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🥟 Chao-Down #273 Adobe launches its own AI assistant, OpenAI can't register "GPT" as a trademark, Creatives demand answers to what data OpenAI's video model Sora was trained on

Plus, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says that AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage.

Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI can’t register ‘GPT’ as a trademark — yet (The Verge)

What was Sora trained on? Creatives demand answers. (Mashable)

AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers (Ars Technica)

AI can restore the middle-class jobs lost to automation (qz.com)

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (gizmodo.com)

Adobe launches AI assistant that can search and summarize PDFs (CNBC)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

A search engine in 80 lines of Python (alexmolas.com)

It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load you need to understand first (substack.com)

How Amazon Streams Live Video to Tens of Millions of People (quastor.org)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

astral-sh/uv: An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. (Github)

karpathy/minbpe: Minimal, clean, code for the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm commonly used in LLM tokenization. (Github)

sherlock-project/sherlock: 🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Rethinking Optimization and Architecture for Tiny Language Models (arxiv)

Read to Play (R2-Play): Decision Transformer with Multimodal Game Instruction (arxiv)

EvanZhuang/MetaTree: Official implementation of MetaTree: Learning a Decision Tree Algorithm with Transformers (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Why walking around in public with Vision Pro makes no sense (Ars Technica)

The text file that runs the internet (The Verge)

How to fake a robotics demo for fun and profit (TechCrunch)

The Great Recession: Did It Actually Help Save Some Lives? (Bloomberg)

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling (The Guardian)

The dating app paradox: Why dating apps may be worse than ever (NPR)

One Last Bite 😋

Will Smith having some fun on AI-generated video memes: