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🔥 Music recommendation system using transformer models
Google Research introduces a Transformer-based music recommendation system that adapts to user context for improved personalization.

🔥 AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
AI companies are shifting focus from ambitious models to practical products, addressing challenges for commercial success.

🔥 LLMs know more than what they say
LLMs possess latent knowledge that can enhance evaluation accuracy and efficiency, improving hallucination detection without extensive fine-tuning.

Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM
Ollama adds tool calling support for models like Llama 3.1, enabling complex tasks through functions, APIs, and web browsing.

Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let an AI bot run Cheyenne
Wyoming mayoral candidate Victor Miller proposes using an AI bot, VIC, to govern Cheyenne, sparking regulatory and ethical debates.

Show HN: Automated lead gen generator for SaaS
A new data scraping tool helps SaaS companies target leads by analyzing negative sentiments towards competitors.

Show HN: Hotshot – 4 Person Team Builds a State of the Art Video Model
A 4-person team developed Hotshot, a cutting-edge text-to-video model, achieving superior results in prompt alignment and motion.

What comes after the AI crash?
The AI bubble is set to burst, raising concerns about lasting harms and the need for proactive measures post-crash.

An open source Claude Artifacts – generate small apps with one prompt
Open source Claude Artifacts enable app generation with a single prompt, utilizing Llama 3.1 405B technology.

Podman Desktop 1.12: Remote access, macOS native GPU support and AI Lab
Podman Desktop 1.12 introduces remote access, macOS GPU support, and enhanced Kubernetes features, improving user experience.

Trump shares seemingly fake/AI pics of Taylor Swift – and Swifties are furious
Trump's AI-generated 'Swifties for Trump' images spark outrage among Taylor Swift fans, who demand legal action against him.

Show HN: Airstrip – An open-source platform to build and use internal AI apps
Airstrip is an open-source platform enabling easy creation and management of internal AI apps with role-based access control.

Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free
Google launches Imagen 3, a free AI image generator, offering high-quality outputs and improved prompt understanding.

The 6th Generation Waymo Driver
Waymo's 6th-gen Driver enhances safety and performance with advanced sensors, reducing costs and improving service in diverse conditions.

Show HN: FluxImage – An open-source platform image generation
FluxImage is an open-source AI image generation platform that creates high-quality images from text prompts using the Flux.1 model.

I Took a Ride in a 'Self-Driving' Tesla and Never Once Felt Safe
A ride in a 'self-driving' Tesla reveals alarming safety flaws, highlighting the technology's inadequacies compared to human drivers.

I switched to AWS Bedrock APIs for Claude 3.5 Sonnet to avoid daily token limit
Migrating from Anthropic APIs to AWS Bedrock for Claude 3.5 Sonnet helps bypass token limits and streamline integration.

AI doesn't know how or when to shut up
AI struggles to understand and incorporate silence in music and prompts, highlighting its limitations in nuanced creativity.

AI can reveal what's on your screen via signals leaking from cables
AI can decode screen content from leaking HDMI signals, raising security concerns, though risks for average users are low.

JPEG-LM: LLMs as Image Generators with Canonical Codec Representations
JPEG-LM introduces a novel method for image generation using LLMs by modeling images as compressed files, enhancing efficiency.

Show HN: Personalized Text-to-Video Generations for Learning
Animanic offers personalized text-to-video generation for learning, enabling users to visualize and discuss concepts interactively.

Show HN: Testing voice AI and listening to calls takes time, so we automated it
Elixir automates voice AI testing and call reviews, enhancing reliability and performance analysis for voice agents.

Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard v2 with User Contributed Data
Berkeley's BFCL V2 introduces a live, user-contributed dataset to enhance LLM function-calling evaluation, addressing bias and contamination.

Colleges Still Don't Have a Plan for AI Cheating
Colleges struggle to address AI cheating as instructors seek solutions while adapting teaching methods to new technologies.