🎭 ByteDance's New AI Can Clone You From a Single Photo

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If you thought the AI world was moving fast before, grab your coffee because today's digest is about to make your head spin. From deepfake breakthroughs that'll make you question reality to Apple finally joining the AI party (in its own unique way), we've got a lot to unpack. Let's dive into today's not-so-artificial intelligence news!

🎭 Deep(fake) Trouble: ByteDance Just Made AI Avatars Too Real

Remember when spotting a deepfake was easy? Those days are officially over. ByteDance's new OmniHuman-1 system is raising eyebrows (and concerns) with its ability to create ultra-realistic videos from just a single image and audio input. The kicker? It can handle everything from cartoons to complex human poses while maintaining perfect style-specific motion.

The nuts and bolts:

• Trained on a massive 19,000 hours of video

• Can generate videos of any length and style

• Adjustable body proportions and aspect ratios

• Can modify existing footage

While ByteDance isn't releasing it publicly (thank goodness?), the implications are clear: we're entering an era where "seeing is believing" might need a serious update.

🍎 Apple's AI Party Planner: Better Late Than Never?

Apple just crashed the AI party with "Invites," their first standalone AI app. And surprisingly, they're playing nice with non-Apple users (we know, we're shocked too).

What's cooking:

• AI-generated custom images and text for invitations

• Integrates Photos, Music, Maps, and Weather into one portal

• Free to download (yes, really!)

• Non-Apple users can RSVP and share photos

Is this Apple's way of saying "we do AI too"? Maybe. But remember: this is the company that made us wait for copy-paste on iPhones and then made it perfect.

🔬 Cancer Detection Gets an AI Boost (Finally Some Good News!)

Johns Hopkins just dropped AbdomenAtlas, and it's a game-changer. We're talking 45,000 3D CT scans with 142 annotated anatomical structures. In human terms? They just did 2,500 years of work in two years.

The impressive stats:

• 36x larger than any similar dataset

• 500x faster organ annotation

• 10x faster tumor identification

• Combines data from 145 hospitals worldwide

The best part? They're making it public. Because saving lives > keeping data private.

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🤝 SoftBank + OpenAI = Cristal Intelligence (And $3B/Year!)

SoftBank just went all-in on OpenAI with a $3 billion annual commitment and launched 'Cristal Intelligence' for the Japanese market. Talk about betting big on AI!

The big moves:

• $3B annual investment across SoftBank subsidiaries

• Exclusive Japanese access to specialized ChatGPT

• Custom enterprise integrations

• Follows the $500B "Stargate" data center initiative

Is this SoftBank's play to dominate AI in Asia? looks at investment size Yeah, probably.

🫠 Plot Twist: Google Drops Its "No AI Weapons" Promise

In a move that's raising more than a few eyebrows, Google quietly removed its 2018 commitment not to develop AI weapons. The company's now talking about "democratic leadership in AI development" instead of explicit restrictions. Interesting timing, Google. Very interesting.

🌟 Beyond The Headlines

🤖 Figure's Big Move: Figure just dumped OpenAI and is teasing something huge in robotics. They're promising a major breakthrough in end-to-end robot AI within 30 days. (Getting our popcorn ready!)

🎯 Hugging Face's Power Play: Their new open-Deep-Research is giving OpenAI a run for its money with 55% accuracy on the GAIA benchmark. Plus, it can navigate the web autonomously. Not bad for an open-source alternative!

📊 Google's AI Report Card: Fresh off dropping their weapons promise, they've published their 2024 Responsible AI Progress Report. New protocols, new framework, same Google being Google.

🎵 Kanye's AI Album: Ye confirmed he's using AI on "BULLY." He's comparing it to autotune, but we're pretty sure T-Pain never needed neural networks.

🗣️ LiveKit's Smooth Talk: Their new transformer model cuts AI conversation interruptions by 85%. Finally, AI that knows when to stop talking! (Could we get this for some humans too?)

📄 Adobe's Legal Eagle: Acrobat's AI Assistant now helps decode legal documents. It's like having a lawyer in your PDF reader, minus the billable hours.

📱 Snap's Speed Demon: New text-to-image model generates pics in 1.4 seconds on iPhone 16 Pro Max. Coming soon to a Snapchat near you!

🎯 OpenAI's Mini Marvel: The new o3-mini AI model patches o1 on ARC-AGI-1 while being 100x cheaper. Smaller, better, faster, stronger!

🔮 Microsoft's Think Tank: Their new Advanced Planning Unit (APU) is studying AI's impact on society, health, and work. Because someone needs to think about the future while everyone else is building it.

💻 Mastery tools of the day

• Geospy AI - Finds the location from any photo by analyzing its pixels

• Tana - An AI-native workspace that turns notes into work tasks

• OpenAI Kit - A free portal to in-depth research responses from OpenAI’s DeepResearch feature

• OpenAI Deep Research - A new ChatGPT Pro plan feature that does extensive web research and delivers detailed reports with citations

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

• OpenAI's Sora Filmmaking Tool Meets Resistance in Hollywood

• Our Brains Are Soaking Up Microplastics More Than Other Organs

• With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

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