🔝 Musk's XAI Targets $6B to Rival OpenAI for Top Bot

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X is blocking searches for those AI-generated explicit Taylor Swift images (about time, right?). ElevenLabs banned the user that deepfaked Joe Biden’s voice in an attempt to disrupt the elections, and Sunglass Hut is under fire after its facial recognition tech landed an innocent man in jail (AI fail 101 🔒🤦‍♀️). Shifting gears, Elon Musk's XAI is eyeing a $6 billion raise to take on OpenAI (because why not?). Meanwhile, OpenAI unofficially launched a new feature ‘GPT Mentions’. Etsy's rolling out AI 'Gift Mode' to make shopping a breeze. Whispers say iOS 18 will be one of the biggest updates in iPhone’s history. AND for the finale, Google’s AI Android update is set to read and analyze your private messages, going back to well…forever. 

The U.S. is escalating its chip war with China demanding cloud firms to reveal their foreign clients’ names. China, not to back down, is charging ahead approving over 40 AI models for public use in just 6 months. Over in smartphone land, Samsung's Galaxy S24 launch in China is giving Google’s Gemini the cold shoulder for Baidu's AI 'Ernie'. Over in Italy, the city of Trento gets fined €54K for misusing AI – oops! Ex-Google Chief pushing to deploy AI kamikaze drones in Ukraine, and Krutrim, founded by Bhavish Aggarwa, becomes India’s first AI unicorn.

Tachyum is claiming its CPU can rival dozens of Nvidia's H200 GPUs at just 1/100th the cost. If true, this could flip the AI market on its head. Meanwhile, in health AI, an at-home saliva test can now detect cancer with over 90% accuracy! and an AI-designed drug for inflammatory bowel disease is marching into human trials. But that's not all – an AI algorithm has managed to slash sepsis mortality by 17%. And, for those who enjoy a bit of AI doom-and-gloom, Ameca, the humanoid robot, predicts ‘how humanity will end’ (or not).

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