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| Here are today's top AI stories: - Google rebrands Bard as Gemini, launches paid subscription service.
- FCC bans AI-generated voices in scam robocalls.
- Top companies join U.S. consortium for safe, responsible AI.
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| 1 | | Google has renamed its Bard AI chatbot to Gemini. The company is launching a premium subscription service, Gemini Advanced, priced at $20 per month, competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft's Copilot Pro. More: - Google is renaming Bard after the new Gemini AI models powering its latest update.
- The paid version, Gemini Advanced, includes 2TB of cloud storage and features the more advanced Ultra 1.0 AI model.
- Subscribers under the Google One AI Premium plan also get chatbot access in Gmail and Google's productivity tools.
- Gemini is also available free on the web at gemini.google.com.
Zoom out: - Gemini has also launched as an independent app for Android, allowing users to replace Google Assistant with Gemini for voice commands.
- On iOS, Gemini is integrated into the Google app.
- Despite the popularity of AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, a survey revealed that less than 60% of people have used or are aware of the technologies, including Google's Bard/Gemini.
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| 2 | | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted to ban the use of AI-generated voices in scam robocalls. The decision follows a deceptive AI-generated robocall that impersonated President Joe Biden last month, dissuading Democrats from voting in New Hampshire's primary election. More: - Under the new regulation, AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls are immediately banned, aligning with the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
- Any outbound caller wishing to use AI technology must first secure consent from the recipients.
- The act already restricts marketing calls that employ artificial and prerecorded voices. The FCC clarified that AI-generated voices fall within the definition of "artificial" under the law.
What it does: - The new rule allows the FCC to fine companies using AI voices in calls and block their service providers.
- It also allows recipients of the calls to sue and gives states a new tool to target violators.
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| 3 | | Leading tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple, are among 200+ entities to join a new U.S. consortium for safe and responsible generative AI. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo today announced the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, which will work with NIST to carry out actions from President Biden's recent executive order on AI. More: - The consortium will be tasked with creating guidelines for "red-teaming, capability evaluations, risk management, safety and security, and watermarking synthetic content."
- According to Commerce, the consortium is the largest group of test and evaluation teams, with plans to establish a "new measurement science in AI safety."
- Besides those mentioned above, other members include OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, Intel, Cisco Systems, IBM, Northop Grumman, Qualcomm, and many others.
Zoom out: - In October, Biden signed the executive order that places certain guardrails around the development and use of AI technologies.
- Under the order, any company creating an AI model with possible national security risks must report it to the government and give information on the testing and security measures taken.
- In-use models like GPT-4 are also still subject to other parts of the order, including equity, non-discrimination, consumer protection, and worker-related provisions. A full list of the actions is available here.
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| 4 | | Shares of British chip designer Arm soared nearly 50% on Thursday, driven by strong demand forecasts for its AI chip design technology. Arm's Wednesday earnings report showed a better-than-expected outlook amid rising AI adoption. 
What happened: Arm, known for designing circuits in most smartphones and many PCs, is now focusing on chip designs for data centers that support AI workloads. Executives reported on Wednesday that customers are choosing Arm-based central processors that work alongside Nvidia chips for AI tasks in data centers. "The most demanding AI applications are already running on Arm today," the company wrote in its shareholder letter. What the numbers show: SoftBank-backed Arm reported record sales of $824M in the last quarter, exceeding Wall Street expectations, and forecasts up to $900M for the current quarter, eclipsing analysts' projections of $778M. Quotable: Arm CEO Rene Haas mentioned AI 17 times in the company's earnings call on Wednesday. He told Bloomberg Television that AI is not a hype cycle but "the most profound opportunity in our lifetimes, and we're only at the beginning." | | | |
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| 5 | | Brilliant Labs, founded by a former Apple executive, unveiled lightweight AR glasses with a built-in multimodal AI assistant. The Frame AI glasses integrate several technologies: OpenAI's GPT-4; Stability AI's image generator, Stable Diffusion; Perplexity AI's conversational search engine; and speech recognition system Whisper. More: - Frame's AI assistant, called Noa, supports voice commands, visual processing, image generation, real-time speech recognition, and translation.
- Users can prompt Noa with real-world inputs such as sight, sound, and location at any moment.
- Noa, which has a micro OLED display and front-facing camera, can project answers in text onto the lenses and display photos and videos.
- The $349 glasses, which require a phone host, are available for order today and will ship in April.
Zoom out: - Singapore-based Brilliant Labs, led by former Apple program lead Bobak Tavangar, has raised $6M in funding to date.
- Investors include John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon GO creator Niantic; Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe; Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer; and others.
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| 6 | | 🍋 FRESH FUNDING 🍋 - AI-powered audit automation platform DataSnipper entered the unicorn club with a $100M Series B funding round led by Index Ventures.
- Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI's Startup Fund co-led a $70M Series B funding round into healthcare startup Ambience Healthcare, which is building generative AI tools for clinicans' workloads.
- Daedalus, a German startup building AI-powered precision manufacturing facilities, raised $21M in Series A funding. Nokia-funded NGP Capital led the round, supported by existing investors Khosla Ventures and Addition.
- 468 Capital and the Green Generation Fund co-led a $16M seed round into AI startup Jua, which is building a large physics model for the natural world.
- AI-powered arrhythmia analysis technology company Vektor Medical raised $16M in a Series A funding round co-led by Solas BioVentures and TVM Capital Life Sciences.
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- The White House plans to "cryptographically verify" all of its official communications to make sure that the public knows they are genuine and not manipulated by AI, according to President Biden's special adviser for AI, Ben Buchanan.
- A New Jersey high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against a classmate accused of creating explicit deepfakes of her using an AI app.
- The true number of job cuts due to AI is difficult to gauge, with over 4,600 reported in the U.S. since last May — a figure that is likely underestimated, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. She has written for notable publications like USA Today and the Arizona Business Gazette. During her time as a public policy reporter at The Arizona Republic, she received recognition with a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for her collaborative reporting on pension cost increases. Beth also authored a book on the solar photovoltaic industry in 2016. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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