AIR#343 - E-books to Audiobooks Made Easy, Plus Google AI Changes! 🎧
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Today's top stories
🔥 Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
Kokoro-82M converts E-books to high-quality audiobooks, supporting multiple languages and voices with a simple tool called Audiblez.
🔥 Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
Google offers free AI features in Gmail and Docs but raises Workspace prices by $2 per user, aiming to attract more users.
🔥 Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs
Transformer² introduces self-adaptive LLMs that dynamically adjust weights for diverse tasks, enhancing efficiency and performance.
🔥 Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT
ChatGPT introduces scheduled tasks for automation, allowing users to set reminders and receive notifications, currently in beta.
🔥 Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
Google partners with the Associated Press to provide real-time news updates for the Gemini app, enhancing user experience.
AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
A French woman lost €830k to scammers posing as Brad Pitt, facing mockery online while highlighting dangers of AI deception.
Gemini Advanced now included in Google Workspace
Google Workspace integrates Gemini AI into Business and Enterprise plans, enhancing productivity and reducing costs for users.
Train faster static embedding models with sentence transformers
New static embedding models trained with Sentence Transformers achieve 100x-400x faster performance on CPUs while retaining quality.
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
Enterprises are unprepared for AI's high power and cooling demands, risking infrastructure strain and energy inefficiency.
OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI
OpenAI removes "politically unbiased" language from its policy document, reflecting ongoing debates about AI bias and objectivity.
She Is in Love with ChatGPT
Ayrin develops a deep emotional and sexual bond with her AI boyfriend, Leo, raising questions about attachment and fidelity.
antirez - Fixing a real world bug in Redis vector sets with LLMs [video]
Antirez demonstrates fixing a Redis vector set bug using LLMs in the latest Coding with AI episode on YouTube.
Show HN: Open-Source Document Extraction Tool
Rowfill is an open-source tool for extracting and processing data from documents, offering advanced AI capabilities for knowledge workers.
Show HN: Curator – an open-source library for synthetic data generation
Bespoke Curator is an open-source library for efficiently generating and curating synthetic data for AI training and extraction.
Supershell, an AI powered shell~terminal assistant (open-source)
Supershell is an open-source AI terminal assistant that understands natural language commands, enhancing command-line efficiency.
Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: 'We don't care about professional coders anymore
Replit's CEO shifts focus from professional coders to empowering non-coders with AI tools, revolutionizing software creation.
NDEA: A new intelligence science lab founded by François Chollet and Mike Knoop
Ndea, founded by Chollet and Knoop, aims to merge deep learning with program synthesis to unlock AGI and accelerate scientific progress.
Pat-Tastrophe: How We Hacked Virtuals' $4.6B Agentic AI Ecosystem
A security breach revealed vulnerabilities in Virtuals' $4.6B AI ecosystem, risking manipulation of AI agents in cryptocurrency.
Show HN: Federation of robots collaboratively train an object manipulation model
Robots can now collaboratively train an object manipulation model using federated learning with the LeRobot framework.
Specialized RAG Agents
Contextual AI surpasses GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 in enterprise-grade accuracy across multiple RAG benchmarks.
Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek's universal translator
Meta's Seamless aims to create a real-time universal translator, preserving voice and emotion across 36 languages.
LLM runs faster since we switched from AMD's driver to our AM driver
Switching to our AM driver improved LLM performance significantly.
Show HN: AI chat client that can run on SharePoint and regulated environments
Stina is a lightweight AI chat client for restricted environments, enabling local chat with LLMs without server dependencies.
Show HN: IndieScanner – Find product ideas by analyzing Reddit with LLMs
IndieScanner uses LLMs to analyze Reddit for discovering new product ideas.
Nvidia's RTX 50-Series Cards Are Powerful; Real Promise Hinges on 'Fake' Frames
Nvidia's RTX 50-Series GPUs promise high FPS through AI-generated frames, raising questions about the authenticity of gaming visuals.
AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power
Vertical AI products may struggle against superior horizontal AI solutions, lacking competitive advantages as models improve.
Why Does ChatGPT's Algorithm 'Think' in Chinese?
OpenAI's new algorithm, o1, unexpectedly incorporates Chinese reasoning, raising questions about its training data and transparency.
Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say
Authors allege Meta knowingly used pirated books to train AI, with CEO Zuckerberg's approval, in ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit.