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Our 124th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter
• (01:30) News Preview
• Tools & Apps
  • (03:26) Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
  • (08:31) Adobe is adding AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop
  • (12:26) Bing is now the default search for ChatGPT
  • (14:10) Google’s new Magic Editor uses AI to totally transform your photos
  • (16:14) OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
  • (18:00) Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI
• Applications & Business
  • (19:00) Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet + Nvidia Chip King's Fortune Doubles This Year to $27.3 Billion on AI Boom
  • (22:27) VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think  
  • (25:54) Amazon is focusing on using AI to get stuff delivered to you faster 
  • (28:24) Self-driving car startup Haomo.ai unveils low price delivery robot
  • (30:30) Uber to offer autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services using Waymo’s robotaxis
  • (32:12) Intel Announces Aurora genAI, Generative AI Model With 1 Trillion Parameters
  • (33:07) Meet Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for work
• Projects & Open Source
  • (35:19) Latest moves show Stability AI is fully committed to open source — well, mostly  +  Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio
  • (38:48) GPTeam: Collaborative AI Agents 
  • (41:37) Bard API
  • (43:13) Google’s open-source AI tool let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face
  • (44:22) Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source
• Research & Advancements
  • (45:54) InstructBLIP: Towards General-Purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning
  • (49:05) New AI research lets you click and drag images to manipulate them in seconds
  • (51:20) Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans 
  • (54:03) Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages
  • (56:12) Meet VideoChat: An End-to-End Chat-Centric Video Understanding System Developed by Merging Language and Visual Models
  • (59:35) Machine learning reveals sex-specific Alzheimer's risk genes
  • (01:00:56) LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
• Policy & Safety 
  • (01:06:25) Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Steps to Advance Responsible AI
  • (01:11:46) AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?
  • (01:18:55) Israel aims to be ‘AI Superpower’, advance autonomous warfare 
  • (01:20:00) 'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud
  • (01:21:35) AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:24:41) Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media
• (01:28:44) Outro

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We're back to our bread and butter this week with lots of tech news to discuss! While Andrew is vacationing in the mountains of the west coast, David Imel joins Marques to discuss the Windows 11 features they like most, and a few they don't. Plus, they talk about the new Sony Xperia 1 III, dancing robots, and Patreon's unique place in the Creator Economy.  Links: Subscribe to the pod & share with friends: http://bit.ly/WaveformMKBHD Subscribe to the pod on YouTube for full videos: https://bit.ly/WVFRMPodcastYouTube https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://twitter.com/AdamLukas17 https://twitter.com/DurvidImel  https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ shop.mkbhd.com Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Decoder interview w/Jack Conte: https://bit.ly/3AmgUPF  Boston Dynamics: https://bit.ly/363Lujc  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior editor Tom Warren about leaks of Microsoft's Windows 11 UI and announcements from E3 2021. Verge politics reporter Makena Kelly explains how Republicans and Democrats are gearing up to fight tech monopolies. Verge managing editor Alex Cranz joins the show to talk about Google's updates to Messages and a bunch of gadget news from this week. Further reading: Amazon’s COVID-19 test is now available to consumers Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective Pharma is winning the big business popularity contest Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more Microsoft Teams’ new front row layout arrives later this year Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now doubles as the company’s chairman Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud ... Microsoft is bringing next-gen Xbox games to the Xbox One with xCloud Even the Xbox app has stories now The Xbox Series X mini fridge will be available this holiday season Microsoft Flight Simulator is landing on Xbox Series X / S consoles on July 27th The best trailers of E3 2021 Tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan will officially lead the FTC How Republicans and Democrats are gearing up to fight tech monopolies House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to unwind tech monopolies Senate bill would make it easier to cancel a subscription online after a free trial  Google’s first retail store opens this week Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Honor confirms Google’s apps will return to its phones with new 50 series Beats Studio Buds review: big ambition, imperfect execution Ikea and Sonos announce picture frame speaker, coming July 15th for $199 Watch the debut of Tesla Model S Plaid, the ‘quickest production car ever made’ The Realme GT lays claim to OnePlus’ ‘flagship killer’ mantle Oppo’s rollable concept phone is pure potential lacking polish Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices