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Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey has arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full-length film he promised. Grok Imagine, the video tool behind it, posted the episode on X on 23 October. Wonder Studios, a London-based startup, made it with the US director Dev Walker.
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Instead of hitching a ride on the AI bandwagon, sometimes it’s quicker to just get out and walk.
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a world model that builds photorealistic worlds in real time. They come with sound, and with characters that speak. It opened to trusted testers as a research preview on 27 October, the lab said in a blog post.
Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.
The proposed ban is also designed to shield social media users from content that promotes harmful content including misogyny, terrorism, and suicide.
It’s unclear when or how the Echo Studio with Home Camera starts analyzing your room – or whether you’ll need to opt in first.
Agents found a way in through third-party business software, but Anthropic is saying its bug bounty rules were broken.
Revolut customers are reporting that they cannot log in to their personal accounts. The problems come eight days after an earlier outage left users unable to use the app or their cards. The bank’s status page listed sign-in as “partially unavailable” from 16:22 CET (15:22 UK time) on 28 October.
Machenta, a London robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London, has raised a $40M seed round. It is building an AI model that teaches robots a new task from a single demonstration. Creandum and Union Square Ventures co-led the round, Imperial said on 27 October.
Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann, who co-leads its Labs team, out of the founder group that will control the company after it lists. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospectus, filed on 26 October, says Mann is “often referred to as a co-founder”.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella no longer believes AI alignment will come just from making models more capable. He said so on a new episode of the 20VC podcast. Host Harry Stebbings had asked what he had changed his mind about in the past year.
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