🥟 Chao-Down #185 Meta's AI-generated stickers produce unhinged outputs, Domino's partners with Microsoft for AI-powered smart pizza orders, Inside Amazon's secret algorithm that jacks up prices

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Domino's® and Microsoft Cook Up AI-Driven Innovation Alliance for Smarter Pizza Orders and Seamless Operations (dominos.com)

Meta’s Deranged AI-Generated Stickers Include Waluigi with a Gun, Child Soldiers, Naked People (vice.com)

Anthropic in Talks to Raise $2 Billion From Google and Others Just Days After Amazon Investment — The Information

LinkedIn goes big on new AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales, powered by OpenAI (TechCrunch)

Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices (The Verge)

Google packs more artificial intelligence into new Pixel phones, raises prices for devices by $100 (qz.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The limited benefit of recycling foundation models (epochai.org)

Using LLMs for Search with Dense Retrieval and Reranking (cohere.com)

Optimizing your LLM in production (huggingface.co)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

sapientml/sapientml: Generative AutoML for Tabular Data (Github)

Introducing the LLM Mesh: A Common Backbone for Generative AI Applications (dataiku.com)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

mit-han-lab/streaming-llm: Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks (github.com)

Announcing our Multimodal AI Assistant, Yasa-1, a language assistant with visual and auditory sensors that can take actions via code execution. (Reka AI)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Spotify is giving paid subscribers 15 hours of audiobook listening per month - The Verge

Seattle-based startup makes 'beanless coffee' to help combat deforestation | Reuters

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens | WIRED

The Age of Social Media Is Changing and Entering a Less Toxic Era (Business Insider)

China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. (The New York Times)

One Last Bite 😋