In 2019 Elon Musk said “I think we will have fully self-driving cars this year”. In 2020 it was still “level five autonomy this year”. In 2021 it was “this year” and in 2022 it was “we’ll achieve full self-driving this year”. And last year in 2023 Elon Musk said “I think we’ll do [FSD] […]

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Last week OpenAI secured over $10 Billion, promising over $100 Billion in profit by 2029 which is roughly what Nestlé and Target makes each year. To reach those figures in five years OpenAI needs to provide something people value equally as much as food and clothes. AGI might be such a thing, and maybe this […]

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Wow this was a crazy week! Meta presented their $10,000 AR glasses as a result from spending over $46 billion on the Metaverse since 2019, OpenAI finally rolled out Advanced Voice Mode, and Duolingo introduced numerous AI powered features! Two weeks ago Youtube announced automatic audio dubbing, and this week Facebook took it one step […]

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If you live outside the EU and UK, everything you have ever written and posted to LinkedIn has now been used by LinkedIn and their affiliate partners to train new AI models, and there is nothing you could have done to prevent this. Last week LinkedIn quietly announced that they have trained new AI models […]

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Thanks to Google Audio Overviews, you can now listen to this weekly newsletter as a podcast! If you have not yet experienced Audio Overviews, prepare to have your mind blown! 🤯 In fact, if you have limited time, skip reading this altogether and spend just 1 minute listening to the beginning of this podcast. It’s […]

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On December 11, 2020, Pfizer announced their first vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine had been developed in less than a year, setting a new standard for vaccine development where vaccines under “normal” circumstances can take up to 10-15 years to make. Last week Google DeepMind announced AlphaProteo, a groundbreaking AI system that can design custom […]

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It has finally happened! We are now at the point where a large language model can generate code that is of such high quality that it is no longer beneficial to write the code yourself, no matter how good your skills are. I have written several apps in Node and Python the past week with […]

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Wow, what a crazy AI week it has been! Among the top news are OpenAI who just announced free (!) fine-tuning of GPT-4o until September 23, Ideogram 2.0 image generator with amazing text rendering, Meshy-4 the amazing image-to-3D model generator, and Lumalabs Dream Machine 1.5. On top of that we have an AI powered mosquito […]

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Four years ago on August 13, 2020, Epic Games released a hotfix for their popular game Fortnite on Android and iOS. The “hotfix” enabled a new purchasing options for VBUCKS (the in-game currency) that bypassed Google Play and App Store, meaning Epic Games would pay zero revenue share to Apple and Google. Both Apple and […]

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Would you trust a robot to fix your dental issues? Maybe I am the minority, but I would definitely try it, especially if it could significantly reduce the time you need to sit still in that chair while someone is drilling in your mouth. Dental-robots are coming, and you can read more about it below. […]

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