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The AI revolution is so exciting it brought Sergey Brin out of retirement. But it’s not all fun and innovation, some serious problems are bubbling up, like the fact that 170,000 copyrighted books were used to train models like Meta’s Llama.

• Google co-founder Sergey Brin unretired because “this AI revolution is just incredible. I’ve never experienced a time in technology and computer science as revolutionary as this, and I didn’t want to miss out." - The Verge
  
  
• Would you like to use all popular LLM services at once? Use GodMode, the open-source AI chat browser which lets you ask the same question to multiple popular chatbots including ChatGPT, Bard, Perplexity, Claude, and more. - GitHub
  
  
• Turns out writers were right – over 170,000 copyrighted, pirated books were found in the Books3 dataset, which was used to train Meta’s Llama as well as BloombergGPT. - The Atlantic
  
  
• 800 billion lines of outdated programming language Cobol continue to power critical systems in finance and government – IBM will soon release an AI coding assistant that might finally make it cheap enough to refactor them into modern Java. - TechCrunch
  
  
• ElevenLabs is out of beta – now anyone can try this generative AI suite that can generate voice in 30+ languages. - ElevenLabs
  
  
• Meta is releasing like crazy – they will release an open-source code generating model soon, and they’ve already put out SeamlessM4T, a text & speech language translation model that supports over 100 languages. - The Information, Meta
  
  
• Using 3rd party LLMs in your company? You need to be proactive about risk management, and engineer Sandesh Mysore Anand has a detailed guide for you on how to do it. - Boring AppSec
  
  
• Explore the guidelines for responsible AI usage from 21 different news organizations. - Nieman Lab 
  
  
• AI-powered companions reduce feelings of loneliness for 95% out 257 senior New Yorkers who rarely have contact with other people. - Spectrum News 

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