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Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli: ‘I’m very good at slapping stuff together’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/synthesia-ceo-victor-riparbelli-interview-brunch/
A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research that
Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post.
Week in Review: X CEO Linda Yaccarino steps down Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a shakeup at X, Hugging Face’s new robot, new phones from Nothing and Samsung, and a whole lot more. Have a great weekend! Off to
xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grok’s
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