered SEO keyword research tool tailored for SEO agencies, freelancers, and teams. It uses semantic analysis to find relevant keywords and blog topics, and offers features like search volume visualization, keyword difficulty, management of keyword lists, and bulk export options.

Journable is an innovative health and fitness app that simplifies diet and exercise tracking through AI-powered conversations. It offers personalized goal setting, instant meal and exercise analysis, and the ability to track a wide variety of foods, making it convenient and user-friendly.

Loom AI is a revolutionary tool that enhances video communication by automatically generating titles, summaries, and chapters for videos created with their platform. It offers filler word and silence removal to ensure clear messages, and it can transform videos into documents, aiding in tasks such as bug reporting and documentation. The AI features support 50+ languages and provide significant enhancements to workflows, as appreciated by numerous customers.

Mindtrip is a personalized AI-powered travel platform that curates experiences based on user preferences, provides interactive itineraries, and organizes transportation, accommodations, and activities all in one place. Features include photos, maps, reviews, tailored recommendations, and the ability to share trip plans.

QRev is an open-source AI platform that acts as a modern take on Salesforce, providing AI agents to infinitely scale a sales organization. With a motto of enabling salespeople to focus on closing deals rather than mundane tasks, QRev offers features such as prospect research, outreach scaling, and email reply automation.

The paper entitled 'Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Diverse Models' discusses the difficulty in evaluating the quality of Large Language Models (LLMs) owing to advanced capabilities outpacing existing evaluation methods. The paper proposes the use of a Panel of LLm evaluators (PoLL) consisting of smaller models rather than a single large model to mitigate cost, reduce intramodel bias, and improve performance.

Tyler Cowen discusses the potential implications of California's SB 1047, a bill aimed at regulating AI. The bill demands developers guarantee their AI models won't demonstrate 'hazardous capability' and could hinder open-source AI progress.

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ListenUp.ai offers a Chrome extension designed for product teams to easily record video calls with users and compile better insights for product development. It supports multiple platforms and features AI-powered transcription in 32 languages.

Otterly.AI is a tool that helps businesses monitor and optimize their brand and content visibility in AI-powered searches, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini/SGE, and Microsoft Bing Copilot. It's like SEMrush or Ahrefs for language learning models, focusing on monitoring prompts instead of keywords, preparing brands for the future of conversational search interfaces.

Outerbase is an AI-powered database platform designed for viewing, querying, visualizing, and editing data. It offers an AI data analyst named EZQL™, a table editor like a spreadsheet, customizable plugins, and themes. It integrates with databases like Postgres, MySQL, and more.

Geoffrey Litt's blog post discusses the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 on end-user programming, envisioning a future where users without formal programming background can still develop and modify software. The post introduces the concept of malleable software aided by LLMs, which could lead to changes in software use and creation, facilitating tasks such as data analysis, GUI creation, and software augmentation.

The gpt2-chatbot on lmsys.org exhibits attributes indicative of a more advanced model, likely beyond GPT-4 capabilities, potentially GPT-4.5 or GPT-5. A growing consensus within the LLM prompt and chat-bot community points to its outputs' superior quality. The model is branded 'gpt2-chatbot' but behaves similarly to OpenAI's designs, prompting speculation that this is a covert test by OpenAI. Usage is subject to rate limits, with an 8-messages daily user cap. Researchers are encouraged to explore and assess the model's capabilities with skepticism.

GitHub introduced Copilot Workspace at the GitHub Universe conference. This development environment uses 'Copilot-powered agents' to assist with planning, writing, testing, and running code through natural language. GitHub aims to simplify developer tasks with AI, despite financial losses and competition. The tool, based on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, will enter technical preview and is not yet under GitHub’s IP indemnification policy.

Issue #79 on Pulumi AI's GitHub page reflects concerns about AI-generated answers poisoning Google search results, misleading content, and the proactive measures taken.

Jeremy Howard, CEO of Answer.AI, criticizes the proposed bill SB-1047 for its potential negative impact on open-source AI development, suggesting that it could decrease AI safety by reducing transparency, collaboration, diversity, and resilience. He highlights concerns including overly broad definitions, burdensome requirements for developers, and barriers to entry which may deter innovation and drive talent out of California.

Unify is a startup looking to revolutionize the Large Language Model (LLM) landscape by offering a neural router that selects the best LLM for each prompt. They are offering remote internship roles for LLM Engineers which includes several benefits such as mentorship, certificates, and financial incentives.

EdrawMax AI Diagram Generator provides an online platform to create various diagrams using AI, offering various features like intelligent symbol libraries, multi-format compatibility, rich templates, and seamless device utilization.

ProfessorAI provides AI-based study tools for advanced courses, allowing users to ask complex questions and get answers involving equations, diagrams, graphs or images. They offer AI grading for exams formats like LEQs, DBQs, SAQs, MCQs, FRQs, and support for full advanced course learning curriculums with various study resources.

Stable Video offers a generative AI video model capable of transforming images or text into videos. It features an advanced AI model for dynamic visual narratives, multiple format support, and a user-friendly interface. Subscription plans are flexible to suit varied requirements.