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💰 Perplexity’s $42.5M publisher revenue program
🦾Plus: 👨🏻⚖️ Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI
Hey folks! Let’s get into AI craziness…
📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🎙️ Microsoft’s SOTA text-to-speech model
👨🏻⚖️ Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI
🤖Nvidia's new ‘robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499
🗳️ AI leaders fight AI rules
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn your ideas into live apps
🤯 6 new AI Tools
🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day
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Perplexity just unveiled a new revenue-sharing initiative that allocates $42.5M to publishers whose content appears in AI search results, introducing a $5 monthly Comet Plus subscription that gives media outlets 80% of proceeds. Publishers will earn money when their articles generate traffic via Perplexity's Comet browser, appear in searches, or are included in tasks by the AI assistant.
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Microsoft just released VibeVoice, a new open-source text-to-speech model built to handle long-form audio and capable of generating up to 90 minutes of multi-speaker conversational audio using just 1.5B parameters. The model generates podcast-quality conversations with up to four different voices, maintaining speakers’ unique characteristics for hour-long dialogues.

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, just filed a lawsuit in Texas against both Apple and OpenAI, alleging that the iPhone maker’s exclusive partnership surrounding ChatGPT is an antitrust violation that locks out rivals like Grok in the App Store.

Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor robotics chip module is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit. The first kits will ship next month. The chips will allow customers to create robots that run generative AI models. They can also be used for self-driving cars. The Jetson Thor chips are based on Nvidia's Blackwell graphics processor, which is also used in the company's current generation of AI chips and chips for computer games.

A group of AI leaders—including a16z’s Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman—have launched a $100M initiative, Leading The Future (LTF), to advocate against AI regulations in next year’s elections. LFT operates through a network of federal and state Political Committees (PACs) and advocacy groups that support pro-AI election candidates and counter policies that are seen to potentially stifle innovation.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
🤖AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk
⚡Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
🤖Google introduced a new multilingual upgrade to NotebookLM
🧪Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative researchers introduced rbio1, a biology-specific reasoning model
👀Brave uncovered a security vulnerability in Perplexity’s Comet browser,
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