Sora’s shutdown could be a reality check moment for AI video
Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?
ai, Equity podcast, Media & Entertainment, openai
ai
ai, Artificial Intelligence, caching, data-science, KV Cache
The KV Cache. Every LLM Running Today Is Built Around One Number Staying Still.
What the K and V Matrices Look Like at Token 1, Token 2, Token 3. Until Now. With the Arithmetic.Continue reading on Towards AI »
ai, Machine Learning, math, openai, scalability
Ilya Left OpenAI.
November 2023. Ilya Sutskever voted to fire Sam Altman.Continue reading on Towards AI »
ai, ai apps, Apps, Bluesky, Social, social media, TC
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
ai, stanford
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
ai, Entertainment, Music, News, tech
Suno leans into customization with v5.5
Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It includes three new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models. In the release notes, Suno says that Voices […]
ai, Elon Musk, manuel kroiss, ross nordeen, SpaceX, Startups, xAI
Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI
All but two of Musk’s 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.
ai, AI Funding & Investment, AI-driven platform, capital markets, funding, funding round, Headline, Notch, Series A
Notch Raises $30M to Bring Production-Ready AI Agents to Regulated Industries
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Notch, an AI platform for regulated industries, announced a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing total funding raised to $45 million. The round was led by Headline with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jibe Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Phoenix Insurance. The multi-firm investment highlights the growing demand from regulated industries for […]
ai, TC
Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we’ve seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn’t disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than double…
ai, Creators, Report, tech, TikTok
Why can’t TikTok identify AI generated ads when I can?
I’ve been struggling to tell whether the ads appearing in my TikTok feeds have been made with generative AI tools. As someone who spends a great deal of time scrutinizing images and videos for the usual “tells” that something was synthetically generated, some of the promotions I’ve seen have definitely sparked suspicion. For several weeks, […]