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News roundup

The top stories in AI today.

NEW LAUNCHES

The latest features, products & partnerships in AI

• Zoom rolls out enhanced AI assistant for better meetings

• Otter.ai expands transcription to 2 new languages, with more on the way

• Google launches AI text detector to spot synthetic content

• Runway’s ‘Act One’ AI tool transfers facial expressions from real videos into animated characters

• Cohere just gave the power of vision to its RAG search offering

• McAfee and Yahoo form alliance to combat deepfakes

IMPLEMENTATION

Announcements, strategies, predictions & tools

• These key infrastructure hurdles must be solved to unlock enterprise AI adoption

• Microsoft’s autonomous AI agents are here — what will it mean for your job?

• AI in the workplace: productivity booster or the cause of burnout?

• AI shapes Gartner’s top 10 tech predictions for 2025

• AI adoption is surging while data quality is plummeting, new report finds

• Code generation tops list of most productive AI uses cases, data suggests

GOVERNMENT

Press releases, regulation, defense & politics.

• AI regulation risks EU market competitiveness, Macron warns

• China hawks clash over AI policy, imperiling US AI dominance

• AI chatbot company Character.AI sued after teen’s suicide

• ABBA, Radiohead among creative groups who sign AI protest letter

• AI’s energy impact and the urgent debate we’re ignoring

ART

Exhibits, awards & sales

• Sotheby’s to make history with auction of first robot-created artwork

• AI art: The end of creativity or the rise of a new class of artists?

• Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Prize for art that integrates AI

• Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for AI-focused installation

• AI-generated art takes center stage at Frieze London

What’s happening in AI right now

The art world's AI awakening

Sotheby's made headlines this week with plans to auction the first artwork created by a humanoid robot - a portrait of Alan Turing expected to fetch up to $180,000. The piece by Ai-Da, developed by UK art dealer Aidan Meller, represents more than just a novel auction lot. It signals a broader transformation as artificial intelligence moves from an experimental tool to a legitimate creative force in the art world.

The new creative class

The auction comes amid a surge of AI integration across the art landscape. Dana-Fiona Armour recently won the inaugural Sigg Art Prize for her AI-powered video installation exploring future ecology. Major institutions like Frieze London are prominently featuring AI and digital works. Even traditional art hub London is positioning itself as a global center for digital art, leveraging its unique blend of historical significance and technological innovation.

The creative tension

However, this artistic evolution isn't without controversy. Thousands of artists recently signed a protest letter against the unauthorized use of their works to train AI systems. The Authors Guild has launched legal action over copyright concerns. These disputes highlight a fundamental tension: AI's creative potential versus artists' intellectual property rights.

Beyond binary thinking

The debate around AI art often falls into an oversimplified binary: Will machines replace human artists or simply augment them? The reality emerging from the field suggests a more nuanced future. When the Sigg Art Prize jury included both human experts and an AI created by artist Grégory Chatonsky, it modeled a potential way forward - one where artificial and human intelligence collaborate rather than compete.

Looking ahead

The key question isn't whether AI will transform art - that's already happening. The real question is how we'll shape that transformation to enhance rather than diminish human creativity. Much like photography's emergence in the 19th century, AI's integration into art could expand rather than contract creative possibilities. However, achieving that positive outcome requires thoughtful engagement from all stakeholders.

The future of creativity likely lies not in human versus machine, but in human plus machine - a collaboration that could unlock new forms of artistic expression we've yet to imagine. Like Ai-Da's portrait of Turing, it's a future that honors our technological heritage while pushing into uncharted creative territory.

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This week on the podcast

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AI events

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