📣 Hello everyone! Here’s the most exciting AI news from Week 45 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

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🖼 Flux image generator update. The new Ultra and Raw modes allow you to create photorealistic detailed images in high resolution.

🌳 The story of Flux. How did the German startup Black Forest Labs create a competitor to DALL-E and Midjourney?

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🎸 All our manuals on working with audio, voice, and music using generative AI. The best from 2024.

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🐶 AI-powered collar helps you talk to your dog. Texas-based startup Personifi AI has introduced a gadget for cat and dog owners: a "talking" pet collar called Shazam Band.

🧪 Scientists teleport smells using AI. A new technology from Osmo startup will allow sending scents via the Internet, like music or pictures.

🚕 EHang Holdings has received permission to conduct test flights of their air taxi in several Chinese cities. The company's vice president, Dong Wan, tested the first model, EH216.

👩‍⚕️ How doctors use AI. According to a BMJ Health and Care Informatics survey, about 20% of therapists in the UK use artificial intelligence tools in their daily work.

📱 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims AGI is achievable with existing hardware, though many researchers believe it's still decades away.

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🎤 At TechCrunch Disrupt, actor and AI investor Ashton Kutcher explained why he invests in competitors and why we shouldn't fear the AI revolution.

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🎸 The Beatles Make AI History with Grammy Nominations

The Beatles have made a groundbreaking return to the Grammy stage with their AI-enhanced song "Now and Then," earning nominations for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance nearly 50 years after their breakup. This historic achievement, reported by Business Today and Moneycontrol, highlights the band's innovative use of AI technology to isolate John Lennon's vocals from a decades-old demo tape.

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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 46 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

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🎅 Coca-Cola has remade its iconic "Holidays Are Coming" commercial from 1995. The new ad is entirely generated by AI and will be broadcast globally on TV.

📱 AGI might appear in 2025, admitted CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman. In a new interview, he also talked about his first business and advised startup founders.

🐱 MeowTalk: AI cat-to-human translator. The app recognizes your pet's meows and builds a unique 'vocabulary' for your cat.

🕊 Elon Musk will head DOGE — the new Department of Government Efficiency in President Donald Trump's administration.

🤩 New 3D bioprinter developed by engineers at the University of Melbourne creates tissue 350 times faster than existing models.

💬 Using ChatGPT as a personal diary can help you navigate conflicts in your family and workplace, as well as process your inner feelings.

💡 10 revolutionary AI tools by "Time." The list includes the Nobel Prize-winning AI model and the Runway Gen-3 text-to-video.

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✏️ Master logo creation with FLUX. AI-powered text-to-image tool is great for creating memorable logos.

👠 Shazam for fashion. Send the AI assistant a link to a post with an outfit you like, and it will show you where to buy those items.

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🎬 The "Here" movie by Robert Zemeckis in which an AI rejuvenates and ages Tom Hanks. According to the director, making such a film five years ago was impossible.

📱 Top 5 discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, actor Ashton Kutcher, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, and others discuss how AI is changing our lives.

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