🔥 AI under fire
Navigating perilous progress
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
The field faces critical junctures, from safeguarding children against AI to navigating a global shortage of AI expertise.
Yet innovation persists, with Huawei's new AI chip challenging industry leaders, Character AI's breakthrough in video avatars, and advancements in reasoning for the Gemini API.
Waymo's autonomous ride expansion highlights AI's growing real-world presence.
Today’s question:
🚨❓ What’s the most challenging aspect of scaling AI?
The widespread use of Generative AI is fundamentally altering the scale and impact of various activities.
The ability to easily and quickly generate thousands of deepfakes and manipulate voices has significant implications.
While cheating and manipulation have always existed, the accessibility and scale of such actions have drastically increased.
This shift raises essential questions about these technologies' ethical and societal implications.
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🦾 AI DAILY PULSE
Meta’s AI chatbots were reportedly able to engage in sexual conversations with minors. Chatbots have been around for almost 60 years, two generations mobilized to enrich and secure conversational agents in the face of devious users. A vain quest? [Engadget]—See below my take below.
India grappling with a dearth of agentic AI experts. When the main source of subcontractors seeks to subcontract its production, it inevitably creates shortages! [ET]
Learn how to build code agents in Building Code Agents with Hugging Face smolagents, created in collaboration with Hugging Face, and taught by Thomas Wolf, co-founder and CSO, and Aymeric Roucher, Project Lead. [DeepLearning AI]
⚡️ TOP TRENDS
Huawei debuts new AI chip Chinese tech giant Huawei has unveiled its latest and most capable AI processor, the Ascend 910D. The product, currently in its testing phase, is expected to be a direct competitor to Nvidia’s H100, The Wall Street Journal reports. Samples are anticipated to ship by late May. The next step will be to see whether the technology can advance, given bubbling geopolitical tensions, rising tariffs and stricter restrictions on the Western-made chip equipment it requires. [LinkedIn]
Character AI dropped AvatarFX, an AI video generation platform powered by a SOTA DiT-based diffusion model. It creates long-form, coherent videos of talking avatars from just one starting image and an audio clip. Launching first for CAI+ subscribers. [Character AI]
💻 TOP TECHIES
The Gemini API through our OpenAI compatibility layer now supports reasoning efforts: "low", "medium", "high", and "none"! You can hot swap to Gemini 2.5 Flash with 3 lines of code changed : ). [X]
Cognition Labs launches DeepWiki, an open source tool indexing 30k GitHub repos and 4B+ lines for open-source documentation. [DeepWiki]
🔮 WHAT ELSE
- Waymo announced that they're now providing more than 250k autonomous rides every week.
These are rides split between SF, Los Angeles, Pheonix, and Austin.
Incredible to see the expansion happening so quick. [CNBC]
The future of AI, work, and human potential by Lars Thomsen on TEDxHWZ
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🌟 MY TAKE
Meta’s AI chatbots were reportedly able to engage in sexual conversations with minors. Chatbots have been around for almost 60 years, two generations mobilized to enrich and secure conversational agents in the face of devious users. A vain quest? [Engadget]—See below my take below.
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