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ElevenLabs’ AI voice generation ‘very likely’ used in a Russian influence operation

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Generative AI has a plethora of well-documented misuses, from making up academic papers to copying artists. And now, it appears to be cropping up in state influence operations. One recent campaign was “very likely” helped by commercial AI voice generation products, including tech publicly released by the hot startup ElevenLabs, according to a recent report […]

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YouTube’s new auto-dubbing feature is now available for knowledge-focused content

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YouTube announced on Tuesday that its auto-dubbing feature, which allows creators to generate translated audio tracks for their videos, is now rolling out to hundreds of thousands more channels.  YouTube first introduced its AI-powered auto-dubbing tool at Vidcon last year, which was only being tested with a limited group of creators. This tool could help

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A test for AGI is closer to being solved — but it may be flawed

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A well-known test for artificial general intelligence (AGI) is closer to being solved. But the tests’s creators say this points to flaws in the test’s design, rather than a bonafide research breakthrough. In 2019, Francois Chollet, a leading figure in the AI world, introduced the ARC-AGI benchmark, short for “Abstract and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial

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OpenAI’s Sora is launching today — here’s highlights from the first review

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Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, is launching today — at least for some users. YouTuber Marques Brownlee revealed the news in a video published to his channel Monday morning. Brownlee got early access to Sora, and gave his initial impressions in a 15-minute review. Sora lives on Sora.com, Brownlee said, the homepage for which shows a

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OpenAI’s Sora video generator might not be available in the EU at launch

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It appears that users in the EU and UK won’t get access to Sora — OpenAI’s video generation model — at launch. A newly published help page on OpenAI’s website listing the supported regions for Sora “on web and mobile” omits all EU countries. On the page, OpenAI notes that accessing Sora outside the territories

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The four startups from YC’s Fall batch that enterprises should pay attention to

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Notable Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator held a Demo Day for its inaugural Fall cohort this week. The 95 startups in this latest batch looked quite similar to recent YC cohorts in the sense that it includes many AI startups. If I did my math right, 87% of the startups in this batch are

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