AI News on December 24th
1. John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies
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These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
2. Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green
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Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. Green’s investment suggests Dazzle is poised for the coming wave of new AI-infused consumer businesses.
3. Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp
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The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.
4. Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
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Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
5. OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
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OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."
6. How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism
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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.” Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language mo...
7. Creating psychological safety in the AI era
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Rolling out enterprise-grade AI means climbing two steep cliffs at once. First, understanding and implementing the tech itself. And second, creating the cultural conditions where employees can maximize its value. While the technical hurdles are significant, the human element can be even more conseque...
8. Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI
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Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear that OpenAI or Google just dropped a new model, do you still get that buzz? Or has the shine come off it, maybe just a teeny bit? Come on, you can be honest with…
9. The fast and the future-focused are revolutionizing motorsport
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When the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship launched its first race through Beijing’s Olympic Park in 2014, the idea of all-electric motorsport still bordered on experimental. Batteries couldn’t yet last a full race, and drivers had to switch cars mid-competition. Just over a decade later, Formula...
10. A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype
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Each time you’ve heard a borderline outlandish idea of what AI will be capable of, it often turns out that Sam Altman was, if not the first to articulate it, at least the most persuasive and influential voice behind it. For more than a decade he has been known in Silicon Valley as a world-clas...