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 Our picks 

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The White House's 'AI Cyber Challenge' aims to crowdsource national security solutions.⁵⁹⁷ DARPA, the US defence research agency has launched an AI challenge with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Defcon and OpenSSF to find vulnerabilities in federal software systems. There’s $20 million in prize money and $7 million in resources for small teams who want to compete. It’s a two-year development program, more deets in the article above.

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Vimeo launches one-take video creation⁷¹¹. Vimeo’s launching AI-powered editing features. One of them is Descript like video editing via text. You can remove filler words and cut video by deleting text. The others are an AI-powered script generator and a teleprompter on your screen while you’re recording.

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Stanford Smallville is officially open-source!^1,259 Smallville is a simulation of 25 AI agents living together in a world. These agents behave like humans—go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love.

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Custom instructions are now available for all free users of ChatGPT⁸⁹⁷ as well…except EU and UK 😭

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 From the community 

• Supabase Studio 3.0³⁶⁷ is released with big improvements to their AI SQL editor. You can interact with your SQL queries³⁶⁷ as easily as talking to ChatGPT. (disclaimer: I’m an investors

• Hyper-Realistic text-to-speech⁵⁰³ - Comparing Tortoise and Bark for Voice Synthesis.

• How to implement a paper⁴¹⁰ without crying.

• Using Open AI function in a modded Google Nest Mini.²¹⁰

• Joshua has made a realistic avatar⁸⁵⁰ of himself with high-quality video and fine-tuned audio. This is insane

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Rift³⁷⁰ - An AI-native language server for your personal AI software engineer.

• Jukebox Diffusion³⁰⁸ - An AI tool for conditional music generation. (blog on making it¹¹⁸)

• GPT LLM trainer⁴¹⁷ - Dataset generation and fine-tuning with GPT-4 to go from idea -> fully-trained model quickly.

• Smol-podcaster³³⁹ - Generate podcast transcripts, chapters, titles, and tweet ideas.

• Cambrian⁴³⁴ - Copilot for AI research.

• Hercule⁴⁸⁷ - AI-powered investment analysis and decision-making.

• Recast³⁶⁵ - Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos with AI.

• Spinach⁵³⁸ - Your AI scrum master.

• Medisearch³⁹⁰ - Direct science-based answers to medical questions.

• PlayHT 2.0^314† - Conversational text-to-voice AI model across languages with <1s latency.

• Fynt AI^339† - AI-powered finance teams with financial insights, reconciliation, reporting, and more.

 From the network 

• Getting creative with embeddings.²⁷⁴

• Business physics - Mental frameworks for evaluating technology companies¹⁸².

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• How AI is helping airlines¹⁹⁴ mitigate the climate impact of contrails.

• Weights & Biases lands $50M¹³⁰, valuing the MLOps platforms at $1.25B.

• A Bicycle for the (AI) Mind: GPT-4 + Tools³⁵⁷.

• AI engineer summit²⁰⁹ on 8th-10th October in San Francisco with top speakers.

• The AI boom has benefited²³⁸ from San Francisco - Sarah Guo.

• Making AMD GPUs¹³⁶ competitive for LLM inference.

• Supermarket AI meal planner app²⁴⁴ suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas.

• Claude Instant 1.2²²³ - Anthropic launches an improved version of its entry-level LLM.

• Is AI a threat to the world of fabric design?²⁴³

• Deepset secures $30M¹¹⁵ to expand its LLM-focused MLOps offerings.

• Researchers develop AI that can log keystrokes¹⁷³ acoustically with 92-95 percent accuracy.

• Amazon reverses course⁴⁷⁶ on ‘garbage books’ written by AI.

• Google’s redesigned Arts & Culture app includes an AI-generated postcards²¹² feature, Play tab, and more.

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