OpenAI Poaches Google Deepmind Researchers, Human Art Gets AI-Authenticated, & Australia Tells Kids to Get off the Internet 🛜

OpenAI is poaching 3 leading engineers from Google, according to new reporting from WIRED. The three researchers seemingly come in a package deal, as the trio reportedly work closely together leading research at Google DeepMind. – source

Google has released a private preview of Veo, a text-to-video model for hyperrealistic video. While OpenAI has previously released video projects created by its own internal generative video model Sora, the firm has notably not made any announcements around a similar public release despite initially promising to have released by end of 2024. – source 

Amazon announced a new set of foundational models under the “Nova” branding, which will be made available as part of the Amazon Bedrock model library in AWS. The firm announced 3 more general “understanding” models for various price points as well as content generation models for text-to-image and text-to-video. Check out Amazon’s first GenAI video: a fake ad for pasta. – source 

Dappier has been rolling out new data models via Datarade. Are you using Dappier to power your AI’s web search functionality with more accurate results? Leave us a review!

AI data-scraped summaries are “effectively rebrand[ing] your company’s messaging under a new authority established, owned, and managed by the content aggregators.”

• That was the major takeaway after our CEO sat down with digital strategist Shannon Swenson in Austin for a conversation around the future of content syndication and digital publishing. Check out his latest blog post for more on how publishers can embrace AI to combat data scraping, boost engagement and unlock new revenues. 

  A snippet from Shannon’s blog post ‘Boost Audience Engagement With A Branded “Ask Stack”’

Crazy stuff is going down in South Korea. President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unprecedented political move that was unanimously rebuked by the Korean National Assembly. Yoon Suk Yeol rose to power largely after helping to impeach a former President, following a maybe equally wild scandal involving cults, curses & shamans. But to Americans, he’s probably best remembered as the President who sang American Pie at the White House – source

Crazy stuff is going down in France. The nation is facing political turmoil (What else is new?), as far-right and far-left parties pursue a no-confidence vote to oust the nation’s centrist leaders. Should the no-confidence vote succeed, current Prime Minister Michel Barnier will have served the shortest term of any French Prime Minister. – source

Crazy stuff is going down in Australia. The nation passed a new law barring anyone under the age of 16 from participating in social media. Surely shielding the children will work. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Thank God the Costco Guys are American! – source

A Swiss auction house is the first to sell a piece whose authenticity is verified solely by AI. The auction house worked with Swiss-based AI image authentication startup Art Recognition, which charges a starting fee of $2,200 per artwork. – source