Today’s Story

Yahoo recently launched a bevy of AI features across its apps and media properties.

These most notably include: AI-powered features for Yahoo Mail (including its own version of Gmail’s Priority Inbox and AI email summaries) as well as an AI-powered version of its Yahoo News app, leveraging technology from its acquisition of Artifact 

As a reminder, Artifact was the “news discovery platform” founded by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom.

As Yahoo put it, “Yahoo was one of the first to combine human and algorithmic curation of news,” and now, with the acquisition and revamp of the news app, they will be taking this recommendation engine to a new level.

Yahoo will also be piloting AI content summaries for news stories, similar to how Google is generating AI-driven search results to questions themselves, signaling that Yahoo intends to become a platform that uses AI as opposed to a publisher that sells content into model training deals.

Headlines

• OpenAI Adds Former NSA Chief to its Board (AX)- Perhaps not a surprise, but more a reminder of the security and geopolitical balancing act developing large scale AI models involves.

• AI Uses Tons of Copper (WSJ)- The same Supplies Needed for Green Transition in fact. The data center boom is here to stay.

• AI Art Contest Winner was In fact a Human (AT) - Funny yes, but also an interesting moment in the AI era. “Humans pretending to be machines isn't exactly a victory for the creative spirit.”

• Using ECG AI to Find the Cardiac Amyloidosis (CB) - “The next frontier is clear: we must move beyond the retrospective and carry out the essential clinical trials” Medicine is one of the fastest changing industries as a result of new AI tooling.

Research

Gen AI Video by Luma Labs

• Driving the news: Luma Labs, a startup focused on generative AI, has recently launched a powerful new AI system called Dream Machine that can generate high-quality videos based on simple text prompts.

• The key features of Dream Machine include incredibly fast video generation (120 frames in 120 seconds), realistic and consistent motion, better character consistency, and natural camera movements.

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