🤥 Taylor Swift deepfakes used in Le Creuset giveaway scam

While AI models have tremendous abilities to translate languages, it is often still best to search and prompt in English as the most popular models today like ChatGPT are built based on Western languages.

For Asia where languages are fragmented across countries, there are no doubts that we need to improve or customize large language models for Asian markets or users to use.

Are we going to see more AI labs coming out of Asia like Sakana AI?

Affect You and Me

🤥 Taylor Swift deepfakes used in Le Creuset giveaway scam

Deepfake technology has been used in a new scam involving a fake giveaway of Le Creuset cookware, purportedly endorsed by celebrities Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.

The AI-generated videos, which ran on Meta and TikTok, imitated the celebrities' appearances and voices.

Users who attempted to claim the free set were instead signed up for a monthly $89.95 subscription.

Meta and TikTok have stated that such fraudulent ads violate their policies and have taken action against the perpetrators.

😥 AI is going to worsen inequality

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that AI could impact nearly 40% of all jobs, potentially exacerbating inequality.

The IMF suggests that AI could enhance productivity in 60% of jobs in advanced economies, but also replace key tasks currently performed by humans.

The IMF urges policymakers to address this "troubling trend" and establish comprehensive social safety nets and retraining programs for vulnerable workers to make the AI transition more inclusive.

📸 AI to catch drivers who throw trash out of car windows

AI-powered cameras are being installed on UK highways to deter drivers from littering.

The cameras, which will initially be rolled out in the South East of England, will automatically send images of offenders to enforcers, potentially leading to fines of up to £100.

The move aims to address increasing concerns over littering on the country's highways.

🛒 No more checking receipts exiting Sam’s Club

Sam's Club is set to replace receipt checks with an AI-based exit system across its 600 stores by the end of 2024.

The technology, developed by in-house engineers, uses computer vision to verify purchases, aiming to alleviate long exit lines and improve convenience.

🏰 AI to stop vandalism of historic sites

AI is being considered as a tool to combat vandalism at historic sites in Kent, England. Research indicates a rise in defacement at heritage locations.

AI could potentially link related offenses, aiding in identifying culprits by tracking and matching graffiti patterns.

This approach, supported by Historic England, could revolutionize heritage crime investigations through supervised machine learning.

🛍️ Google’s GenAI chatbot for retailers

Google Cloud has unveiled new generative AI (GenAI) products aimed at enhancing the retail sector. The offerings include a GenAI-powered chatbot, Conversational Commerce Solution, which provides personalized product suggestions to shoppers.

The company also introduced a distributed cloud edge solution for non-stop operations, even during internet outages.

The move demonstrates Google's aggressive push to attract GenAI customers in the retail industry.

AI Insider

📣 Microsoft’s answer to ChatGPT Plus

Microsoft has announced the availability of Copilot Pro, a new subscription service that offers advanced AI capabilities to enhance productivity and creativity.

The service is designed for power users, including creators, researchers, and programmers.

Microsoft is expanding the availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes, including small and medium-sized businesses.

🤝🏻 Vodafone and Microsoft sign 10-year strategic partnership

Vodafone and Microsoft have announced a 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI, digital services, and cloud solutions to over 300 million businesses and consumers across Europe and Africa.

The partnership aims to transform Vodafone's customer experience using Microsoft's generative AI, and scale Vodafone's new standalone IoT business.

Vodafone will invest $1.5 billion over the next 10 years in cloud and customer-focused AI services developed in conjunction with Microsoft.

🇯🇵 Tailor AI models to better suit for Asian markets

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI startup co-founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones, has raised $30 million in a seed funding round.

The round was led by Lux Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures.

Sakana AI aims to establish Tokyo as a prominent AI hub, similar to OpenAI's impact on San Francisco and DeepMind's on London.

“Asian languages are very under-explored because most large language models are developed for Western langauges”

🛡️ GenAI to write system breach detection and remediation scripts

Vicarius, an AI-powered platform that offers vulnerability detection and remediation tools, has raised $30 million in a funding round.

The platform uses AI to automate the discovery, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities.

It also launched a text-generating AI tool, vuln_GPT, which helps write system breach detection and remediation scripts.

AI Magics

📧 If you have 579 unread emails in your inbox

SaneBox is an AI-powered service designed to help users manage their email inboxes.

It identifies important emails and automatically organizes the rest, reducing clutter and helping users focus on what matters.

The service offers features such as automatic sorting of older emails, identification of news and mailing lists, and customizable folders.

⏳ This tool will save you 10+ hours in strategy research

Vizologi is an AI-powered innovation management software that helps users manage their innovation portfolios.

It searches, analyzes, and visualizes the world's collective business model intelligence to aid in strategic decision-making.

It offers features such as an AI-generated business model canvas, market exploration, competitive intelligence, and the ability to create and edit unique business plans.

🎬 Quickly repurpose long videos into short-form content

MakeShorts.ai is an AI-powered tool that automatically generates engaging short video clips from longer videos.

It offers features such as AI clipping, autofocus cropping, AI subtitling, and AI social captions.

The service is designed to repurpose video content for platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels.

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