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🥟 Chao-Down #257 FTC opens inquiry on big tech deals with startups, AI therapy companions gain traction among lonely students, OpenAI updates GPT4, Deepfakes of Taylor Swift flood the internet

Plus, Google Cloud and Hugging face to allow for developers to build, train, and deploy AI models without needing to pay for a Google Cloud subscription.

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft Face FTC Inquiry on OpenAI, Anthropic Partnerships - (Bloomberg)

ChatGPT and other AI systems aim to "align" with human values, but which ones? (Axios)

X is being flooded with graphic Taylor Swift AI images (The Verge)

AI Therapy companion 'replika' gains traction among lonely students (news-medical.net)

Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI (The Verge)

OpenAI cures GPT-4 ‘laziness’ with new updates (The Verge)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

ashishps1/awesome-behavioral-interviews: This repository contains tips and resources to prepare for behavioral interviews. (Github)

Code LoRA from Scratch - Implement Low-Rank Adaptation for LLMs in PyTorch (lightning.ai)

The Rabbit R1 drove $10M in preorders thanks to great design (fastcompany.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

natolambert/interconnects-tools: Python tools for easily translating your blog content to podcasts & YouTube (Github)

Google’s new AI feature transforms you into a historical art piece (Creative Bloq)

aaamoon/copilot-gpt4-service: Convert Github Copilot to ChatGPT (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

OFA-Sys/DiverseEvol: Self-Evolved Diverse Data Sampling for Efficient Instruction Tuning (Github)

Prompt Highlighter: Interactive Control for Multi-Modal LLM (julianjuaner.github.io)

Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Loud Budgeting Is Helping Gen Zers and Millennials Save Money (businessinsider.com)

Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last (Nature)

The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024 (MatthewBall.co)

Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT (TechCrunch)

Parents Are Supporting Adult Children Financially and Emotionally (Bloomberg)

These Gyms Survived the Pandemic. They’re Still Sweating. (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋