📣 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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🟠 Dune: Space Game of Thrones

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, HBO's new series "Dune: Prophecy" is drawing comparisons to "Game of Thrones" and "House of the Dragon" for its focus on political intrigue and power struggles in a fantastical setting. While set in the expansive sci-fi universe of Frank Herbert's "Dune," the show's emphasis on scheming noble houses and organizational control over civilization has led some critics to dub it "'Game of Thrones' in space."

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🟠 Chinese Mars Rover Finds Signs of Ancient Ocean Shoreline

China's Mars rover, Zhurong, has made an exciting discovery: evidence that suggests an ancient ocean shoreline once existed on Mars. This finding comes from the planet's northern hemisphere. Reports from the Tianwen-1 mission indicate that about 3.5 billion years ago, there may have been a coastline on Mars. This discovery could change how we understand Mars's history and its potential to have once supported life.

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✍️ AI Poetry Outperforms Humans

A recent study published in Nature Scientific Reports reveals that readers not only struggle to differentiate between AI-generated poems and those written by renowned poets but often prefer the AI-created verses. This challenges long-held assumptions about human creativity and the role of AI in poetry.

Researchers identified a phenomenon they call the "more human than human" effect in AI-generated poetry. Participants consistently rated AI poems higher in qualities like rhythm, beauty, and emotional clarity compared to human-authored work.

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💻 OpenAI's Musk Control Fears

According to newly revealed emails from OpenAI's early days, co-founders Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman expressed serious concerns about Elon Musk's desire for control over artificial general intelligence (AGI), highlighting the tensions that shaped the company's tumultuous beginnings.

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